Nominate Someone for the Coach Core Awards
Help us celebrate the wonderful work of all the people and organisations involved with Coach Core by nominating them for one of our annual awards.
The Coach Core awards are our annual chance to celebrate the people and organisations who make Coach Core special and to highlight their achievements. We will be celebrating our winners during National Apprenticeship Week, (10th – 16th February 2025).
Nominations are now open, and you should make someone’s day by putting them forward.
Support and celebrate each other!
To give your nominee the best chance, please read our quick guide to making an effective nomination, which you can find at the bottom of this page.
Deadline: 12 noon Friday 8th November
The Awards
This award celebrates a Coach Core apprentice who has surpassed expectations in their programme.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible, this person must:
– be at least 6 months into their Coach Core apprenticeship
– be or have been an active apprentice in 2024.
This award celebrates a graduated Coach Core apprentice who has gone on to achieve remarkable things since their Coach Core programme.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible, this person must:
– have completed their EPA within the last 5 years.
This award celebrates an employee of a training provider who has surpassed expectations in support of the apprentices they are teaching.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible, this person must:
– have worked for a training provider with a group of Coach Core apprentices in 2024.
This award celebrates an individual in an organisation that employs a Coach Core apprentice who has surpassed expectations in supporting their apprentice(s).
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible, this person must:
– have been working at an organisation employing a Coach Core apprentice in 2024.
This award celebrates an organisation which embraces the Coach Core ethos and uses the benefits of partnership working to support the Coach Core apprentice(s) they employ.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible, this organisation must:
– have employed a Coach Core apprentice in 2024.
Someone who has, in 2024, made a significant contribution to our mission and has demonstrated our values.
Our mission is to convene and enable powerful employment partnerships to provide accessible, life changing opportunities
Our values:
– Advocates – We offer a staff team who are passionate about our work and strive to always be a voice for our apprentices
– Enablers – Everything we achieve is through partnership building and working, both inside and outside the sector.
– Trustworthy – We strive for open and transparent environments, reporting and communications at all times
– Inclusive – We proactively target and support those who need the opportunity most
– Aspirational – We champion the power of young people and Apprenticeships and will continually seek to enhance our offer
How to make an effective nomination
The key to a well-written nomination is providing the evaluators with specific information about the nominee’s achievements.
It’s important to use specific and concrete examples to illustrate how your nominee meets the award criteria. Provide examples of events, moments, programmes, etc that show how your nominee met the criteria.
The evaluation panel will not be familiar with the nominee, so tell their story as you would tell it to a stranger.
If you can get information or quotes from others to strengthen the nomination, please do include that.
Describe unique characteristics that are more than just that the nominee is ‘a great coach’ or ‘a really nice person.’
The evaluation panel is relying on your words to give them a positive, factual picture of your nominee’s accomplishments. Explaining detailed behaviours and giving specific examples will make it obvious why someone deserves to be recognized.
Examples
Bad
Joe Bloggs is a great coach and is always on time.
Better
Joe Bloggs is a great apprentice because:
- His coaching is outstanding because he has:
- increased participation in his after-school activity club by 15%
- Got great feedback from parents, eg ‘My kid is so much more confident now!’
- His attitude is excellent and an example of this was when he had to cover for a colleague and was willing to work extra hours at short notice to ensure sessions could be run
- Joe also allowed us to do a new project doing walking football with older people thanks to his experience doing this with his previous employer. This has opened up new communities and opportunities for us as an organisation.
