Awards Committee

National Awards Committee

The HASSRA Awards Committee is made up of elected members. It usually meets at least once a year, but conducts much of its business via e-mail.

The Awards Committee adjudicates regions’ nominations for HASSRA’s major national awards which include ‘Best Large Club’ and ‘Best Small Club’, ‘Best Volunteer’ and ‘Best Arts, Crafts and non-Sporting Contributor’, ‘Best Sportsperson’, ‘Best Business Sponsor’, ‘Best Region’ , 'Best Single Activity Club', Best Innovator', 'Best Newcomer' and the ‘DWP HASSRA Wellbeing Award’.

Awards Committee Members

In addition to the Major Awards presented by the National Awards Committee, HASSRA also recognises outstanding performance through a number of special awards, including the Best Recruiting Club Award and the Cinema Society Award.

The Best Recruiting Club Award celebrates clubs that have demonstrated exceptional success in recruiting new HASSRA members throughout the year. To recognise these achievements, certificates will be awarded to the highest-performing clubs, with additional cash prizes available for the top five clubs:

• 1st Place: £500
• 2nd Place: £400
• 3rd Place: £300
• 4th Place: £200
• 5th Place: £100

In addition, two representatives from each of the top three clubs will be invited to attend the annual National Awards Evening at Warwick University, where the final rankings and overall winner will be announced.

Importantly, clubs of all sizes have an equal opportunity to succeed. The award is calculated using a percentage-based methodology that takes account of each club's membership size at the start of the year, ensuring a fair and balanced comparison between large and small clubs alike.

Terms and Conditions

1. The Best Recruiting Club Award is presented to the club that recruits the most new HASSRA members during the calendar year (1 January to 31 December).
2. This is a statistical award and does not require a written submission.
3. The award is based solely on the number of new HASSRA members recruited during the year, rather than overall membership growth. This ensures that changes resulting from transfers between clubs, office closures, mergers, restructures, or other organisational changes are not taken into account.
4. To ensure fairness across clubs of different sizes, the award is determined by calculating the number of new members recruited during the calendar year as a percentage of the club's membership at the start of the year. The club achieving the highest percentage increase will be declared the winner.

Cinema Society Trophy

Terms and Conditions

1. The Cinema Society Trophy is presented to the region that achieves the greatest increase in Cinema Society registered users during the calendar year (1 January to 31 December).
2. This is a statistical award and does not require a written submission.
3. To ensure a fair comparison between regions of different sizes, the award will be determined by comparing the proportion of Cinema Society registered users within each region at the start and end of the calendar year. This will be calculated by expressing the number of registered users as a percentage of the region's membership on both dates. The region that achieves the highest percentage increase over the year will be declared the winner.

For further information contact the HASSRA Communications and Marketing Team.

For full Guidance on our HASSRA Major Awards click HERE