NOMINATION FOR CREATIVE & CULTURAL SKILLS

Training Provider of the Year Award

This award will celebrate Further Education colleges who epitomize Creative & Cultural Skills’ values:

Give young people opportunities to work and learn in the creative industries

Ensure that employers benefit from a skilled generation of talent

Help the creative industries continue on a course of economic growth.

Impact Arts (Projects) Ltd.Winner of the Training Provider Award 2015.

Jan Hodges,former CEO,Edge Foundation, presenting Impact Arts with the Creative & Cultural Skills ‘Training Provider Award’ 2015.

Please read the accompanying guidance notes (Page 8) before completing this form.

SECTION 1 – THE NOMINEE

I nominate the following person/team for the Creative & Cultural Skills ‘Training Provider of the Year’ Award:

Name:
Job title:
Organisation:
Address:
County:
Post code:
Telephone no:
Email address:
Website (if appropriate):

Information:

Please highlight those that apply to the nominated organisation.

The nominated organisation has less than 10 employees

The nominated organisation has 10 - 25 employees

The nominated organisation has over 25 employees

Please give your reasons for nominating this individual or team:

Please highlight up to three that apply to the nominee.

Has engaged young people from different backgrounds

Has passed on skills and knowledge to help train young people

Has shown ambition to continue to develop future pathways into long term career opportunities

Has demonstrated the mentoring of young people in and beyond the workplace

Organisation has empowered young people and helped build confidence

Helped them overcome difficulties to become more employable

Provides other opportunities such as work experience or future planning alongside training

Expand on thehistory of the nominee’s activity/projects in the three areas highlighted above: (No more than 200 words).

Provide information that demonstrates the innovative and imaginative nature of their activitiesin relation to other programmes for this sector:

Approximate stats or figures are acceptable (No more than 200 words).

Please provide any further information that relates to the assessment

criteria for this award:

See page 9 ‘assessment criteria’ for details. Do not repeat information already provided. (No more than 200 words).

SECTION 2 – PHOTOGRAPH

Photograph

Please submit one photograph to support your application. This is optional.

Please ensure this file is titled as follows:

[Award]_[name of nominee]_[description of photograph]

For example:

1_JohnSmith_training

Photographs may be used for publicity for the Creative & Cultural Skills Awards, please ensure any copyright permissions have been cleared before submitting photographs.

Should your nominee be shortlisted for an award, the photo you submit may be displayed at the awards ceremony on 2nd March 2016.

Please ensure that the images you submit are high quality JPGs. Files that do not meet these requirements will not be taken into account when assessing your nomination.

If the material you want to submit exceeds the maximum data allowance for emails, we recommend that you send your photograph to us () via

Please do not include any additional information or attachments other than photograph above.

Please provide details of the photograph you are submitting in support of this application:

SECTION 3 – THE ENDORSEMENT

If you are nominating someone else for an award, please fill this section out yourself.

This endorsement should be given by an individual of appropriate knowledge and standing who has in-depth knowledge of your work (for example, a senior representative of a relevant organisation, guild, association, professional body, educational establishment, local authority or funding body).

Please note: endorsers may be contacted by Creative & Cultural Skills as part of the judging process.

Name of endorser :
Job title:
Organisation:
Relationship to nominee:
Address:
County:
Post code:
Telephone no:
Email address:
Website (if appropriate):

Please state in no more than 300 words your reasons for endorsing this application:

SECTION 4 – DECLARATION

I confirm that the information I have provided in this application is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

I confirm that Creative & Cultural Skills has permission to use all images and copy submitted as part of this nomination during promotion of the Creative & Cultural Skills Awards. This includes use on print collateral, and at the ceremony on 2 March 2016 and external media.

Print Name :
Date:

All decisions made by the Creative & Cultural Skills judging panel are final and are not subject to review or appeal.

GUIDANCE NOTES

The Creative & Cultural Skills Awards recognise organisations and individuals working to support young talent to build careers in the creative sector.

The Awards also seek to recognise exemplary apprentices and interns working in the sector.

The deadline for all nominations is 5pm on Friday 8th January 2016.

Shortlisted nominations will be announced on Monday 8th February 2016. Award winners will be announced at a ceremony at The Backstage Centre on 2 March 2016.

1 WHO CAN MAKE A NOMINATION

Anyone may make a nomination by completing this form and forwarding it to . If you are unable to complete this form online or require this in a different format please contact 020 7015 1800.

Self-nominations are permitted.

Nominations for more than one category are permitted, however must be submitted on separate forms.

2COMPLETING THE NOMINATION FORM

Please complete the nomination form completely and accurately, following the instructions in each section closely.

It is important that you provide as much information as possible and explain what the nominee’s contribution has been.

3AWARD CATAGORIES

Nominations are invited for the following awards:

1The Design Skills Award

2The Music Skills Award

3The Craft Skills Award

4The Jewellery Skills Award

5The Cultural Heritage Skills Award

6The Theatre Skills Award

7The Training Provider of the Year Award

8The Apprentice of the Year Award

9The Intern of the Year Award

10Creative Choices Award

4 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Award 7

This award will celebrate Further Education colleges that have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to training to enable young people to work in the creative industries.
The Training Provider of the Year Award is open to any FE college. Entry is free for members of the National Skills Academy network of education partners, and open to non-members at a cost of £500.

Nominations for award 7 will be assessed against the following criteria:

-Nominee has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to promoting vocational employment pathways (apprenticeships, paid internships, traineeships and work placements) into the creative and cultural sector

-Nominee can evidence a track record of successfully supporting young people to gain skills which enhance employment opportunities in the creative and cultural sector

-Nominee demonstrates an ambition to support young people from all backgrounds into employment in the creative and cultural industries

-Nominee’s activity or approach is particularly innovative and imaginative

5TIMING OF NOMINATIONS

The deadline for all awards is 5pm on Friday 8th January 2016.

All decisions made by the Creative & Cultural Skills Awards panel are final and not subject to review or appeal

6SHORTLIST

Creative & Cultural Skills will filter out any nominations that do not meet the criteria. If the nomination is deemed to meet the criteria the nomination will be put forward to the independent advisory group (IAG) and eligible to be shortlisted. The IAG will select three nominations to be put forward to the independent final judging panel.

Shortlisted nominations will be announced on Monday 8th February 2016 via

7CEREMONY

Shortlisted nominees will be invited to attend an evening ceremony at The Backstage Centre on 2 March 2016.

Please note that two tickets to this event will be free of charge for shortlisted nominees. Travel expenses will not be recompensed. If you are shortlisted for the award, please ensure that you, or a member of your organisation is able to attend the ceremony.

Only one trophy will be provided per award.

The Backstage Centre

High House Production Park

Vellacott Close

Purfleet

Essex

RM19 1AS

8ENQUIRIES

For further enquiries, please contact the team at Creative & Cultural Skills at or on 020 7015 1800

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