Warden Achievement Awards 2005

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The Warden Achievement Awards 2005 recognise outstanding work by Neighbourhood Wardens who enhance the lives of communities across the country. Wardens everywhere make a difference on the street, bringing varied talents to the whole range of jobs they do, from working with children, to building strong partnerships, safety and improving the environment. This award scheme has been set up to acknowledge these achievements.

Title: The Warden Achievement Awards 2005 - Guidance notes
Author: Neighbourhood Renewal Unit
Series: The Warden Achievement Awards
Number of pages: 12
Date published: June 2005

Neighbourhood Management and Warden Team (NMWT)

Now in its fifth year, the Neighbourhood Management and Warden Team (NMWT) has played a key role in the Government’s drive to solve the problems faced by people in deprived communities by helping to set up warden schemes in hundreds of neighbourhoods across the country. From an early stage, it became apparent that the warden concept was a huge success, not least because of the dedication, innovation and sheer hard work that individual wardens brought to the task. Through their friendly, versatile approach and ‘can do’ attitude, wardens quickly came to be regarded as both as friends and as an indispensable resource in their communities.

Since then, the annual awards have celebrated the real benefits that wardens, with their varied skills and talents, are delivering in their own neighbourhoods, local people solving local problems.

Awards significance

Neighbourhood wardens make a difference through an enormous range of tasks, by:

making the streets cleaner and safer
providing opportunities
good examples to children and young people
building strong partnerships
helping to make local services more accessible.

Their uniformed presence provides reassurance and a convenient, approachable point of contact that local people credit with delivering major improvements in the physical environment, community spirit and the liveability of neighbourhoods.

These awards honour the neighbourhood wardens who have excelled in particular areas of achievement, often dedicating their own time and even their own resources to the service of their neighbours.

These awards therefore serve to acclaim individual achievements that are both exceptional in their own right and representative of the contribution made by wardens everywhere.

Why Make a Nomination?

Celebrate and demonstrate appreciation for the work being done by wardens in your community.
Promote and share the good ideas and good practice that wardens bring to society as a whole.
Participate in a prestigious national event that offers your scheme publicity and cash awards.

The Warden Achievement Awards offer communities a great way to celebrate this contribution publicly. The awards also bring practical benefits:

Every award winner receives a cheque for £1,000 to be spent on the award winner's scheme.
Winners also have the opportunity to continue their professional development through training courses and exchange programmes included in the overall prize package.

Completing Your Nomination

Schemes often find that they get the greatest benefit when they involve the whole community in choosing a nominee. The nomination process may be led by a scheme manager, a colleague of the nominated warden or by member of the local community. Each scheme can make up to 2 nominations.

If you require additional nomination forms, please contact Kenny Mizzi on 020 7222 2176 or via email at nru@connectpa.co.uk.

All nominations are judged according to the awards criteria and not against each other.

Your submission should:

summarise why the nominated warden should receive the award
provide concise details about the nominee's background, working practices and any innovative activities, as well as his or her impact on the community in general.

Please enclose the following information when submitting your nomination(s):

Signed and completed Nomination Form – A1.
The Nominee and Scheme Manager must sign this form (where the Scheme Manager has been nominated the form should be signed by the Supervisor or Head Warden).

The Scheme's Testimonial Letter
This statement should be written by the scheme manager in the section provided in the nomination form. This page can be separated from the form, should you wish to type or attach any documents to it. The statement should be an overall description of why the nominee has been put forward for the Award. Where the scheme manager has been nominated for an award, the deputy manager or head warden should write the testimonial.

Letters of Support
A maximum of 3 letters can be attached to support the nomination. (Please ensure the authors sign and date their letters and explain their relationship with the nominee).

Additional Supporting Material
A maximum of 4 double-sided pages of A4 paper may be submitted, which could include press articles, examples of best practice and general information that supports the nomination.

Passport-size Photograph of the Nominee.
To be included.

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: Friday 15 July 2005

Please send all completed nominations to:

Kenny Mizzi
NMWT
Po Box 3380
London
SW1P 4WJ
Tel: 020 7222 2176
Fax: 020 7222 2677
Email: nru@connectpa.co.uk
www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

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