Individual award
The Professional Service Provider of the Year honours a professional service provider who has significantly contributed to surrogacy or donation for Australians and impacted the community or industry.
The nominee must meet the eligibility criteria to participate in the award. The Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards aims to celebrate the contributions and achievements of people and businesses fairly and equitably. Each award has its eligibility criteria that must be met.
Eligibility criteria
Eligible professional service providers include lawyers, counsellors, insurance and finance brokers or anyone else who provides a professional service.
This award excludes fertility doctors, fertility specialists, and health industry workers. See Fertility Specialist of the Year and Health Industry Worker of the Year.
The nominee must ordinarily be based in Australia, provide surrogacy or donor services in their professional capacity in Australia, significantly contributing to surrogacy or egg, sperm, or embryo donation in Australia, and exceeding the community and industry expectations.
Nominees will be notified after nominations have closed.
The public will vote for nominees on the Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards website.
Nominees will be judged and shortlisted as a finalist. The number of finalists will depend on the quality and quantity of nominations.
Judges will decide the winner of the award from the shortlist of finalists.
Not all nominees will become finalists.
What you need to know about the judging criteria…
- The judging of nominees and finalists will be based on the information provided in the nomination form and the nominee nomination acceptance.
- Australian Surrogacy and Donor Awards reserves the right to transfer a nominee into another award category if it believes the nominee would be more appropriately assessed in that category.
- Judges will consider each nominee’s contribution and whether the nominee has exceeded the community and industry’s expectations.
Nominations open: Sunday 8 June 2025
Nominations close: Sunday 17 August 2025
Public votes open: Monday 7 September 2025
Public votes close: Thursday 9 October 2025
Finalist notification: Monday 13 October 2025
Awards event: Saturday 25 October 2025