Application form for the Historic England Angel Awards 2016 The Historic England Angel Awards, funded by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, celebrate the efforts of people who go to extraordinary lengths to protect, save and share their local heritage. The awards recognise people who champion their local heritage and share and practice forgotten craft skills. They also celebrate young people, recognising their efforts to learn about heritage. Are you involved in championing your local heritage or do you know of someone who is and deserves to be recognised for their efforts? To be in with a chance of winning an award, complete this form and submit before midnight Sunday 17 July 2016. The award categories are: Best community action project Best contribution to a heritage project by young people Best research project Best rescue of a heritage site Outstanding contribution to heritage Applications in each category will be assessed against the published award criteria and eligibility. Individuals and groups are eligible in all categories. Four applicants will be short-listed for each of the award categories and all shortlisted applications will be invited to attend the award ceremony and after-show reception in London. Financial support is available to cover the cost of travelling to the award ceremony.
Before completing and submitting this application form, please read the award criteria and eligibility as well as the terms and conditions. 1. Name of person completing the form: Salutation: First name: Last name: 2. Are you applying for: yourself a group that you are part of nominating an individual nominating a group 3. Contact phone number: 4. Postal address: Building name or number (where relevant) Street name District/town County Postcode 5. Email address: 6. Name of group or individual who is the Historic England Angel? (this is who the award would be presented to if they won and the wording that would appear on any awarded certificates e.g. The Friends of Pleasley Pit):
7. If you are nominating a person or group, please provide contact details for them: Telephone number: Email address: Postal address: Building name or number (where relevant) Street name District/town County Postcode 8. Is there a website or Facebook page about your project? If so, please provide the address: 9. Which category are you applying under? (please tick all that apply) Best community action project Best contribution to a heritage project by young people Best research project Best rescue of a heritage site Outstanding contribution to heritage 10. Name of the heritage site please provide the name of site (or sites) that efforts have been focused on
11. Name of project (where relevant) if your application relates to specific project (e.g. research project, campaign etc) 12. Address of the site: Building name or number (where relevant) Street name Civil parish (if known) District/town County Postcode (where relevant) 13. If your site is listed on the National Heritage List for England please provide the List Entry Number 14. Has the site ever been included on the Historic England at Risk Register? Yes No Unknown
Before completing the next section, please refer to the award criteria as this is what your application will be judged against for shortlisting. Any text submitted should be written by you and may be widely published by Historic England or other media. (Please see Terms and Conditions ). 15. Briefly tell us a little bit about the individual or group up for the award including why they got involved with the project. 16. What were the main aims of the project? 17. What were the outcomes of the project? 18. Were any skills shared as a result of the project? If yes, please provide brief details on what these were and how they were shared.
If you have ticked more than one category at question 9, please complete all of the relevant questions below. 19. If applying under the category Best community action project tell us what the action was including a brief summary of who was involved, what had to be done, timescale, how the project was funded etc. (up to 600 words)
20. If applying under the category Best contribution to a heritage project by young people please tell us what the contribution was and what the role of young people was in achieving it. Include the ages of those involved, and a brief summary of timescale, how the project was funded etc. (up to 600 words)
21. If applying under the category Best research project please tell us about the project and how the results of the research are being used to further the understanding of heritage/ a heritage site. Include a brief summary of who was involved, timescale, how the project was funded etc. (up to 600 words)
22. If applying under the category Best rescue of a heritage site tell us how the site has been or currently is at risk, setting out the condition of the site before and after the rescue project. Provide details including a brief summary of timescale, how the project was funded, what had to be done to rescue the site etc. (up to 600 words)
23. If applying under the category Outstanding contribution to heritage please provide a summary of the individual or group s contribution to heritage, including a brief summary of timescale, how they funded the work they did etc. (up to 600 words)
When submitting your application form, please attach at least three photographs (maximum four), showing the following: Individual or group applying/nominated for the award (ideally whilst working on the project) Heritage site (where relevant). Photographs should be in jpeg format and each should be at least 300 dpi but no more than 3MB in size. Any photos submitted may be widely published by Historic England, our media partner and other media. (Please see Terms and Conditions ). I have read and agree to the terms and condition of this competition I agree to participate in any reasonable publicity in relation to these awards I would like to receive the Historic England Newsletter I would like to receive other information about the work of Historic England Personal information gathered for the Angel Awards is processed securely by Historic England and successful project details are held on our systems for a period of eight years. Personal information connected to unsuccessful projects will be deleted after six months. If you would like us to stay in touch about this or similar topics please tick this box. Please send the completed application form and photographs to: Email: angels@historicengland.org.uk by Sunday 17 July 2016. Post: National Heritage at Risk Team Historic England Waterhouse Square 138-142 Holborn London EC1N 2ST
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