Testimonials
The Association & Institutes Awards presents an opportunity for your work to be evaluated by industry experts, garner recognition from your peers, benchmark against competitors, and draw in new clients, customers, and top talent to your organisation. See what others have to say.
International Institute of Nutrition & Health
CEO
It's inspiring for a start. It inspires the team so that they realise they're doing something valuable when they get selected and it puts you up against other people that excel in their areas you know it's really important to match yourself like that I think
Law Society of Ireland
Head of the Diploma Centre
We were surprised and we were delighted. We didn't expect to win because the calibre was so high so we were absolutely thrilled. We were delighted to be chosen.
Learnovate
Head of Membership Services
Super chuffed to win the award. It's a huge validation of our membership model to win best membership services at The Association and Institutes Awards 2024
NAPD
President
We had no expectation of this at all but having said that we're delighted that it's been recognised what we're doing for our members and thereby for our students that we see every day of the week.
Insurance Institute of Ireland
Climate Risk Programme Manager
We're absolutely thrilled! We're very proud of this programme. There are only 36 of us in the Institute. The category we were in, there were 10 and they were tremendous so I was quite surprised actually. Really excited but it's great. It's great to see associations being recognised.
Woven Housing Association
Community Involvement Officer
Absolutely wonderful! Our publication is a newsletter for tenants so I feel like I'm collecting this on behalf of the tenants. They all contribute to the newsletter. I mean absolute honour to win and compete tonight. The sky's the limit for Woven as far as tonight's concerned.
Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists
CEO
Team were thrilled. We are a team-based organisation but we're very member-focused so I'm just so happy for the team, for our board, and all our volunteer members who are core to our member organisation. The calibre was so high. We knew we were in a very tight competition and this is really unexpected and a kudos to all our finalists.
Ireland (FSI) Group
Director of Financial Services & Chair of Ireland’s “Women in Finance Charter” Steering Group
We were very excited and delighted this is a joint initiative for trade association so I think it really sums up everything that the association awards are all about.
Restaurants Association of Ireland
CEO
I think events like this are extremely important for associations and institutes. The calibre of the contestants was extremely strong and quite privileged to win this award and I'm thankful to my team to be here tonight.
Dave Farrelly
Head of Membership Services – Learnovate
We are absolutely delighted to win Best Membership Services for the second year in a row at the Association and Institutes Awards. It's a huge value for us, for the sector, in terms of the research and innovation that we bring to the world of education and learning both locally and internationally. Really great competition, we were absolutely delighted to win tonight.
Niall Cotton
Chief Executive Officer - Freight Transport Association Ireland
Absolutely overwhelmed, we're really excited, it's a huge effort that's gone into this publication and I think it's brilliant recognition for all our team and for the partners that we've worked with over many years. Really happy to be shortlisted in the first instance and to be a winner tonight.
Aoife Kinsella O’Reilly
Business development and Marketing Manager – Hai Training & Development Services
We were absolutely stunned and delighted with the win tonight, it was a massive team effort over the years to deliver our training and development services to the hardware and building materials sector, but absolutely thrilled for it to be recognised. It's a fantastic way to recognise excellence in the delivery of services to members in any association and it's one that we'd really celebrate and encourage anyone to get involved in.
Paula Pinto
Programme Manager for Policy and Engagement - All Ireland Institutes of Hospice and Palliative Care
It's great recognition, you're up against great quality and it's a great way to get your own work recognised even if you don't win as a finalist, it's just a really big honour. Such range and different types of work but really high calibre so you feel like you're a winner just by being here today.
Susan Treacy
Chief Executive Officer– Healthtech Ireland
We were really delighted and humbled to win this award. The Association and Institutes Awards are really valuable because they acknowledge the work that all of these different associations are doing, bringing people together, bringing the community together, aligning on goals, supporting government, supporting the organisations, the sectors that they represent, so really, really valuable and delighted.
Louise Keegan
Membership Development Manager - Learnovate
I would recommend entering because it's a real value to showcase how much a team works together and it really showcases our team and the hard work we do to showcase Ireland for the future of work and learning.