Each year the
Arboricultural Association seeks to recognise a significant and positive
contribution to the arboricultural industry or profession by the presentation
of the Arboricultural Association Award to an individual.
The process for
nominating a candidate2 to receive
the award is as follows:
- Nominations must be submitted
by individuals, not companies or organisations.,/li>
- Nominations must take the
form of a reasoned case of no more than 1000 words detailing the nominee’s
achievements and background.
- Nominations must be submitted
to the head office of the Association, marked ‘Association Award
Nomination – private and confidential’, for the attention of the CEO, by
30 June.
- Nominations must be formally
proposed and seconded, and must be accompanied by the proposer’s and
seconder’s names and written confirmation that they endorse the
nomination.
- The CEO will convene a panel
to consider the merits of the various nominations, its deliberations to be
concluded by 31 July.
The panel will be
composed of the Vice Chairman, a Vice President and the Chair of Professional
Committee.
The overriding
criterion to be considered when deliberating the relative merits of the
nominations is ‘Service to Arboriculture’: the panel will consider nominees’
excellence or their advancement of practice, research, writing, teaching or
other relevant service.
It is the role of
the award panel to consider the relative merits of the nominations and to
determine the recipient of the award.
If the quality of
the nominations is unsatisfactory the panel is not obliged to make an award.
The award will be
presented to the recipient at the Association’s Annual Conference.
