8 March 2010

Enter our Scotland Awards... nominate your great partnerships!

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Arts & Business says ...

"In spite of the difficult economic times, we know that many businesses have sustained their sponsorship of the arts, and that other companies have sponsored for the first time. This is because business recognises that an engagement with the arts is a cost effective means of promoting brands and services, engaging customers and staff, and fulfilling corporate responsibility policies. The Arts & Business Awards offer the opportunity for successful business and arts partnerships to be celebrated, and I have no doubt this year’s nominations again will evidence how companies have successfully harnessed the creativity of the arts to meet key business objectives."

Barclay Price, Director, Arts & Business Scotland

Nominations for the Arts & Business Scotland Awards 2010 are open now until 5pm on Thursday 13 May 2010.

The Arts & Business Scotland Awards celebrate and showcase exemplary partnerships between business and the arts across Scotland. For a business, being shortlisted provides an opportunity to have its arts engagement given public recognition, while for the arts organisation, nominating its business partner is a way of showing thanks for the company’s sponsorship support.

An independent panel will judge nominations based on the level of excellence in achieving the commercial goals of the business through the arts engagement, as well as achieving the strategic and creative goals of the arts organisation in the following categories:

• Community
• People Development
• Young People
• New or Returning Sponsor
• Sustained Partnership
• Cultural Branding

There is one further category for individuals, the Leadership Award for an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in the arts during 2009.

The 24th Arts & Business Scotland Awards event will take place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow on Wednesday 22 September 2010. The shortlist will be announced in July 2010 and the winners will be announced at the Awards event. This celebratory event will be free and attendance will be by invitation.

Our thanks go to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama for their support, and to Glasgow City Council, Whitespace, Stewarts and Chevron Upstream Europe for their sponsorship of the 2010 Awards.

Download nomination guidelines and forms below, or for further details or to clarify any points please call us on 0131 556 3353 or contact us on scotland.awards@artsandbusiness.org.uk.

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Arts & Business Scotland Awards 2010... nomination guidelines

Arts & Business Scotland Awards 2010... nomination form

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