Categories
Biodiversity Protection Award
Efficiency Award
Community Partnership Award
Rail Crime Prevention Award
Innovation Award
Individual Contribution Award
Team Contribution Award
Biodiversity Protection Award
We want to recognise the commitment by an organisation or individual towards ensuring that protected habitats and/or species are preserved alongside the safe and efficient operation of the railway. Entries might, for instance, include the creation, enhancement and/or maintenance of habitats, and/or the reintroduction of species.
Efficiency Award
Entries are sought from both our customers and suppliers who can demonstrate that they have made significant improvements in the efficient use of resources (such as aggregates, oil, energy, water, forestry etc) or in the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases or waste. Entries should provide a clear measure of the improvements made and a clear indication of the objectives first set out.
Community Partnership Award
Entries should show how a partnership between two or more organisations has helped to improve the local community environment, by tackling an issue on or near the railway. An example might be a collaboration between community rail partnerships and other organisations to provide a necessary rural service that has a positive local impact and a lasting outcome.
Rail Crime Prevention Award
This Award is open to organisations and individuals that can show a measurable and sustained drop in rail crime and/or visual issues in their area. Entries might, for instance, cover work on trespass and vandalism or fly-tipping, and could involve diversionary or preventative activities.
Innovation Award
This Award aims to recognise a new technology or approach for mitigating or solving an environmental problem on the railway. The solution will be a genuinely world class development which has been used over the past 12 months and should be highlighted as a leading example of environmental best practice.
Individual Contribution Award
This Award is to recognise an individual from any organisation, be they a supplier, customer, Community Rail Partnership, school or local community, who has made a significant contribution to improving the environment in a rail context. Maybe you know someone who has gone the extra mile to protect the environment around or on the railway network.
Team Contribution Award
This Award is for a team from any organisation that has made a significant contribution to improving the environment on the railway. The team could, for instance, be ambassadors within a corporate situation or be a Community Rail Partnership, delivering anything from a change in corporate policy to the restoration of disused rail facilities.