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The deadline for entries to the 2009 Charity Times Awards has now closed.

The Charity Times Awards reaches a landmark tenth year in 2009, and this year's event will be bigger and better than ever.

The Charity Times Awards continue to be the pre-eminent celebration of best practice in the UK charity and not-for-profit sector and with 2009 being our 10th year, reputation of the event is higher than ever. Once again it will be at the Kings Nine Suite at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, on September 9.

The 2009 Awards include extra categories to reflect the changing nature of the sector. This year's Awards come on the back of the highly successful 2008 Charity Times Awards, which saw 450 people attend a highly enjoyable evening of surprises and jubilations. The judges confessed to looking at the strongest number of award entrants ever.

The awards recognise that it is the leaders within charities who are responsible for coordinating much of the charitable activity throughout the UK and as the engines of the charity sector, it is at this level that the Awards are targeted.

As such, the event itself is built around the individuals and teams for whom the Awards are intended: trustees, chief executives, directors and other upper-level management from not-for-profits across the UK.

Reflecting this belief, the Awards provides the charity sector with a dedicated event to reward the work carried out in difficult and competitive conditions, and establishes a unique annual congress of the pre-eminent figures in the sector at the premier charity event of the year.

Please click on categories at the top of the page to get a full list of categories, if you wish to nominate an organisation or an individual please enter the nominations section.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me, Andrew Holt, Editor of Charity Times on: 020 7562 2411 or andrew.holt@charitytimes.com.

I hope to see you at the the Awards evening in September.