IPROW 40th Anniversary Awards - a celebration of the work you do
2026 represents 40 years of IPROW and some of you have been with us since the beginning! We are currently requesting nominations for a variety of awards, which will be presented at the Annual Update in October.
We would like you to nominate your colleagues either an individual or a team for any outstanding work that they have delivered. For many of you, you work quietly, completing work and moving on to the next task in hand, a list that never seems to be completed. However you and your colleagues know how much work is put into various issues, projects or difficult case work. We therefore ask that you have a think and give a colleague a little recognition or if you are a team leader perhaps the team has done something you are particularly proud of. You might also have been working with a neighbouring authority or another organisation to deliver some work, perhaps you could nominate them.
How to nominate
We will need the name of the person being nominated, their job title and a description of why you are nominating them in an email to membership@iprow.co.uk, it is that simple!
Nominations will close at the end of August, so there is a little bit of time for you to consider who you might nominate.
Need some suggestions?
Access improvement project.
Setting up and supporting volunteer groups.
Negotiating with a particularly tricky land owner.
Innovative solution to a long term problem.
Securing additional funding.
Supporting a colleague.
Enthusiastic new starter.
Long service.
Team work.
A well written report.
Writing new policy.
Dealing with an obstruction.
Representing your authority or organisation.
Engagement work.
The nominations will be looked at by members of the board and IPROW staff, and we will select the winners and these will be announced at the Annual Update. The award itself will be sent to the winners shortly after the Annual Update so that this can be displayed proudly in the office or at home.
Our IPROW community through its members has vast amounts of knowledge and expertise, and those new to public rights of way and access join with such enthusiasm and willingness to learn, where the wider world knows little about how much work goes on behind the scenes to manage a resource that is heavily used (whether knowingly or not) and underfunded. We would like to celebrate what you do.