Queen’s Honours

Q.          If I appoint Awards Intelligence to draft my nomination, what happens next? A.         In summary:              Step 1 – Once you have chosen which of our four levels of service suits you best, we will email over a letter of engagement for you to sign and return if you are happy with it.               Step…

Q.           If the nominee has already been put forward for an honour is there any point in nominating them again? A.            Yes, as it shows to the Cabinet Office that more than one person has had the same idea to nominate the person at roughly the same time, which is a very positive thing.

Q.           Can you give me a comparison of success rates between your four levels of service?  Also can you do a bespoke package for me? A.            We prefer to not imply that spending more money increases your chances of success.  It is more about which service suits the nominee best in terms of the length of…

Q.           Is there any negotiation on your fees? A.            We set our fees as competitively as we reasonably can to enable us to deliver the highest level of service.  If we were to reduce our fees that would mean our consultants would need to spend less time on your nomination which would be in neither of our…

Right here on our Knowledge Hub! Feel free to look around. We hope you will agree that it is the most comprehensive resource available to anyone considering a Queen’s honour nomination. A good starting point would be this TV interview montage featuring the Awards Intelligence CEO, Mark Llewellyn-Slade: www.awardsintelligence.co.uk/knowledge-hub/queens-honours-process/

A highly-detailed and colourful account of your or your nominee’s achievements: Our approach differs from most applications in that we would treat your nomination very much like a national newspaper personal profile, whereas the tendency is to approach it like a CV which does not stand out to the judging committee. In summary our nominations are…

There are considerable regional imbalances and have been for many years, Yorkshire and Humber having the lowest proportion of people with an honour in England according the latest data I’ve seen. Here’s the full run down, courtesy of the Sunday Times: The reason London has the highest is no doubt because it tends to act…

Avoid these pitfalls and give yourself the best possible chance of success. As you would expect, honours committees judge a candidate’s merits only on the information provided to them. Therefore only the strongest nominations will be successful. You must provide enough information in the nomination to make a good case. So your nomination shouldn’t be:…