Excellence Awards

The Herne Hill Society Excellence Awards

There is so much to celebrate in Herne Hill, so to coincide with our 40th anniversary we are launching our Excellence Awards. Any local individual, group, business or organisation can apply, showing how they are contributing to life in Herne Hill. We are looking forward to seeing the entries.

There will be Awards in each of the key areas of the Society’s work — Community, Environment and Heritage. We are asking for nominations up to the end of September 2022, with a winner and two highly-commended in each category to be announced at our 2023 AGM.

1. What are the Awards for?

  • To raise the profile of Herne Hill
  • To highlight excellent initiatives in progress or recently completed
  • To celebrate and further encourage community endeavours which are supported by our aims.

2. Who can apply?

There are Awards in three categories, covering the three key areas of the Society’s work – Environment, Heritage and Community.

We want as many entries as possible, so our winners could be anything that is making an impact: enhancing the environment, celebrating local history, improving the community; encouraging local engagement or promoting civic pride in Herne Hill.

Environment – Putting effort into enhancing the local environment or encouraging local people to appreciate and engage with trees, flowers, green spaces, play areas, wildlife, sustainability or conservation. The judges want to hear about anything that improves the area’s environment.

Heritage – Increasing knowledge of the history of our locality, conserving the provision of valuable resources, school history projects, or someone who has done some interesting local research. The judges want to hear how your work enhances our heritage.

Community – Investing in local people: this might include initiatives for older people, young people, refugee groups, or any group doing interesting work to engage and build our community or enhance safety. The judges want to hear about your work in community relations.

3. Reasons to apply

  • The honour of being judged by the Herne Hill Society to be the best or highly commended in each category.
  • The presentation of an engraved crystal award for the winner in each category and certificates for the winners and highly commended, plus being able to use Winner (or Highly Commended) Herne Hill Society Excellence Award 2022 on your publicity and marketing.
  • Targeted publicity throughout the Herne Hill area: all winners and highly commended will be photographed and interviewed for our Herne Hill magazine.

4. How will applications be judged?

This is a wholly-owned Herne Hill Society initiative, and winning entrants will be those that appeal to the judging panel who have broad and wide experience of significant involvement with the Society. Our judging panel consists of two past Herne Hill Society Chairs, Sheila Northover and Colin Wight, and past Secretary of the Society, Pat Roberts. Sheila Northover will Chair the panel, with the casting vote in the case of tied decisions.

5. Key dates

  • 15 May 2022 onwards – entries welcome
  • 30 September 2022 – closing date for entries
  • 1 December 2022 to 28 February 2023 – judging takes place
  • March 2023 (date TBA) – Herne Hill Society AGM. Awards announced to coincide with the end of our 40th anniversary year.

6. How to apply

Any individual, group, charity, business or organisation may apply or nominate someone else for entry. If you nominate someone else, you will need to fill in an application form on their behalf and you will need to get their permission. You can apply in more than one category. You can also apply for more than one Award as long as you complete a separate form for each entry

7. What we need to know

a. Contact details of person applying, i.e.

  • Name
  • Address
  • Phone
  • Email

b. Who is being entered for the Award? Give contact details if different from above.

c. The category that best suits the nomination: Environment, Heritage or Community.

d. Finally, in no more 500 words, tell us about the ways in which this individual/work/project/initiative contributes to life in Herne Hill. You can attach photographs, if relevant.

Send your email and attachments to chair@hernehillsociety.org.uk before 5:00pm on 30 September 2022. Or post your entry to: The Herne Hill Society, PO Box 27845, London SE24 9XA.