ESTO Events
ESTO AWARDS NEWS!
To be presented at our Gala Dinner in Koln, Germany
On Wednesday, October 26th ESTO will be hosting a Gala Dinner in Koln, Germany.
As part of our celebrations we will be holding an Awards Ceremony to honour certain people and companies within our industry, and the international publicity we will generate before, during and indeed after the event for the winners will help raise the profile not only of ESTO itself but also the synthetic turf industry in general.
We want to actively recognise and promote good practice, dedication and outstanding achievement within our membership and feel the best way to do this is to present 3 awards, covering the following sectors:
Community Award
This award will acknowledge how the use of synthetic turf has helped communities develop in some or all of the following areas..
a notable increase in community sports participation, significant increased levels of a specific targeted demographic group, contributing to healthy lifestyles, assisting in a reduction in crime, helping to improve social development, increase fair play and equality within the community and providing further opportunities for children and young people to enjoy sport.
This award will be jointly given to the company(s) and the user.
Please email your recommendations to communityaward@theesto.com
For the Community Award please keep your recommendations to under 500 words and ensure that you mention the key points and specific achievements of each nominee. Please also detail the specific benefits achieved by installing a synthetic turf surface. Photographs and illustrations are very welcome in support of your nomination.
Education Award
This award will recognise a product or service which has helped raise the profile of synthetic turf, improved the image of the industry and helped to make the product increasingly more acceptable to the end user through increased learning and training opportunities.
The Award will be given to the company and/or the end user.
Please email your recommendations to educationaward@thesto.com
For the Education Award please keep your recommendations to under 500 words and ensure that you mention the key points and specific achievements of each nominee. Photographs and illustrations are very welcome in support of your nomination.
Lifetime Achievement Award
This lifetime achievement award will applaud an individual who has shown the utmost dedication to the synthetic turf industry and the recently formed European Synthetic Turf Organisation itself, and will be awarded to someone who is both a personality and a leader in our industry.
Please send an email in less than 500 words stating why your nomination deserves to be recognised in this way to industryaward@theesto.com Photographs and illustrations are very welcome in support of your nomination.
Timeline and next steps
We need to receive your applications by August 30th 2011 please, and the voting procedure is as follows:
For the Education and Community Awards, 50% of the votes will be allocated to end-users and various independent professionals as identified by the ESTO Chairman. The remaining 50% will be generated by all ESTO members at the ESTO Congress.
For the lifetime achievement award, we will release a shortlist of nominations shortly after the voting deadline. The final vote will occur at the ESTO Congress 2011.
Please note that either an ESTO Member or an end-user can apply for the Community and Education Award.
We look forward to your full participation in this exciting new initiative - let's use this opportunity to publicise our own companies and fellow colleagues and be justly proud of their achievements, and let us show the world that the synthetic turf industry is alive and kicking, and a force to be reckoned with!
Kind regards
Nigel Fletcher
Executive Chairman
European Synthetic Turf Organisation
