BRITAIN’S community crime fighters have just two more weeks to enter the Norwich Union Neighbourhood Watch Awards.
BRITAIN'S community crime fighters have just two more weeks to enter the Norwich Union Neighbourhood Watch Awards.
The awards, which close on 27 July, recognise outstanding contributions to crime prevention and community safety made by Neighbourhood Watch schemes and their members.
Prize money totaling Ł8,000 is up for grabs across eight different award categories, including Co-ordinator of the Year, Community Service award and the Home Secretary's Award for Young People.
John Howell, director general of Neighbourhood Watch said: "The Norwich Union Neighbourhood Watch Awards demonstrates how Neighbourhood Watch is raising its game and at the same time making a safer community. As before the outstanding quality of the entries means the judges are going to have a very hard time choosing the category winners."
Ben Welsh, director of communications and marketing of Norwich Union Insurance said: "Neighbourhood Watch schemes help build a safer community for everyone. The awards provide an opportunity for the 10 million members to shout about their successes over the past 12 months and celebrate the role Neighourhood Watch plays in both crime prevention and community safety."
Entries are now being called for in the following Norwich Union Neighbourhood Watch Award categories, with a Ł1,000 cash prize for each:
- Co-ordinator of the Year
- Urban Award
- Rural Award
- Community Service Award
- Partnership Award
- Police Award
- Home Secretary's Award for Young People
- Scottish Young Persons' Award
Certificates of commendation will be given to the best entries from every police force area in the UK. In addition, a national award will be given to the overall winner from among the eight category winners and will be announced at a presentation ceremony to be held later in the year.
Full details of the awards and how to enter can be obtained from the National Neighbourhood Watch Association, Schomberg House, 80-82 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HF - telephone 020 7772 3348 or e-mail info@neighbourhoodwatch.net. The closing date for entries is 27 July 2001.
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Notes to Editors:
- The Norwich Union Neighbourhood Watch Awards 2001 are sponsored by Norwich Union in association with BBC Local Radio, the Home Office, the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Local Government Association. The judging panel will include representatives of all the supporting organisations.
- Neighbourhood Watch is the UK's largest voluntary movement with over 5 million households covered by 155,000 schemes. The National Neighbourhood Watch Association represents and promotes the movement in England, Scotland and Wales, and has run the Neighbourhood Watch Awards on an annual basis since 1995.
- Further information on National Neighbourhood Watch Association and on the Norwich Union Neighbourhood Watch Awards can be found at www.neighbourhoodwatch.net.
- Norwich Union Insurance is the UK's largest general insurer - insuring one in five households.
- CGU plc and Norwich Union plc merged on 30 May 2000 to create CGNU plc, the UK's largest insurance group and one of the top-five insurers in Europe with substantial positions in other markets around the world, making it the world's sixth largest insurer based on gross worldwide premiums.
- CGNU's principal business activities are long-term savings, fund management and general insurance, with worldwide premium income and retail investment sales from ongoing business of over Ł27 billion and assets under management of more than Ł210 billion (figures correct as at Feb 2001).
- From October 2000, the combined life and pensions, general insurance and retail fund management businesses in the UK operate under the Norwich Union brand, while the institutional investment business operates under the Morley Fund Management brand.
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