Parking in the Community Award

Sponsored by: The International Parking Community

Parking is an essential public service and can be a positive contributor to local communities. This award will recognise people working within the parking sector who have engaged with and supported their local communities. 

The criteria:

The Parking in the Community Award is open to:

• Community engagement programmes run by the parking sector

• Projects that see car parks become a focal point of community activity

• Community and charitable projects enabled by the support of parking teams

• Fund-raising initiatives including parking people, etc.

The judges will be looking for evidence of the following:

• Working for and with a wider community

• Innovative thinking in the preparation, publicising, undertaking of a project/initiative

• Degree of success in achieving goal, making changes, improvements, etc.

• Public profile achieved for the project or cause.

The following areas should be addressed:

• Description of the community engagement projects or tasks undertaken

• The inspiration for the project

• Details of the individuals or team involved in the project

• How this project complements or enhances the parking team's skills and lives

• What, if any, parking skills are applied to the community project

• How the community engagement enhances the image of parking

• How the positive aspects of the project is publicised (if appropriate).

Please supply:

• Images

• Customer and client feedback/testimonials

• Press cuttings/Links to websites

• Details of other awards won.

​You can either send in entries as standalone Word and PDF documents or use the downloadable entry form.

Download Entry Form

Please submit completed entries and supporting evidence via email to 

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