Award nominations can be made by learners, partners and employers and members of staff and volunteers. There is no limit on the number of nominations you can make but you must ensure that your nomination is fully completed and demonstrates that the nominee has met the criteria for that award.
Learners can nominate themselves but staff must not nominate themselves.

For learners and employers/partners, you can nominate any who have been supported by or who have worked with SPS over the last 2 academic years.
For staff awards, you can nominate any current member of SPS staff or volunteers.

The nomination process will be live from 9am on Monday 27th May until 5pm on Friday 21st June (4 weeks). Nominations made outside of this timescale will not be accepted or included in the shortlisting process.

You should look at the nomination detail for each award (shown below) and ensure that your nomination meets the criteria. You should then complete a nomination form which can be accessed at www.sps-training.com/awards. The form should be completed in full and submitted online.
If you would rather make a paper-based nomination, then you can pick up a nomination form from any of our Centres (Bedford, Hatfield, Hertford and Stevenage) and return the completed nomination form to one of those centres before the deadline (5pm on 21st June).

All nominations will be given to an independent panel of judges on Friday 28th June (Employability Day). The judges will score the nomination against the criteria and select finalists and winners.
The SPS staff recognition award will be judged by the SPS Senior Management Team.

Finalists will be announced on 5th July and invitations will be sent to these finalists on that day. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Friday 2nd August.

SPS will invite all staff, employers and key stakeholders. Finalists will be allowed to bring up to 2 guests each. If you would like to bring more than 2 guests then please check with SPS before by emailing @sps-training.com

The awards ceremony will be held on Friday 2nd August at The Michael Morpurgo Theatre at Hertford Regional College. The address for this is:

Hertford Regional College
Broxbourne Campus
Turnford
Herts
EN10 6AE

The ceremony will commence at 10am and conclude by 11am.

Teas and Coffees will be available for guests from 9.30am. The ceremony will then commence at 10am sharp. The ceremony will be opened with an address from the SPS Director.
The shortlist for each category will be announced by a guest presenter with a brief overview of each nomination. The winners will then be announced and invited to the stage to collect their award and have a photograph taken.
There will be an opportunity for the winner to say a few words if they wish, but this will not be mandatory for those who do not wish to.

Each winner will receive a plaque or certificate and small gift from SPS. The winners will also receive photographs of themselves taken on the day through the post after the ceremony.

There will be a photographer present on the day who will take pictures during the event, of winners on stage and group photographs afterwards. Winners will be asked to sign a waiver form to declare whether they mind their photograph being used for press coverage and for case studies and on our website.
We will be asking local press to attend on the day, but if this is not possible, we will be writing our own press release and will be sending this along with photographs to local publications.