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Free award certificate template for Google Slides

A branded certificate recognising an award or achievement, generated one per recipient from your winners list.

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Automate this template Copy to my Google Slides How to use it

Free to copy, no sign-up: the file opens in your own Google Drive. Updated November 13, 2026.

The actual template Free award certificate template for Google Slides: preview of the first page

What’s in the award certificate template

Every block has a placeholder showing where your details go. Type over them by hand, or bind each one to a field in your data and let it fill itself.

  • Organisation lockup and award title {{award.title}}
  • Recipient name in display type {{recipient.name}}
  • Category or citation line {{award.category}}
  • Short citation text from the record {{award.citation}}
  • Award date and occasion {{award.date}} · {{award.occasion}}
  • Signature block and seal {{signatory.name}} · {{signatory.role}}

How to use this award certificate template in Google Slides

  1. 01

    Copy the template to your Google Drive

    Press "Copy to my Google Slides". Google asks to make a copy, and the copy is yours to edit; the original is never changed. All you need is a free Google account.

  2. 02

    Replace the placeholders with your details

    Text in double braces, like {{award.title}}, marks where your own values go. Work down the slides: organisation lockup and award title; recipient name in display type; category or citation line, and so on.

  3. 03

    Make it match your brand

    Swap the logo, colours and fonts in Google Slides as you would in any presentation. The layout is built to hold when the text changes.

  4. 04

    Download it as a PDF, or share the link

    File, then Download, then PDF Document gives you a file to send or print. Download as PowerPoint (.pptx) works too if someone needs it.

  5. 05

    Making these regularly? Fill it from your data

    Connect Airtable, Google Sheets or a CSV to SourceToDocs and it fills a copy of this template for every row, so you stop retyping.

An award certificate is a designed object with a name in the middle of it. The border, seal and typography are the whole point and never change; the recipient, category, citation and date change on every copy. Google Slides holds that design exactly, and each row of the winners list produces its own certificate in the same run.

One row per recipient, citations included

The awards that go smoothly keep results in one table: recipient, category, placement, citation, date. Generate from it and the certificates are correct because the sheet is correct — no retyping a name from an email at eleven at night. These are branded certificate documents rather than verifiable credentials, so there is no verification page, no Open Badges and no recipient analytics; what you get is a PDF set ready for the printer. Filter by category or placement to keep the print batches sorted in the order they will be handed out.

Fill this award certificate template from Airtable, Google Sheets or a CSV

Connect an Airtable base, a Google Sheets spreadsheet or a CSV file, map each field to a placeholder, and generate. One run can produce a single deck or one per matching row, delivered to your Google Drive.

Certificates & credentials: A branded certificate recognising an award or achievement, generated one per recipient from your winners list.

Winners · Google Sheets

RecipientCategoryPlacement
Marta NunesInnovationWinner
Tom AlvarezInnovationRunner-up
Globex TeamTeam of the YearWinner

Template: Google Slides or Docs

{{recipient.name}}

{{award.title}} · {{award.category}}

{{award.placement}}

{{award.citation}}

{{award.date}}

one certificate per winner row; filter by category to print each set separately

Generated output

SlidesPDF

Marta Nunes

Excellence Awards 2026 · Innovation

Winner

For rebuilding the delivery platform end to end.

18 June 2026

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Who uses this award certificate template

Awards and industry bodies

Produce every winner and finalist certificate from the results sheet the night the judging closes.

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HR and people teams

Issue recognition certificates across a company from the nominations list without designing each one.

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Schools, clubs and associations

Generate certificates for a whole prize list in one run and print them as a single PDF.

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Common questions, answered

Are these verifiable or shareable credentials? +
No. These are branded certificate documents — Slides and print-ready PDFs. There is no verification page a recipient can link to, no Open Badges or LinkedIn credential issuing, and no analytics on who viewed one. For awards that is normally the point: the certificate is a printed artefact handed over on the night.
Can I generate winners and finalists in one run? +
Yes. Keep placement as a field on the record, then either run the whole list at once or filter by category and placement so winner and finalist certificates print as separate batches. Late changes to the results are a data edit followed by a rerun.
Can I use my own award certificate design? +
Yes, and awards bodies usually must. Build the master in Google Slides with your seal, border, foil area and signature block, mark the recipient, category, citation and date as placeholders, and generate against that instead of this layout. If the certificate is foiled or printed on stock, design to the printer's template first.
Can each certificate carry its own citation? +
Yes. Put the citation in a field next to the recipient and it prints on their certificate. Keep it to a line or two: a slide is a fixed design, so the text does not reflow the page, and the citation length is best decided in the data rather than at print time.
Is this award certificate template free? +
Yes. Copy it to your own Google Drive at no cost and with no sign-up, then edit it like any Google Slides file. You only need SourceToDocs if you want it filled from your data automatically, and that has a free plan too.
Can I download this award certificate template as a PDF or PowerPoint file? +
Yes. Open your copy in Google Slides and choose File, Download. PDF Document gives a print-ready file; Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) gives an editable one for people who do not use Google Slides.

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