About the CQI Volunteering Impact award

This award recognises volunteering activity or activities which have made a demonstrable impact on the CQI, its members and/or the wider profession.

We welcome applications from individuals, groups or committees whose voluntary contributions have supported the CQI in furthering its aims to “advance education in, knowledge of, and the practice of, quality in industry, commerce, the public service, and the voluntary sector”.

Applicants must be an active volunteer or a committee of volunteers for the CQI. They can nominate themselves or be nominated by another volunteer, a CQI and/or IRCA member, or the CQI executive team.

The judging process

As well as our esteemed CQI executive panel, this category includes a fourth judge: the voice of the membership. This helps to demonstrate the impact that this volunteering has had on CQI and IRCA members.

Our panel of internal judges will review and shortlist the written entries using a numerical scoring system. The shortlisted entries will become our finalists.

Finalists' entries will be presented as a short pen portrait and shared with the membership for voting (finalists will have a chance to approve this).

The membership vote will then be added to the judges' scoring to determine a winner.

Criteria

• Provide a summary of the volunteering activity that you believe deserves recognition.
• Tell us how this volunteering activity was delivered – include key steps or key activities.
• Demonstrate what impact this volunteering activity has had on individuals, groups, the CQI or the wider quality profession.