Anne Gadsden
Ambassador Co-ordinator
East of England

July means that our Regional judges are in action assessing all the entrants for the 2010 awards received in this region. The East of England saw the highest growth in terms of the additional number of entries received, and as a percentage of previous performance, of any English Region so they are busier than ever this year. The outcome of their deliberations will not be known until the Gala dinner in the autumn but we wish all our entrants well.

Even though the judging for 2010 is still underway we are already looking to 2011.  UK Skills have been kind enough to offer me the contract as your Ambassador Coordinator for the 2011 campaign. Work has already started so you may soon start to get emails or telephone calls from me. Having had a good result last year there is quite a bit to live up to but as many of you know there is still untapped potential in the Region and we will be looking to tackle this in the coming year.

A couple of differences this year surround what used to be called Information sessions. These have been re-branded NTA Seminars “How to construct a winning entry�, which is something I personally welcome, but their main aim will still be to support those who are considering applying for an award to make the best of their application.

If anyone has a venue they would like to offer I would be interested to hear from you or alternatively if you feel able to introduce me to someone who may be willing to support us  in this way again please give me a call on 01525 752286 or email me on eastofenglandambassadors@nationaltrainingawards.

The Regional Ceremony will be held on Thursday 7th October in Cambridge, very definitely a date for your diary. It would be a pleasure to see you there, and I’ll have more information about tickets nearer the time. We still have regional ceremony sponsorship available. Please get in touch with the Awards office should you wish to get involved.

I’ll also be in touch with all Ambassadors very soon about a meeting for us all in September.  It will be good to have a get together much earlier this year so that we can plan for raising entry numbers next year.  I would also like to know about any regional events/conferences which NTA can be promoted at.   At date will follow.