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Community Engagement Award:

This recognition celebrates those individuals and/or clubs who have gone above and beyond in making a positive impact in the wider community, whether it’s paddlesport related or not. Examples could be:

raising funds for charities or community projects/groups

been involved in helping the community or others, like delivering meals or helping the vulnerable

giving or lending equipment so that people could paddle locally

Committee Volunteer Award:

This award recognises a member of a committee (whether that’s a club committee or SCA committee) who deserves to be recognised for their commitment to the ‘job’! There are many people on committees, who volunteer their time and effort, and it can often be a thankless task. Perhaps this person is the driving force for getting things done, is the club ‘organiser’ or perhaps they do all the jobs no one else wants to do (!), all the while holding down their day job.

Willing Hands Quaich:

This award recognises outstanding service to our sport, and provides an opportunity for you to nominate someone, who acts in a voluntary capacity, and makes a significant contribution to the sport. This could be a coach, paddler or club member. The nominees can be anyone in the paddling community.

Young Volunteer Award:

This award recognises a young person who is under 19 on 1st January 2021 who commits time and effort to the club, centre or community throughout the year in one or more unpaid roles. The nominee could be a young person who volunteers behind the scenes or maybe they have made a successful step on a coaching/leadership pathway. The nominee must be an SCA member.

Andy Jackson Award for Contribution to Access and Environment:

This award is open to those who have achieved great things working to improve/preserve access and/or conserve the paddling environment. The nominees can be anyone in the paddling community.

Impact on Equality and Diversity Award:

This award is for an individual or a group who have made a difference to make paddlesport more accessible to all, increasing opportunities for under-represented groups to participate. The nominees can be anyone in the paddling community.

Coach of the Year:

This award is for a coach (whether that’s a volunteer coach or professional coach of any age) that has gone above and beyond their usual role through the pandemic. Perhaps they’ve come up with ingenious ways of coaching through the pandemic, or perhaps they’ve been extra supportive to their paddlers.

Club of the Year:

This award acknowledges the fantastic work being carried out in clubs across Scotland. Club of the year is open to all SCA affiliated clubs and the winning club will receive £50 towards their next affiliation fee. The winner will be selected by considering what the club does, how well the club is organised, connected, promoted and its plans for the future, with special consideration given to how those clubs worked to keep their members connected during the pandemic. Individual members, club members or regional officers are welcome to nominate any affiliated club they think deserves to win

How to nominate:

******Complete the relevant form below before 30th September to nominate. ********

Winners will be announced in a celebration event on 18th November.