Introduction
Over the years, we have all seen many individuals who have significantly contributed the community of All Saints Parish. The Parish Council of 2025/26 felt that a refreshing approach to acknowledging the unerring work undertaken by residents would be to present an annual award for “Community Contribution”. This would be awarded to an individual who had been nominated by their peers, the parishioners of All Saints, or those resident outside the parish with knowledge of the nominee’s contributions.
Award Name
The Award will be called the “All Saints Community Contribution Award”.
Purpose
The Award is to recognise an individual who has actively carried out good deeds that have been beneficial to the All Saints community. This may be through, but not exclusively to, the organisation of community groups, selfless support to others, improving our environment or any other reason described during a nomination.
Timing and the Award Selection Process
Timing
For 2026 only
- Nomination forms (paper and online) will be available from 1st March 2026, and parishioners will be asked to complete them by 30th April 2026.
Subsequent years
- Each January, the Parish Council will request nominations for the Award from Parishioners of All Saints. Nomination forms (paper and online) will be available from January.
- The nomination form will allow individuals or groups to nominate a person and state why they feel that they should receive the award. The form will enable the nominator to detail the contributions made and the impact on the community.
- Nominations will close on March 31st each year.
- The Parish Council will review the nominations from April 1st and make their decision before May 1st.
Award Selection Process
The Parish Council will choose who they believe to be the most appropriate recipient(s) against a set of agreed criteria and the statements on the nomination form. (Show Award Criteria)
The Award
The recipient will receive a certificate reflecting the contribution made, presented at either the Annual Parish Meeting or a suitable community event at the beginning of May.
A list of all recipients will be held on the Parish Council websites.
Conditions for Nomination
The individual must be a resident of All Saints Parish.
The nominations may come from individuals or groups who reside outside the parish.
The evidence given for nomination must be related to contributions to All Saints Parish.
Responsibilities
Our Parish Clerk will communicate the need for nominations in January of each Year, via the parish magazine, social media and Council websites.
The Parish Clerk will collate the nominations on April 1st of each year.
The Parish Councillors will review nomination during April of each year and decide on the recipient by 30th April each year. The process for decision making will be by consideration of the nominations against the defined criteria. (Show Award Criteria)
Funding
The cost will be borne from the Parish Council funds.
What Next?
As stated above, you can submit your nomination on paper by clicking the 1st link below. This will download all the information you need together with a form to complete. Print and post (by hand) the form to the Clerk’s address shown or, if you prefer, email it to them. Full details are on the form.
Alternatively and much easier, you can complete your nomination online. Click the 2nd link below to load the online form. Simply complete the details and then hit Submit.