Awards we sponsor

The award schemes we sponsor communicate our core values of commercialism, integrity and stewardship.

Marine business awards

The Business Awards are a company-wide scheme designed to recognise excellence in sustainability, innovation and business performance. The scheme demonstrates our commitment to encouraging the development of successful, innovative and sustainable businesses.

2012 Marine Business Award

If you think your organisation has what it takes to be our next winner, we would love to hear from you. The competition criteria are available in the 2012 Marine Business Award leaflet, which can be downloaded here:

2012 Marine Business Award leaflet PDF (5.1 MB)

Your local managing agent can advise you on how to get involved. For more information please visit:

Agents A-Z

2011 Marine Business Award winner

The winner of the 2011 Marine Business Award is The Green Blue, a Southampton-based company which has been working with many of our customers and tenants to improve energy and waste management.

Created in 2005 by the British Marine Federation (BMF) and Royal Yachting Association (RYA), this innovative environmental awareness programme impressed the judges with its cultural approach to a more sustainable interaction with the sea.

The prize is a £5,000 grant towards research or a community project, nominated by the winner The Green Blue.

Rural business awards

The winners of the 2011 Rural Business Award are Julian and Stafford Procter, tenants on our Wingland estate, Lincolnshire.

The family take a sustainable approach to farming, caring for the environment and providing habitat for wildlife. The farm team work with the local community, with involvement with the Open Farm Sunday scheme and school visits. The judges commented that it was their environmental stewardship, innovative approach and can-do attitude which won them the award.

The prize is £5,000 towards a study tour overseas to see innovative farming methods and businesses.

Urban business awards

The winner of the 2011 Urban Business Award is Sir Robert McAlpine, a successful, family run construction business with a strong company identity developed over 140 years.

Sir Robert McAlpine is committed to maintaining a high standard of corporate social responsibility and its sustainability model seeks to achieve community, environmental and core business benefits. In particular, it was felt that the company's sustainable approach on the Quadrant 3 project on Regent Street has been exemplary. The judges commented that the company had excelled in understanding The Crown Estate's core values.

The prize is a £5,000 towards a research project or community initiative.

Scottish marine aquaculture awards

The bi-annual Scottish Marine Crown Estate Aquaculture Awards is a well established vehicle for showcasing best practice and encouraging innovation to wider public and political audiences.

Scottish marine aquaculture awards

These awards, now held every second year, encompass the full spectrum of Scotland's marine aquaculture industry, establishing the awards as fully recognising 'the best of the best.

We have a dedicated website for the Scottish marine aquaculture awards which provides details on the award categories and the event itself.

Scottish marine aquaculture awards 2011

The ceremony for the Scottish marine aquaculture awards 2011 took place at the Prestonfield House in Edinburgh, 9 June 2011.

Scottish aquaculture is widely acknowledged as the best in the world and these awards recognise 'the best of the best' in the industry.

The awards celebrate the achievements and success of an industry that is vitally important to Scotland and its rural communities.

These awards are open to everyone involved in the Scottish Marine Aquaculture Industry, including smolt suppliers, no matter how large or small, who:

employ the highest standards of aquaculture husbandry
supply Scottish marine aquaculture products to local, national and international markets
farm with a high level of environment awareness; and
deliver a high-quality product.

Organised by The Crown Estate, and supported by a number of commercial partners as sponsors, the awards are free to enter. They highlight the many good things happening in Scottish marine aquaculture and give due recognition to those who are making an exceptional contribution to your industry, now and for the future.

For further information, please visit our dedicated website:

Scottish marine aquaculture awards

Renewable energy health and safety awards

In 2011 RenewableUK and The Crown Estate jointly launched the first ever Renewable Energy Health and Safety Award for the renewable energy industry.

On 31 January 2012 the first ever winner was announced: E.ON Climate & Renewables, for their shallow gas case study at the Rampion offshore project.

For more information, please visit the press release:

First ever Renewable Energy Health & Safety Award winner press release

This annual award is to promote the sharing of best practice in health and safety across the sector.

The award looks for initiatives that demonstrate:

outstanding health & safety performance and innovation
successful sharing of health & safety best practice
substantial impact on risk reduction
long-term improvement in health & safety performance.

The initiative was open to all renewable energy technologies from across the lifecycle of any project.

Entries were assessed by a judging panel made up of representatives from across the renewables and health and safety industries.

The judges looked for entries that acted as a beacon to drive and deliver the highest health and safety standards over what will be a critical stage of growth for the renewable energy sector.

Organisations of any size were eligible with the judges will taking account of the resources available to applicants in their submission.

Judges

An initial screening was carried out by the health and safety practitioners of RenewableUK and The Crown Estate, to ensure applications met the essential pre-qualification criteria.

Each entry was assessed by a minimum of three judges and scored against set criteria.

Any conflict of interest would result in judges removing themselves from judging relevant entries.

The panel agreed a shortlist of candidates who were invited for interview.

The judges were:

Rod Blunden - Consultant
Bernardine Cooney - STSU key emerging energy projects manager, Health and Safety Executive
Kevin Bridges - Partner, Pinsent Masons LLP
Alastair Dutton - Round 3 programme manager, The Crown Estate.

The award

The main purpose of the award is to recognise the development, implementation and sharing of best practice in health and safety across the industry.

The award sought to identify examples of initiatives that demonstrate:

Examples of outstanding health and safety performance and innovation:

This should go beyond legal compliance and be seen as a potential exemplar of its type.

Evidence of the successful development, implementation and sharing of best practice:

Sharing and communication of the scheme / initiative and evidence of how this has practically been achieved and received by the intended audience.

Evidence of a substantial impact on risk reduction and improvement in long term health and safety performance:

The evidence of improvement or change submitted must be measurable either by means of relevant performance indicators (leading and / or lagging) and / or by any other suitable management indicators of "success". This must include either evidence of the impact on long term success and / or it capability long term and sustainable impact.

In each case the examples must either directly relate to a relevant renewable energy scenario / activity or could be an example from an alternative business activity / sector that was successfully applied in a renewable energy context.

Eligibility

The initiative was open to all renewable energy technologies. Organisations of any size were eligible and the success criteria for the award took specific account of relative resources available to organisations in their submission.

Projects and initiatives eligible for the award could have included any example within the last three years, provided its significance and impact on the improvement of health & safety was still relevant and actively contributed to risk reduction within the last 12 months.

Applicants could apply for the award even if they had applied to and / or even won any relevant awards in the last three years as long as the below criteria had been met.