2023 ARA Handbook
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Why enter the Awards
Key Dates for the Diary
Get Ready for the 2024 Awards
2024 ARA AWARDS
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The Australasian Reporting Awards were introduced in 1950 and have been held every year for the past 73 years. Entries for the 74th Awards are now open.
The Awards are provided by Australasian Reporting Awards Limited, a small not-for-profit body run by volunteers. The Awards started as the Annual Report Awards to improve the quality of communication of organisations with their stakeholders in Australia. Subsequently, the Awards were renamed the Australasian Reporting Awards to include organisations in New Zealand. The Awards are now open to all organisations located in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Why enter the Awards?
The ARA Awards provide an opportunity to benchmark your reporting against world best practice criteria, and against the reports of similar organisations.
Organisations benefit by finding out how good their annual report is, and most importantly, how to improve it. Entrants can receive constructive feedback on their report from an ARA adjudicator.
N.B. The ARA assessment focuses on the quality and completeness of the reporting about the organisation’s behaviour and performance, not on its actual behaviour and performance!
Key Dates for the Diary
2nd October 2023 - Entries Open
You can either submit an entry online or by downloading a copy of the entry form and submitting it to ARA by mail or email. Click here to learn more about how to enter.
8th December 2023 - Entries Close
You must submit an entry form by the closing date. Reports may be submitted a little later (conditions apply). Please advise ARA if your report will be delayed.
31 January 2024 - Entries close for 31 December 2023 year end reports
Entries must be submitted by 31 January 2024 and the report URL must be received by ARA no later than 10 March 2024.
March 2024
The ARA judging process will commence in December 2023 and close in mid-March 2024.
April 2024
All entrants will be advised their results by email ‘in confidence’ early in April. Details of the gala Dinner to publicly announce the results and present the Awards will be included in the email.
23rd May 2024 - 74th ARA Awards Presentation Dinner
Public announcement of results - A gala Awards Presentation Dinner will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney to celebrate ‘Excellence in Reporting’.
Click here to view a photo gallery from the 2023 events.
24th May 2024 - ARA Annual Seminar on Reporting
The annual ARA Seminar on Reporting will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney. The Seminar will include sessions on what is happening in annual reporting, and practical ‘how to’ sessions on how to prepare an effective annual report.
April - July 2024 - Get feedback on your Annual Report
Feedback Sessions will be available online from soon after entrants have been advised their results ‘in confidence’ until 31 July. Face-to-face Feedback Sessions may be held in Sydney on 24 May 2024 during the ARA Seminar on Reporting. Visit the ARA website for more information.
