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Guidance: Ministry of Defence Sanctuary Awards

Defence Infrastructure Organisation

August 3
07:59 2022

Nominations for Sanctuary Awards 2022 are now CLOSED.

Overview

The Sanctuary Awards have been recognising outstanding conservation and sustainability efforts across the MOD estate since 1991.

The Awards celebrate and encourage group and individual efforts that benefit sustainable development, environmental and heritage conservation, utilities and resource saving measures, sustainable construction and procurement or community awareness on land or property that the MOD owns or uses in the UK and overseas.

Award Categories

Entries are being sought for the following categories:

  • Environmental Enhancement Award - projects focused on wildlife and biodiversity, environmental research, or tackling pollution and contamination issues.

  • Heritage Award - projects focused on archaeology, historic buildings, historic parks and gardens, historic landscape preservation, museum collections, heritage education and public engagement.

  • Social Value Award - projects focused on any of the social aspects of sustainability, including heritage, public access, community engagement and education.

  • Net Zero and Resource Efficiency Award - projects that contribute to the MODs Net Zero Carbon ambition, reduce energy, water or resource consumption, renewable energy or recycling.

  • Sustainable Procurement and Construction Award - projects to improve sustainability of equipment or services, management of supply chains or product life cycles or new build construction and refurbishment projects that innovate in fields such as new materials or design.

  • Individual Achievement Award - for those who have made a significant personal contribution to MOD sustainability or conservation as a volunteer, MOD employee or contractor.

Winners from the above categories will be further considered for one of the following:

  • Silver Otter Trophy: awarded to the best Establishment, Conservation Group or community led project or individual conservation effort on the MOD estate.

  • Sustainable Business Award: awarded to the best larger scale or commercial project which delivers sustainable solutions to enable the Armed Forces to live, work or train.

  • Innovation Award: awarded to those who have exemplified innovative behaviours by championing the adoption of new ideas, innovative ways of working and continuous improvement. This might include taking appropriate risk and early termination of work where relevant.

Please note that if your nomination focuses on the work of one individual it should not be entered for a project award category, but rather into the Individual Achievement Award category. The Award Board reserves the right to move a nomination into a different category if they feel it is a better fit.

How to submit an award

Nominees can be MOD personnel, Conservation Groups, Industry Partners and other MOD stakeholders.

Entries must relate to defence land, property, activities or equipment, either in the UK or overseas. All entries must be approved by the Head of Establishment.

To enter submit your nomination online at Sanctuary Awards

If you have any questions, contact the Sanctuary Team at dio-sanctuary@mod.gov.uk who will be happy to help.

The Sanctuary Team will review the nominations and depending on the volume of applications in each category, a long listing selection exercise may take place. A panel of internal and external subject matter experts will then judge the entries using the Sanctuary online portal.

The judges individually review each category in the Sanctuary online portal and can award a maximum score of 50 points to each nomination. In order to maximise your potential overall score, you must provide full answers to each section. Once each judge has completed their assessment, the judges meet to conduct a moderation exercise, whereby they discuss the reasons for their individual decisions and make a group decision as to the final scores awarded. Once the winners of each category have been determined, the judges select from these winners the overall winners of the Sustainable Business Award and Silver Otter Trophy and Innovation Award.

Published 19 February 2021
Last updated 3 August 2022 +show all updates
  1. Notification that nominations for Sanctuary 2022 are now closed.

  2. Addition of note on how to submit an entry via the new portal for 2022.

  3. Attachment removed as this is no longer required for submission of awards 2022. Last paragraph removed as the information is now out of date.

  4. Updating website with Sanctuary Award results 2021

  5. Launch of Sanctuary Award nominations 2022

  6. Added: 2021 Sanctuary Awards Winners section

  7. Updated content under 'Selecting a winner' heading.

  8. Page updated as nominations for Sanctuary Awards 2021 are now closed.

  9. Updated content on sustainable procurement and construction award under heading 'Award Categories'.

  10. Updated the page for 2021 application

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