Young Activist of the Year Award

Nominations for the 2021 Young Activist Award will be open soon. Information about the Award and previous winners is below.

Until the nominations for the 2021 Awards formally open, please send the information to recruitment@mail.nasuwt.org.uk if you or your Local Association know of any young member who is undertaking exciting and innovative recruitment and organising tasks for the Union.

The Award

The Eamonn O'Kane Young Activist of the Year Award was created to:

encourage activism amongst young members;
recognise and celebrate the outstanding contribution of young members to the work of the NASUWT;
provide award winners with opportunities to broaden and develop their knowledge and experience of the NASUWT and the wider trade union movement.

Criteria

The nominee will have been successful in one or more of the areas listed below:

heightened the NASUWT’s profile;
promoted the work of the NASUWT;
increased the membership of the NASUWT;
organised members in a workplace or wider constituency;
promoted trade union activism in a workplace or wider constituency;
delivered identifiable benefits to members and/or the NASUWT as an organisation.