The Charity Finance magazine, UK's best selling and leading provider of professional information for the wide charity sector, is organising and supporting this year's 'Charity Awards 2005'. The awards are open to UK charities registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales or with the Inland Revenue in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The annual awards is in its sixth year, and is designed to recognise excellence in the management of charities and outstanding achievements of all charities, small or big. The awards are decided by an independent panel of judges, all highly respected for their expertise in charities and management.

Representatives of the charities will attend the gala presentation dinner on 16th June at Battersea Park Arena with hundreds of senior figures followed by the presentations. It will be announced which organisation has won each of the ten categories such as arts-culture and heritage, children and youth, education and training, social care-welfare and religion.

This year, judges will also make a special award to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to excellence in charity management. Every category winner will receive a place on a week long leadership development course provided by the Leadership Trust as well as specially designed trophy.

Among the nominees are Age Concern Liverpool, the Royal Institute for the Deaf and the Samaritans, together with Macmillan Cancer Relief, which has been short-listed in the social care-welfare and religion category for its pilot benefits helpline and has been nominated for a major prize.