{"id":20016,"date":"2018-09-01T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20016"},"modified":"2018-08-31T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:07:23","slug":"nominations-open-for-ecclesiasticals-heritage-heroes-award-closing-30-sept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20016","title":{"rendered":"Nominations open for Ecclesiastical\u2019s Heritage Heroes Award: Closing 30 Sept"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Heritage_Alliance_website.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19987\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Heritage_Alliance_website.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>Ecclesiastical\u2019s Heritage Heroes Award for 2018 is now open to nominations that mark \u2018significant achievement in the heritage sector\u2019 or \u2018outstanding individual contribution to heritage over a period of years\u2019, with nominations closing on 30 September.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ecclesiastical Insurance and The Heritage Alliance write:<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s heritage sector simply couldn\u2019t function without the hard work and dedication of its volunteers. Volunteers are the lifeblood of heritage conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclesiastical\u2019s Heritage Heroes Award is the Heritage Alliance\u2019s celebration of the amazing achievements of volunteers. The award is a wonderful way to raise awareness of the generosity of the sector\u2019s volunteers and to say thank you where they have far exceeded expectations. Nominate a volunteer today!<\/p>\n<p>At Heritage Day 2018, the key event in the heritage sector calendar, the winner will receive a framed original Pugin-designed tile from the Palace of Westminster. They will also be invited to produce a five-minute video explaining their volunteering achievement to the audience and will be featured on the Alliance website and across social media. The winner also receives up to \u00a3150 toward travel costs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 we will again make an outstanding contribution award, introduced last year, for an outstanding contribution by an individual made over a period of years.<\/p>\n<p>We are grateful to Ecclesiastical Insurance for their support for these awards.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can make a nomination, but only volunteers for Heritage Alliance member organisations listed here, or their member organisations, can be nominated.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations should demonstrate either:<\/p>\n<p>(a)\u00a0 a significant achievement in the heritage sector:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Completed in the past 18 months by a volunteer or group of volunteers<\/li>\n<li>Professional projects can be eligible for consideration provided they have been funded or managed by volunteer effort\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or (b) an outstanding individual contribution to heritage over a period of years.<\/p>\n<p>The achievements or contributions must have made a real difference in bringing heritage to a wider audience, locally or nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Please submit the nomination form by email before 30 September to Henry Cleary, Maritime Heritage Trust and member of the Heritage Alliance Board at <a href=\"mailto:jhenrycleary@gmail.com\">jhenrycleary@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theheritagealliance.org.uk\/heritage-heroes-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theheritagealliance.org.uk\/tha-website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/HAH_nomination-_form-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a> the nomination form<\/p>\n<p>For more background see the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=Ecclesiastical%E2%80%99s+Heritage+Heroes+Award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IHBC NewsBlogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecclesiastical\u2019s Heritage Heroes Award for 2018 is now open to nominations that mark \u2018significant achievement in the heritage sector\u2019 or \u2018outstanding individual contribution to heritage over a period of years\u2019, with nominations closing on 30 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20017,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20016\/revisions\/20017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}