GAB Awards London 2018

GAB Awards - Nominations deadline extended to Oct 15

Update:

The deadline for the receipt of Nominations and Biographies has been extended from October 5 to October 15 2019 (11.59pm)

You can nominate yourself or be nominated by someone else for a honour at the 21st Annual GAB Awards which takes place in:

Manchester on Saturday November 30 2019

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London on Sunday December 15 2019.

The GAB Awards was established by The Trumpet Newspaper in 1999 - to reward excellence among Africans and Friends of Africa on the Continent and in the Diaspora who are contributing to the promotion of the positive image of Africa and Africans. The excellence displayed by these, no doubt, enhances the positive image of Africa and Africans.

Criterion

The criterion for winning a GAB Award, broadly speaking, is to have contributed to the enhancement of the positive image of Africa and Africans in any part of the world.

As simple as the criterion sounds, there are numerous people who satisfy this criterion which means that the best of Africa’s Best are matched against each other to produce a high quality list of GAB Awards recipients. The GAB Awards is competitive, prestigious and highly coveted.

Award Categories

There are usually 8 – 15 awards given out at each event.

The GAB Awards categories cover most areas of human endeavour and we accept nominations from all areas of human endeavour.

As there are more than 15 possible areas of human endeavour that nominations can come from, we tend to streamline and shortlist the categories at the stage of drawing up Finalists. This means that you can feel free to nominate as many people as you wish from any area.

Some of the common categories are:

  • Accountancy, Banking & Finance
  • Beauty
  • Building, Construction & Property
  • Business
  • Charity
  • Communication & Media
  • Community Development
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Fashion
  • Future Leader & Youth
  • Governance
  • Health
  • Innovation
  • Legal
  • Life Time Achievement
  • Public Sector
  • Science & Technology
  • Sports

This list of categories is not exhaustive.

The Nomination Process

You can nominate yourself or be nominated by someone else for a GAB Award.

Nominations must be sent via email to gabawards@the-trumpet.com. It should contain:

a) The name of the Nominee.

b) The Award Category.

c) The Award Location - London or Manchester

d) The reason for the Nomination.

e) Contact telephone numbers and email addresses of yourself and the person being nominated.

f) Biography and Photograph of the Nominee which must be sent at the point of nomination or by the Nomination deadline.

There is a 3-stage Selection process in the lead up to the GAB Awards.

a) Nomination for a GAB Award.

b) Initial screening of Nominees to a shortlist of Finalists.

c) Announcement of GAB Awards Recipients from the list of Finalists.

Nominations Calendar

Deadline for the receipt of Nominations and Biographies:

Saturday 5 October 2019   - 11.59pm

Notification and Announcement of Finalists:

from Monday 7 October 2019.

Final Recipients announced at the GAB Awards Ceremony:

#GABAwardsManchester - Saturday 30 November 2019.

#GABAwardsLondon - Sunday 15 December 2019.

Good Luck!

Buy Tickets via our Office

* Nominees and Finalists have to purchase tickets to attend the Awards Ceremony.

* However purchasing a ticket is NOT a pre-condition to nominate or be nominated or shortlisted as a Finalist for a GAB Award.

* There are two main reasons for this:

a) Our budget is unable to cater for Complimentary Tickets for all Nominees and Finalists.

b) Getting Finalists to purchase their Ticket has reduced the incidence of non-attendance of Finalists and Recipients at Ceremonies.

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T: +44 (0) 20 8522 6600

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E: gabawards@the-trumpet.com