The CTA 25th Anniversary Awards Dinner 2011
Tuesday 15 March 2011, the Hilton Hotel, Manchester
The CTA Awards Dinner was first held in 2007 to celebrate and publicly acknowledge the hard work and dedication of community transport organisations across the UK. It remains the only awards ceremony focusing on the achievements of community-led transport solutions.
The emphasis of the awards has always been on rewarding excellence and promoting best practice in community transport service delivery and recognising ordinary people doing extraordinary things on behalf of their communities.
The event has evolved each year and we now approach a special 25th Anniversary Awards Dinner, which will be hosted at the Hilton Hotel in Manchester as part of the Access11 conference and exhibition.
We are very proud of this CTA event, which highlights all that is best about community transport from across the UK. We encourage you to enter and look forward to seeing you on 15 March.
The CTA gratefully acknowledges the support of all our sponsors, without whose funding and expertise we would be unable to run the CTA 25th Anniversary Awards Dinner.
The Awards Categories for 2011 are:
Best Rural Community Transport Organisation
Best Urban Community Transport Organisation
Community Transport Health Partnership of the Year
Best Transport Authority
Community Transport Social Enterprise of the Year
Community Transport Volunteer of the Year
MiDAS Driver of the Year
The CTA 25th Anniversary Achievement Award
How to enter
Entry is free. You may submit entries for one or more categories provided you complete a separate application form and provide separate supporting evidence for each entry. You may self-nominate or nominate another organisation/person. If nominating another organisation/person please ensure the nominee is aware you have nominated them. Previous first-place winning projects will not be considered in 2011 unless the judges consider that there have been significant changes or developments within the past 12 months. Each entry must include:
• Nomination form: an official nomination form must be completed and signed. This should
demonstrate how the nominee meets the category criteria.
Prizes
All winners will be awarded a trophy and a certificate. All runners up will receive a certificate. Full details of winners will be published on the CTA’s website and in CTA Journal.
Submission and closing date
Nomination forms, more information about each category and full rules of entry are available at
www.ctauk.org or on request by emailing info@ctauk.org or by telephoning 0161 351 1475. It is essential that all entries meet the criteria set out for the category in which they are entered. When compiling your entry, therefore, please ensure you are as clear and unambiguous as possible.
Entries must at received (by post or email) no later than 5pm on Friday 18 February 2011. Please note that we do encourage early submission. You should submit your entries to:
Email: awards@ctauk.org or Post: CTA UK, Highbank, Halton Street, Hyde, Cheshire SK14 2NY.
How will the awards be judged?
The CTA will assess all applications against the criteria set for each award and will shortlist three finalists per category. An independent panel of sponsors and community transport sector experts will assess the finalists and choose the winners. The decisions of the judging panel are final. All finalists will be invited to attend the CTA 25th Anniversary Awards Dinner and will receive one complimentary ticket.