Housing Technology Awards 2023/24
Pre-entry guidelines and instructions
Please read this page thoroughly before starting your award submission(s); a link to the online submission process is at the end of this page. Please email awards@housing-technology.com if you have any questions relating to the awards.
Award Categories
Based on a poll (October 2023) of the Housing Technology community, the categories (entrants may enter up to three categories) for the Housing Technology Awards 2023/2024 are:
- Customer/tenant services;
- Cyber-security;
- Data Management;
- IT Team of the year;
- Digital transformation;
- Innovation.
If your team are proud of the work they have accomplished in one of these areas and you want to share your knowledge, we welcome you to take part in the awards.
Qualifying entrants & applicable entries
The Housing Technology Awards are only open to UK social housing organisations (RSLs) and other UK providers of social housing, such as ALMOs and local authorities. All entrants must be Housing Technology subscribers (you can subscribe here free of charge). Third-party organisations, such as PR companies, IT suppliers and business consultancies, wishing to enter the awards (by proxy) can only do so via their housing customers. Award entries can only be submitted via an email address associated with a housing provider’s web domain. Entries must relate to projects/teams/activities taking place within the past 18 months (as of November 2023). Please note that if the minimum number of entries for a category is not reached, the award will be discontinued. We will inform you if this is the case.
Timescale
The Housing Technology Awards 2023/24 are open for entries until midnight on 12 January 2024. All entries will be acknowledged by Housing Technology by email. All entrants will be informed by email of the short-listed entries. All short-listed entrants will be informed by email with details of the final awards’ prize-giving (to take place at the Housing Technology 2024 conference on Wednesday 06 March 2024 in Nottingham).
Judging and marking framework
Entrants are advised that Housing Technology’s internal team (who will short-list the entries) and our external housing panel (who will then judge the short-listed entries) will use the framework below when assessing the entries. Entrants are advised to compose their entries accordingly to highlight their achievements and details of their project as clearly as possible. Housing Technology will select and invite senior IT/business executives from UK social housing organisations (and other external organisations at Housing Technology’s discretion) Judges will not assess any entries from their own organisations nor from any organisation with which they have any commercial or corporate involvement.
- Outstanding (75-100 marks): full-evidenced, robust and substantiated project; sector-leading, with exceptional impact; very innovative; quantitative goals exceeded; qualitative goals exceeded.
- Good (50-74 marks): very good project with compelling evidence; industry best-practice, with high impact; innovative; quantitative goals achieved; qualitative goals achieved.
- Adequate (25-49 marks): adequate project with some good evidence; meets industry standards, with positive impact; some innovation; some quantitative goals achieved; some qualitative goals achieved.
- Weak (0-24 marks): inconsistent project with limited evidence; weak areas, with low impact; little/no innovation; quantitative goals partly/not achieved; qualitative goals partly/not achieved.
Preview of information to be provided
The information that each entrant will need to provide is listed below; we advise entrants to consider and compose their responses and answers before entering Housing Technology’s awards portal.
- Contact details: name, job title, email, phone, etc. This is for Housing Technology’s internal use.
- Headline/project name (free text, max. 10 words): this will be used by Housing Technology and its external judges to quickly categorise/index each entry; it will not be assessed for the awards.
- Summary of project/team/activity (free text, max. 200 words): this will be used by Housing Technology and its external judges to gain an overview of each entry; it will not be assessed for the awards; it will be used as the basis for any external marketing and editorial coverage.
- Main award submission (free text, max. 1,000 words): this will be used by Housing Technology (for short-listing entries) and its external judges (for final assessments and awards); we advise entrants to thoroughly read and refer to the ‘judging and marking framework’ (above) when composing their submissions.
Final Awards
The winner and runners-up in each category will be split into Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. The awards will be announced at the Housing Technology 2024 conference on Wednesday 06 March 2024 in Nottingham. Winners and runners-up will be entitled to reference their status in their internal and external communications (Housing Technology will provide artwork for marketing/social media). Short-listed entrants will be entitled to reference their short-listed status in their internal and external communications (Housing Technology will provide artwork for marketing/social media). Housing Technology will also provide editorial coverage of the awards in its bi-monthly magazine, online and via social media, including profiles of the short-listed entries and the winners and runners-up in each award category.
The winners and runners-up of each award will be required to attend the prize-giving ceremony at the Housing Technology 2024 conference in Nottingham on Wednesday 06 March 2024 (complimentary tickets will be provided for one representative from each winner and runner-up; additional tickets will be available to purchase).
Confidentiality
All personal data provided will be subject to GDPR. The original entrants and their entries will be confidential to Housing Technology and the external judging panel. The entrants’ own ‘summary’ submissions of the short-listed entries and final winners and runners-up in each category will be covered in Housing Technology magazine, online and via social media (as per ‘editorial coverage & promotion’ above).
How to submit your entry
Housing Technology is using a dedicated online awards portal, so that text can be copied/pasted from Word/Notepad/etc, and entrants can save and review their entries before their final submission. To get started, simply click the button below to go to the portal where you will create your account. The portal will guide you through the submission process. If you have any questions at all, please contact awards@housing-technology.com.
Please note that there are no fees or charges to enter the Housing Technology Awards 2023/24.
