Disability-Smart Awards - 2016

Entry form

Disability-smart Awards - 2016

Please type your answers in this form as we cannot accept handwritten submissions.

Section A: About your organisation

1.Name of organisation (as it should appear in any publicity):

2.Contact details:

Primary contact

Name:
Job Title:
Email:
Telephone:

Secondary contact

Name:
Job Title:
Email:
Telephone:

3.Approximate number of staff employed:

4.Sector (please delete those that are not applicable):

Public Sector / Private Sector / Third Sector

Section B: About your entry

1.Title/Name of your entry:

3.Submission statement

Please state here, in no more than 800words, why you should win this award. You should use this space to make your case so that the judges can make the right decision.

The judges will be marking your submission against the following criteria, so please cover all these aspects.

Impact on Individuals / The extent to which the entry improves the lives of those disabled people affected. How completely it removes the barriers they previously faced.
Mainstreaming / How the entry opens up mainstream processes for people with disabilities - as opposed to providing alternate/special arrangements for people with disabilities.
Flexibility / How the entry can accommodate the specific needs of individual people with disabilities. i.e. How it be adjusted for the specific needs of those individuals?
Thought Leadership / How much it ‘raises the bar’ of best practice in that area and is likely to influence others to follow suit by replicating the solution or finding alternative ways to create similar outcomes.
Innovation / How innovative the entry is and how much it covers new ground (e.g. removing a longstanding barrier, identifying new areas of opportunity, extending existing practice to benefit people with other forms of impairment, spreading disability-smart practices into additional organisations or additional places).
Involvement / The extent to which and how disabled people were involved in identifying both the “problem” and the “solution”.
Availability / The extent to which and how the entry has been made available to other organisations/is freely available for others to use.
Scale / The proportion and/or number of disabled people positively affected by the entry.
Details:

4.Supporting evidence

You can attach up to three pieces of supporting evidence. These can be, for example documents, photographs or video clips. Please ensure these are accessible and in a format in which we can circulate to the judges. You don’t have to include any supporting evidence.

Please explain briefly what each piece of evidence is and why the evidence is relevant.

Please note that you need to make sure that your submission and any supporting evidence is accessible and provided in a format in which we can circulate it to the judges.

Entry fees

Entry to the awards is open to all organisations.

BDF Members

Entry is free to members and Partners of Business Disability Forum as a benefit of membership. If you are not sure if your organisation is a member please check here:

Non-members

Entry for non-members is subject to payment of a £350 + VAT fee per category. Please submit a purchase order number, or other instructions for us to obtain payment, with your entry. Your entry cannot be judged until this fee is paid.

Judging

The judges will score your entry against the above criteria and the entry with the highest overall score in each category will be the winner. In the event of a dead heat between two or more entries we may need to ask you for more information to help the judges determine who wins. In any event the judge’s decision is final.

Publicity

One of our objectives in running this scheme is to be able to promote examples of disability-smart business practice and therefore we may want to highlight details of your entry, whether or not you win in a category. If any of your submission details needs to remain confidential please let us know here and we’ll only make those details available to members of the Business Disability Forum team and the judges.

Details:

Submission process

Please email this form plus relevant supporting material via email to

If the file size of your entry is too large to email, you can post a USB, disc or similar containing your entry and any supporting evidence to:

Disability Standard Awards

Business Disability Forum

Nutmeg House,

60 Gainsford Street,

London, SE1 2NY

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