The Russell Scott Trophy is awarded to the Area Association with the best all round record in a specific year.

Each year a large army of CSSC volunteers devote considerable time and effort to ensuring CSSC's Area Association community provides a vibrant and effective activity programme for members.

In doing this AAs and their committees show imagination, fortitude and innovation achieving remarkable results whether it's introducing new activity ideas, valuing their volunteers or increasing membership.

Especially for 2011 CSSC wants to recognise the significant impact the efforts of AAs have had over the year and how this has benefited the membership. No AA should feel excluded. Each and every AA contributes to CSSC's effectiveness whether it is providing a wide array of activity or a few well managed events and clubs

The judging panel is looking forward to hearing from AAs large and small, major city or rural. The panel recognise that it is unlikely no one AA will excel in all categories of the trophy. The panel also recognise though that most AAs may not feel it's worth their while submitting a nomination. Every AA whether they realise it will have one or two success stories worthy of consideration.

The judging panel will want to know about your:

Successes

- What significant successes the AA has had in the last 12 months.

Development

- How has the AA aligned to the CSSC Roles and Responsibilities for AAs?

Membership

- How has the AA sought to keep in touch with its members? What steps did the AA take to recruit more members?

Other than these items the panel want to be inspired by your stories. Don't keep your success to yourself. Your AA may have had that one idea or success that deserves recognition. The nomination process has been refreshed to make it easier for you to submit a nomination. You don't need to write lengthy essays. A brief description is all that is necessary for each question - max 200 words for each item or if you prefer just use bullet points.

The panel will select three finalists all of whom will be invited at CSSC expense to CSSC Conference on Monday 25 June where the winner will be announced.

If you have any questions please contact HF on 07802 482330 or hedley.featherstone@cssc.co.uk.

This year the successes and good stories from across all nominations will be shared with the AA community thus helping to share good practice and grow the AA community. Help make this happen by submitting a nomination for your AA.

 

Please Note - once you have filled in the form you will automatically be redirected to a page which says 'thank you for submitting this nomination etc' If you are not redirected to this page, your submission has not been successful and you will need to re-submit the form

Russell Scott Trophy - Closing date for nominations 15 April 2012

Russell Scott Nomination Form 2011

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Your Nomination Details

Name (nominator)

Association

Role

Work Address

Telephone (day)

Email

I agree to CSSC using the information in this nomination for educational or promotional purposes

I submit a nomination for the folllowing award/trophy

Please Tell Us:

AA Name

Programmes

What activities did your association provide for members in 2011?

Volunteer Management

1) How does your association recruit, retain and reward volunteers? 2) Does the AA regularly say thank you to its volunteers and if so how? 3) How are volunteers kept informed of what is happening in the AA? 4) How are new volunteers inducted?

Communication

What methods do you use to keep members and non members informed of what is happening and opportunities on offer i.e. newsletters, magazine, e-bulletins, press releases, open days and awareness talks?

Partnerships

1) How does your association link with its respective regional council, local Departmental Association, other employer contacts and CSSC Head Office? 2) How do these relationships assist your association?

Membership Recruitment

Provide an explanation of any recruitment campaign organised by the AA including an idea of how many new members were recruited and methods used to attract new members and information given to new members

Committee Structure

How did the association ensure in 2011 its committee structure reflected as widely as possible its membership?

Keeping Members in the Picture.

How did the association ensure the membership was kept informed of the committee’s work?

Activity Funding

Please outline the association’s system for dealing with funding and other requests from members, affiliated clubs and other eligible groups

Supporting Members

1) Please provide evidence of any subsidy scheme operated by the AA. 2) Please explain how any scheme was advertised in 2011 to the membership. 3) If a scheme exists please state how many requests were dealt with in 2011?

Roles and Responsibilities

How has the association sought in 2011 to engage with CSSC’s AA Roles and Responsibilities and ensure its structure matches the expectations?

The future

What are the association’s plans for the next three years? How will winning the Russell Scott Trophy help the association deliver its key objectives in the next twelve months?

Thank you for taking the time to submit a nomination. Hedley Featherstone, CSSC Volunteer Development Manager would be interested to hear your thoughts on the nomination process as CSSC is committed to making sure the process is relevant and easy to use.