Wellness Advocate of the Year
Wellness Advocate of the Year recognises a business owner whose work advances physical, mental or emotional wellbeing through services, products, education or advocacy. It celebrates credible methodology, measurable outcomes and leadership that helps people make sustained improvements in their wellbeing.
Choose this category when: Your strongest story is improving physical, mental or emotional wellbeing through education, advocacy, services or programs.
Is this your category?
A quick read on the businesses this title is written for.
Operates a business within wellness, health, lifestyle or personal development.
Can demonstrate measurable improvements in client or community wellbeing.
Uses education, advocacy, services or programs to increase access, understanding or action.
Leads with professional care, credibility and a clear commitment to positive outcomes.
What judges need to see.
The five areas your answers are assessed against.
Foundation
Foundation: Wellness focus, audience or client group, methodology and purpose.
Results
Results: Measurable wellbeing outcomes and business or program performance.
Decisions
Decisions: Programs, delivery methods or educational approaches that improved outcomes.
Leadership
Leadership: Advocacy, education, professional practice and influence on behaviour or awareness.
Impact
Impact: Access, sustained wellbeing outcomes and the future direction of the entrant's contribution.
Evidence to start gathering
Start collecting these now so the writing is quick later.
Read the Evidence Pack guideClient or participant outcome data.
Wellbeing measures or survey results.
Program participation and completion data.
Professional qualifications, accreditation or methodology credentials.
Case studies with measurable change.
Testimonials describing specific sustained outcomes.
Education or advocacy reach linked to action or behaviour change.
Partnerships or community initiatives with documented results.
Entry details and eligibility
The format, the dates and the conditions that apply to this title.
- Assessment period
- 2024–27.
- Minimum business age
- 12 months.
- Written responses
- 5.
- Evidence Pack
- 5 pages.
1 January 2024 to 28 February 2027
Minimum 12 months in business as at 4 October 2026.
5 written responses, up to 400 words each.
One PDF, up to 5 pages and 10 MB.
Resources
Before you enter
Five short reads that answer almost everything. Each one opens the Entry Guide at the right place.
Evidence Pack guide
What counts as evidence, what does not, and how to lay the PDF out.
Full eligibility
The rules that apply to every title, including trading dates and locations.
How judging works
Who reads your entry, how it is scored and how finalists are chosen.
Build a strong entry
How to answer the five questions with specifics instead of adjectives.
Frequently asked questions
Costs, deadlines, multiple entries and everything else people ask first.
RAYE Awards 2027
Wellness Advocate of the Year
Entries are written and submitted in the RAYE Awards portal, a separate system to RAYE Haus. Read the criteria, gather your evidence, then head across.