One of the questions we get asked here at the Love Barrow Awards HQ is about how the nomination, judging and short-listing process works – so we thought it might be a good idea to give you the details.
Nominations are open until midnight on the 9th November – make sure if you are posting your entry that it arrives before this deadline.
We take a day to compile all of the forms and supporting documents and on 11th November the judging panel sit to go through the mountain on paper. We don’t have a chimney at the offices through which we can issue coloured smoke on making our final decisions, but it might be something we can think about for the future – pink “Love Barrow” coloured smoke maybe?
The judging panel this year consists of representatives from
- Barrow Borough Council
- Barrow Community Safety Partnership
- Cumbria Constabulary
- The Bay Radio
- The North West Evening Mail
- Cumbria County Council
- Cumbria Council for Voluntary Services
- Previous Love Barrow Award Winners
– we’ll have to clear a big enough room at our HQ!
The judges will short-list THREE finalists in each of the nine categories and select the winners. The short-listed finalists will be informed as soon as possible after that date and invited to the glittering awards ceremony at The Forum where the winners will be revealed with the opening of the Golden Envelopes. Think “Pride of Britain” awards that you see on the TV then make it even better, we really push the boat out (thanks to our super sponsors) to make it an enjoyable evening and a lasting memory for the finalists.
The awards evening will be held on the 6th March 2015, which at the time of being told you’re a finalist will seem like a long way off, but the time flies by and there is lots to do in that time! Every finalist is filmed for a video clip to be shown on the big screen at the awards and also included in the DVD of the event. Finalists have a lot of input into what gets filmed and what doesn’t in terms of the work they do, bearing in mind that they may have working environments with children and vulnerable people which all have to be taken into account.
Then it’s just a case of picking yourself something glitzy to wear ready to grace the red carpet – we’re not joking, you can see it in the picture below at the 2014 awards!
Good luck if you’ve been nominated!
If you know of a person or group who go that extra mile for the people of the Barrow Borough, how about nominating them now – there’s nine categories at the awards this year and that 9th November deadline is getting closer -full details can be found by clicking this link.