THE CONSERVATION AWARDS 2005

THE AWARD FOR CONSERVATION
THE AWARD FOR CARE OF COLLECTIONS
Notes for Applicants and On-line Form [The form itself is below]

THE AWARD FOR CONSERVATION
This Award recognises excellence in completed projects involving the conservation of the cultural heritage in the UK. It is presented for a project judged to be the best of those submitted. To be eligible, projects may be focused on the conservation of individual items or collections, of the decorative elements or fixtures associated with a historic building (but not the building itself), or of monuments and sculptures.

THE AWARD FOR CARE OF COLLECTIONS
This Award recognises excellence in completed projects involving the care and preservation of cultural heritage collections in the UK. It is presented for a project judged to be the best of those submitted. To be eligible, projects should be focused on improving the conditions in which collections are housed.

Who can apply?
Conservators or teams working in the private or public sectors in the UK are eligible to apply for these Awards. Applications must be supported by those responsible for commissioning the work.

Timetable and Judging
Entrants for the Award for Conservation and the Award for Care of Collections should submit a short application using the on-line form below or the downloadable PDF application form by 8 March 2005 (see "How to apply" below for details). These will be sifted and considered for short-listing by the Awards Screening Panel. Only short-listed candidates will be asked for full details of their projects. All short-listed candidates for the Award for Conservation will be informed in early April and asked to submit full details of their projects by 20 May 2005.

Members of the Judging Panel will visit all the short-listed projects during June and July 2005 in order to meet those involved and see the outcome of the projects at first hand.

The members of the Screening and Judging Panels will be publicised on the Awards website.

Assessment criteria for the Award for Conservation and the Award for Care of Collections
In assessing applications, the Screening Panel will be looking for evidence of the following:
* Exemplary work that may influence future practice.
* Improvement in the quality of physical and intellectual access achieved
* Effective communication of the project to the professional community and
   the general public.

Conditions of entry
* The work must have been carried out in the UK.
* The outcome of the project must be accessible to the public in the UK.
* The project must have been finished by a date between 1 July 2003 and
   31 January 2005.
* Joint applications from conservators or others working in collaboration are accepted.
* All applicants must be clearly identified on the application form.
* Applications for the same project may also be made for the Anna Plowden Trust
   Award (using a separate form).
* The decisions of the Judges are final.

Please note that entry material will not normally be returned.The sponsoring and supporting organisations reserve the right to use any of the material submitted for publicity purposes.

How to apply
To apply for the Award for Conservation or the Award for Care of Collections, please follow the instructions below.

On-line applications
To apply on-line, please complete the form below, indicating which Award you are applying for.

A project description of no more than 1000 words must be entered into the box provided, making clear how the project meets the criteria stated and why it is considered to be a potential Award-winner.

Five images (in jpg, gif or tiff format), illustrating the achievement of the project, must be submitted as part of your application. These should tell the story of the project and should focus on the conservation or collections care work carried out. Instructions for how to submit the images will be e-mailed to you once the form below has been submitted.

Please check that all fields have been completed before submission. When you click on “Submit your application”, an e-mail containing your application will be sent automatically to the Awards Administrator and you will receive an acknowledgement e-mail message.

Postal applications
You may also download, complete and print out the PDF application form. This should be sent with a project description as outlined above, together with five images (photographs, not slides please), to arrive no later than 8 March 2005, to Conservation Awards, 702 The Chandlery, 50 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7QY. Please note that the Acrobat Reader software does not allow you to save a copy of the completed form. Although you can complete it using this software you must print it out in order to generate copies for submission and for your own refernce. All application material should be copied onto a CD-ROM, to be sent with the application. Text should be in Microsoft Word format. Images should be in jpg, gif or tiff format. Explanatory captions for all images must be included on the CD-ROM and should be in Microsoft Word or Powerpoint format.

Any questions?
If you have any queries, or would like further information, please contact Susan Hughes, the Awards Administrator, by telephone or fax on 020 7326 0995 or by e-mail at [email protected]


RECENT AWARD-WINNERS

Award for Conservation 2004
Hamilton Kerr Institute. Conservation and reinstatement of the 14th-century retable from St Mary's Church, Thornham Parva, Suffolk.

Award for Conservation 2002
Ian Clark and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport.
Conservation and display of the Royal Navy’s first submarine, Holland 1.

Award for Conservation 2000
Hanna Conservation and Martin Stancliffe.
Investigations into the causes of deterioration of carvings of leaves and animals in the 13th-century Chapter House, Southwell Minster, used as the basis for a new approach to long-term preservation.

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On-Line Application Form
The Award for Conservation
The Award for Care of Collections

Please note that the wording used in the fields marked * will be used on publicity material and Award certificates, and should be as clear and concise as possible.
Fields marked « must be completed.

Please indicate which Award you are applying for (you cannot apply for both):


INFORMATION ON APPLICANT(S)
Name of applicant(s) *
«

Address
«

< Town/City «
< County
< Postcode «

Contact name/address (if different from above)
< Name
< Address

< Town/City
< County
< Postcode

Telephone  «
Mobile
Fax 
E-mail   «
Media/PR contact
details (if different)

INFORMATION ON PROJECT
Title of project*
«

Date of completion «

Organisation(s)/individual(s) commissioning the project

Other team members

Location where project can be seen
«

Project Description «
Please give details of the project within the two separate boxes below as directed, making clear why it is considered to be a potential Award-winner. The description must be set out under the headings given below and within the word limits indicated.

Brief description (up to 250 words) «
* Key points of the work undertaken*
* Main achievements of the project*



Execution, management and communication of project (up to 750 words) «
* Work undertaken
* Exemplary features
* Planning of project and management of resources
* Collaboration with colleagues and others
* Communication of the project to the professional community and the general public
* Improvements achieved in physical and/or intellectual access



Images
Please list the images here (explanatory labels):
Image 1: «
Image 2: «
Image 3: «
Image 4: «
Image 5: «

Instructions on sending the images will be e-mailed to you once the form has been submitted.

CD-ROM
You must submit a CD-ROM containing copies of text in MS Word format and the images in jpg, gif or tiff format, with captions in MS Word or MS Powerpoint format. Instructions about this will be e-mailed to you once this form has been submitted.

I/We declare that this information is supplied to the Conservation Awards by the applicant(s) and represents a true record of the project « (tick this box to make this declaration)

Date of declaration «


Publicity
* Information provided by applicants will be used and retained solely in
   connection with the Conservation Awards scheme.
* Details of individuals and projects reaching the short-lists will be used
   only for the purposes of publicising the Awards and short-listed applicants.
* By submitting this form, applicants signify their consent to such publicity.

     


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