Awards categories for the Inaugural Conservative Movement Awards

Starting tomorrow - with the Best Writer of the Year award category - ConservativeHome will be seeking your nominations for the Inaugural Conservative Movement Awards.  After much discussion on this blog (here and here) there will be twelve award categories for readers to decide...

1. Best Writer
2. Outstanding Parliamentarian
3. National Campaign
4. Local Heroism
5. One-To-Watch
6. Unlikely Ally
7. New Technology
8. Contribution to Culture
9. Taxcutter
10. Environmental
11. Patriot
12. Compassionate Conservative

In addition the Editor of ConservativeHome will award an international conservative and a lifetime achiever.

The Awards seek to balance recognition of (1) outstanding performance in certain fields like parliamentary debate, written argument and creative use of technology with (2) encouragement of individuals and groups who reduce the tax burden and stand up for Britain's national interests (core vote territory) or who advance a more compassionate or environmentally friendly conservatism (broader conservatism).

In this 'nominations and citations phase' readers of ConservativeHome will be encouraged to nominate individuals and organisations for awards and draft supporting citations of no more than thirty words.  In the next phase participants in the ConservativeHome Members' Panel will choose between three nominations in each of the twelve categories.  A panel of judges will meet in three weeks' time to choose between the nominations made on this blog.  The fun begins tomorrow morning...

Comments

[Frank Young]

Fantastic. Really looking forward to this.

[David Surtees]

I meant to suggest an "Unsung hero" award for someone who gives huge service to the Party without broadcasting it and is dependent and reliable and loyal. probably now too late to suggest this but maybe another time.

[Editor]

Your "unsung hero" could get the 'local hero' award, David. Alternatively let me know if you have someone in mind who might be worthy of the Editor's Lifetime Achievement Award...

[Selsdon Man]

Lifetime Achievement Award - there is only one suitable recipient and that is Baroness Thatcher. She, will late colleagues, started the Conservative Movement in this country. If you give it to someone else, the media will view it as a personal snub.

[Matthew Oxley]

This looks interesting, but I can ask about how the panel will be chosen and what steps will be taken to ensure the panel is both balanced and representative of CH contributors?

[Serf]

how the panel will be chosen and what steps will be taken to ensure the panel is both balanced and representative of CH contributors?

Good question Matthew. It is important that we can all unreservedly support the whole idea, and that means that we all understand how the winners are chosen.