Prostart Annual Awards
Prostart hold an awards evening to celebrate the achievement of learners annually in June.
Nomination Process
Nominees for the awards are put forward by their employer, assessor or they can nominate themselves. The nominations are sent to the sponsors of the awards who judge a winner and a runner-up to ensure there is no bias.
Invitations are sent out to all learners who achieve their qualifications between 1st April and 31st March each year, along with employers that have supported the development of Apprentices and work based training.
Award Categories
Trophies will be presented during the evening to a runner-up and
winner in each of the following categories:
Charity Raffle
In 2010 Prostart chose to support the work of the work of the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance Appeal.
Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA), based at East Midlands Airport is a relatively new air ambulance service, taking over from County Air Ambulance on 1 April 2008. This service has moved the emphasis away from simply transporting casualties to hospital, to getting senior doctors and consultants to the scene of incidents as quickly as possible. DLRAA conveys its patients to specialist hospitals that can help specific injuries, not just the nearest hospital.
DLRAA provides life saving treatment and medication on site and en-route to hospital. This is an invaluable service in cases where land ambulances are unable to access the scene or where transfer by land ambulance would be too slow or risk further injury to the patient. DLRAA's primary response area is the 2,100 square miles of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland and will serve in excess of 1.4 million people.
In 2009, DLRAA undertook 943 missions, sometimes attending upto 4 or 5 incidents in one day. The missions vary but examples from 2009 include: 9% of missions being equestrian related, 40% being road traffic collisions involving cars, 10% being sporting accidents and 9% involving road traffic collisions with motor bikes etc.
Given that the charity receives no Government or Lottery funding, they rely entirely on public donations to help them raise the £1.5 million needed every year to maintain the life saving operation. Every penny donated really does make a difference.
A range of prizes are presented to the winners.
Look out for further information about the 2011 Awards in our News section and in our monthly Newsletter Natter.