Winners of the 2004 Online Accounts Awards have been announced today.

They are: Weston Spirit; Young Minds Trust; St Anne’s Soho and the Second 1st Hurst Scout Group.

Hosted by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the awards recognise excellence in online accounts and annual reports, and are divided into four income categories: above £2m; between £500,000 and £2m; between £100,000 and £500,000; and below £100,000.

The judges were impressed with the clarity and transparency of all the winners, while Category A winner (income above £2m) Weston Spirit was commended for its “leading edge use of HTML”.

Each charity received £2,000 prize money at a special ceremony this afternoon, which was followed by a seminar hosted by the Charity Finance Director’s Group (CFDG) where Pesh Framjee, head of the non-profit organisations unit at Deloitte and special advisor to the CFDG, outlined the current fiscal environment affecting charity accounting.