The People and Environment Achievement Business Awards (PEABs)

The Different Categories and How to Enter

 

 

AWARD CATEGORIES

 

The award categories have been divided into sectors to allow industry-specific standards and current practices to be taken into account during judging, ensuring that endeavours on every scale are recognised.

The PEABs judging panel will be chaired by Leo Johnson (head of sustainability at PWC) and will feature Jo Fairley (co-founder of Green & Black’s), Alex Lambie (social entrepreneur and green advisor), Tony Juniper (environmental campaigner, author and editor-in-chief of Green magazine) and Jo Wood (TV personality and organic entrepreneur), Awards finalists will be invited to attend a prize ceremony at the National Geographic store on Wednesday 26th October 2011.

 

Banking and Finance

 

This award is designed to recognise individuals or teams within financial institutions who excel in showing that investment performance can be compatible with socially responsible principles.

 

Building and Construction

 

This award is for leadership in sustainable building practices, whether in relation to new builds, refurbishments or existing building infrastructure.

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

This award is for a visionary CEO who most clearly demonstrates an outstanding commitment to sustainability in their market. The judges will take into account the personal contribution of the CEO to their organisation’s growth, market share, competitive positioning and commercial results. The CEO will have outstanding green credentials and a sound grasp of what is needed in the future.

 

Community Interest Company (CIC)

 

This award recognises an individual or team from within a Community Interest Company for environmentally conscious activity in their sector.

 

Corporate Social Responsibility

 

This award is for HR, CSR and other personnel within organisations who initiate cost-effective and positive initiatives to help co-workers become greener.

 

Environment Manager

 

This award is for a business’s all-round excellent environmental management, acknowledging that many aspects of green performance have to be addressed by the individual or team leader responsible.

 

Food & Drink

 

The award is for an individual or team member who has created greater public awareness of the range and quality of organic food and/or drink or has developed products with lower ecological footprints.

 

Marketing and Public Relations

 

This award recognises effective, innovative marketing and communications initiatives by an individual or team leader that have encouraged greener purchasing habits and lifestyle choices. Account will be taken of the merit of the objectives, the relevance, the originality and the quality of the strategy and tactics used.

 

Public Sector

 

This award is for an individual or team working within a public sector organisation that is committed to sustainability and has delivered a project of direct benefit to sustainable development.

 

Retail

 

Nominations are invited from any individual or team working in the retail and wholesale sector carrying out programmes or systems to improve their environmental impact.

 

Online retailers may also enter. They will need to demonstrate the highest levels of delivery, site engagement and usability, security, innovation, and ethical practice, as well as initiatives to make internet purchasing a more sustainable solution.

 

Social Enterprise

 

This award acknowledges the work and achievements of the individuals or teams behind the most inspiring and successful social enterprises, whether a start-up, an organisation that holds the social enterprise mark or a business or project led by young people.

 

Supply Chain Champion

 

This award is open to those who have made greening the supply chain a core strategy. It will recognise how, through an in-depth knowledge of the supply chain, an individual or team has met robust sustainability objectives and become an eco-efficient leader.

 

Transport

 

This award is for an individual or team that has worked to minimise the harmful environmental effects of transport, by such initiatives as fleet management, minimising or changing business travel arrangements.

 

Tourism

 

The award will go to an individual or team leader who has made an outstanding contribution to responsible tourism. The award is also open to those involved in responsible tourism development, whether a new attraction in a deprived area or a sustainable tourism scheme to benefit local people.

 

Overall Winner

 

This will be the individual or team who has come top overall. The nominee may have been short-listed in more than one category or gained a particularly high score in a single category.

 

 

HOW TO ENTER

 

Fill out the entry form online at  www.peabusinessawards.com. You may also supply additional information of no more than 500 words to support your entry. There is no limit to the number of categories that may be entered, but each entry must be submitted on a completed nomination form online at www.peabusinessawards.com.

 

The closing date for applications is 31 August 2011

Entries should contain specific commercial data and screen grabs/URLs and passwords where applicable and should be endorsed by the company’s chief executive. Each submission should contain a high-resolution, print quality (300dpi jpeg) head-and-shoulders photograph of the nominee(s).

 

 

It should be noted that the PEABs are one of the only Awards that do not charge an entry fee. Rather than operating as a purely commercial venture, the organisers of the PEABs are passionate about encouraging businesses to think about and embrace green initiatives wherever possible.

 

 

For more information on PEAB’s check out www.peabusinessawards.com