ACE Awards Scheme

Over the last 12 months, the Association for Church Editors has been seeking out some of the best church magazines in the country. The 2009 Awards Scheme concluded with a presentation to the successful editors at a ceremony held on Saturday 16th May 2009, at the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. (Read Rev’d Martin Turner’s Keynote address).

Over the years the scheme has developed from a competition into a series of awards that are aimed at recognising the achievements of editors in the most important features that lead to a well-produced magazine.

The primary aim of the Awards Scheme is to celebrate excellence and, in so doing, encourage other editors, so that they might feel motivated to improve their own magazine in the light of what can be achieved through creativity, attractive design, improvements in technology and dogged determination (especially in the pursuit of enhanced funding and other additional resources!).

Awards Criteria

Separate awards were made according to six criteria:

Visual Appeal of Cover Design
Attractiveness of Overall Magazine Layout
Effective Use of Headlines, to attract readers’ attention
Effective Use of Graphics
Clarity in Communicating a Christian Message
Appealing to a Wide Community of Readers
(i.e., beyond a core group of church members)

The ACE Awards Scheme 2009 was open to anyone producing church newsletters and magazines, irrespective of denomination.

We hope to hold another Awards Scheme in the near future - probably dedicated to those editors working on a budget of less than £300 per edition.

Please keep an eye on this website for further updates.

The John King Trophy

awarded to the overall winner

Who were the Worthy Winners?

Church Magazines displaying fine examples of the awards criteria were presented by ACE Vice Chairman, Keith Milmer. To download a copy of his presentation, please click here>

(NB: this is a large pdf file, and may take a minute or two to download).

Or just to see the headline results, please click here>

Enquires about our next Awards Scheme:

ACE Awards

The Association for Church Editors

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