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The Campaign for Freedom of Information is seeking nominations for the Freedom of Information Awards.
Held annually since 1985, the Awards recognise the authorities, individuals, media bodies and other organisations who have made significant contributions towards freedom of information during the year.
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Past winners include:
- Public bodies who have gone beyond legal requirements in allowing access to information which they hold, or in encouraging greater public participation in decision-making. Previous winners include local authorities, a TEC, the BSE inquiry, a development corporation, a head teacher, a prison governor, a hospital, a social services department and individual health professionals
- Employees who have risked their jobs to expose malpractice in the police, health service, higher education, other public bodies and businesses
- Individuals who have had to mount extraordinary campaigns to obtain the truth about the deaths of relatives, in accidents or from drug side effects, or to expose corruption
- Individual journalists, local newspapers, TV and radio programmes who have mounted systematic campaigns to expose unjustified official secrecy
- MPs who have made a significant contribution towards freedom of information
- A company which encourages employees to write anonymously to its in-house journal with complaints about conditions of work and which publishes them with a response from the directors
- Companies which have voluntarily disclosed normally confidential information.
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SPONSORSHIP
OF THE
AWARDS
If you are interested in sponsoring the Awards, please write to the Director of the Campaign at the address below.
The Awards are presented by a leading politician or journalist and previous presenters include Tony Blair, Jack Straw, Lord Irvine, Steven Norris, Paddy Ashdown, Michael Grade and Harold Evans.
Previous sponsors of the Awards include Consumers' Association, Clifford Chance, Countrywide Porter Novelli, The Reuter Foundation, Government Policy Consultants, Apple Computer and the Graphical Paper & Media Union.
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If you know of or work for a public authority or private body which has taken an important openness initiative in the UK or know of any media body or individual who deserves recognition, do please nominate them for this year's Awards.
The categories of Awards are not fixed, and need not follow the pattern of the above examples. Details of previous winners of the Awards can be found in the press releases announcing the winners of the Awards for 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994 and 1993.
Nominations should be submitted as soon as possible and not later than 1st October 2001 to the Campaign at Suite 102, 16 Baldwins Gardens, London, EC1N 7RJ. There is no application form, but nominations should be made in writing and include appropriate supporting and background material.
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