With real estate increasingly focusing on its impact on society – alongside the financial returns it generates – EG is introducing a new category to the 2019 EG Awards.
The Social Impact Award will celebrate those businesses that are widening their focus. From prioritising the recruitment of staff from diverse backgrounds to broadening employment opportunities in their supply chain, from putting environmental sustainability at the heart of decision-making to considering the impact of placemaking on mental health, more and more real estate business are rightly considering their social impact.
This new award will celebrate the best of them.
The deadline for this new category is 21 June and entries should be e-mailed to carly.mcgowan@egi.co.uk by that date.
The winner of the inaugural Social Impact Award will be crowned at the EG Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 22 October.
Social Impact Award
This new award will celebrate the growing number of real estate businesses that focus as much attention on having a positive impact on society as they do on generating financial returns.
These days, many businesses are able to demonstrate they are generating a positive, sustainable social impact. The best are able to point to proven success in doing so.
Achieving social impact could come through partnership, investment, pro-bono work or employee-led initiatives.This success may come in furthering sustainability principles, creating employment opportunities or supporting communities.
Judges will look for evidence that initiatives will achieve a lasting impact and will especially welcome ideas that have the potential for wider application and a wider social impact.
Judges are especially interested in pioneering ideas and approaches that can be replicated and scaled to increase social impact.
This award is open to any private, public or third-sector sector organisation operating in real estate that can demonstrate it is having a positive social or environmental benefit.
Essential criteria
- Please limit your entry to no more than 500 words
- As well as this please include a Twitter pitch – in 280 characters, tell us why you should win this award
- Additional, supporting material should illustrate and support your main submission (do not repeat your awards submission). This is limited to two sides of A4 (in total). If your supporting material exceeds this limit, none will be passed to judges.
- The period under review runs from April 2018 to March 2019 for performance highlights. Use this time period to focus on new initiatives and comparative information.
- If you can, provide at least two client/partner testimonials.
- Submit your entry on e-mail to carly.mcgowan@egi.co.uk.
- The entry deadline is 21 June.
- Information from your entry may be referenced if you win an award. If there is any information from your entry that you DO NOT want to be made public, please state clearly via e-mail to carly.mcgowan@egi.co.uk
