The UK Bus Awards and UK Coach Awards will go ahead this year with a joint video presentation on November 16. Nominations are welcome

 
Bus services were vital to key workers during the pandemic

 
Prior to Covid-19 the UK Bus Awards had held an awards ceremony in London for 24 consecutive years – with a mission to “recognise, reward and inspire”.

With major restrictions on events in place last November it was not possible for the 2020 event to go ahead. However, the organisers shared a three-minute video on social media to draw attention to the ways in which the bus industry “stepped up to such a huge, monumental challenge”.

This year the UK Bus Awards will again take on a different format in recognition of the changed environment that the industry is operating in. The event will team up with the UK Coach Awards and a joint video presentation will be produced.

It will include a look back at what the industry has done during the pandemic, highlights of how businesses are responding to the changed world which now exists and the presentation of the winners. This film presentation will last approximately 25 minutes.

The video presentation will be professionally compiled, edited, and produced by the company that helped to produce the November 2020 video tribute. It will go out on November 16 this year via social channels, YouTube and websites.

Nominations are welcome from all quarters, so please feel free to tell us about any of your partners, suppliers or customers who deserve recognition

The purpose is to use both of the leading bus and coach award schemes to highlight and share all the outstanding contributions that have been made during the last 18 months and which will carry the communities forward. The aim is to recognise, specifically, the contributions from individuals and teams throughout the bus and coach world. It is therefore open to all in the bus and coach industry – operators, suppliers, trade bodies and alliances and partnerships with local and central government.

“We want it to be a total celebration for all,” the organisers explain. “Nominations are welcome from all quarters, so please feel free to tell us about any of your partners, suppliers or customers who deserve recognition. Ultimately, we would hope that this production is used as a marketing tool and shared very extensively with the specific purpose of highlighting our industry far and wide!”

Entries and judging

The 2021 event has specific categories with the organisers claiming that the whole process will be as easy to enter as they can possibly make it.

“An email with a picture or video, that’s it!” they explain. “We will have the benefit of our expert, independent judges selecting winners in each.

“Please do nominate or encourage entries from anywhere within your bus and coach network, we want to highlight as much as possible. Entries are open now and it couldn’t be easier!”

It is as important as ever that we recognise and share recognition for the exceptional contribution made by the bus and coach industry to the wider community by sustaining services through the pandemic, supporting many local initiatives and now looking to the future

The last UK Bus Awards was held at Troxy in east London in November 2019 nd attracted an audience of 700 people. Commenting on the plan for 2021, UKBA chairman Mark Yexley said: “It is as important as ever that we recognise and share recognition for the exceptional contribution made by the bus and coach industry to the wider community by sustaining services through the pandemic, supporting many local initiatives and now looking to the future.”

 
KEY DATES

Entries close: August 27
Judging: September
Event: November 1

For more information visit www.ukbusandcoachawards.org.uk email admin@ ukbusandcoachawards.org.uk or call 0330 010 3451

 
This article appears in the latest issue of Passenger Transport.

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