The Educational Leadership Awards are a free, national peer recognition programme for education leaders across the United Kingdom. We exist to make sure that the extraordinary people working in schools, under extraordinary pressure, holding extraordinary responsibility, are named, celebrated, and publicly thanked.

A national programme 
with a simple mission

 
Completely free
Free to nominate, free to enter, free to celebrate. Always.
Peer nominated and judged

Nominated by those who know you. Judged by those who understand you.

Every school, every setting

Open to all UK education settings regardless of phase, type, or PiXL membership.

26 award categories

Covering every kind of leadership across every phase and setting.