CONGRATULATIONS to all our 2020 winners, highly commendeds and finalists! This was probably our tightest contest to date with just a few votes in it for so many categories.
It is with sincere thanks to our Headline Sponsors Morton Michel and to Red Book Productions that we could bring together finalists, sponsors and very special guests for our first ever virtual awards ceremony. And of course, to our amazing master of ceremonies, Mr Jonathan Bremner!
We also announced the naming of the 'Steve Franks' Industry Champion of the Year award in memory of everything he did for our sector and the creation of the new Children's Activities Hall of Fame.
These awards are the national event for the children's activities industry and the ceremony is always a huge celebration of individual activity providers; teams and networks and the UK sector as a whole.
Including archery, athletics, baseball, basketball, canoeing, cheerleading, circus skills, climbing, cricket, cycling, fencing, fitness, football, goalball, golf, gymnastics, hockey, horseriding, ice skating, judo, karate, karting, kayaking, kickboxing, laser tag/quest, mayorettes, martial arts, motor sports, movement, netball, active play, rugby, sailing, scuba diving, skate parks, skating, skiing, snowboarding, surfing, swimming, sword fencing, table tennis, tampoline, water sports, yoga.
Including choir, dance, drama, film making, music, music and movement, music lessons, performing arts, role play, singing.
Open to any company or organisation with a significant part of their programme based on music and/or the performing arts operating in any part of the UK.
Including arts and crafts, messy play, pottery painting, languages, academic classes, science, computing, photography, reading, storytelling, gardening
Open to any company or organisation with a significant part of their programme based on academic or creative activities in any part of the UK.
Open to any company or organisation with a programme specifically for children under 18 months old operating in any part of the UK.
Leaders refers to activity leaders, teachers or coaches delivering one or more of the activity programmes across the whole of the UK.
Open to any children's activity programme running in the UK that started after 1st January 2018.
Open to any not-for-profit children's activity running in the UK. Must be a registered Charity or Community Interest Company.
Open to any individual activity leader providing children's activities anywhere in the UK on a volunteer basis.
Open to any company who supplies products or services to children's activities companies and/or professionals.
Only votes from children's activities company email addresses will count towards the declaration of finalists, the highly commended and the winner.
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Not one judge, but many as the whole of the Children's Activities Association Board came together once again to judge the Industry Champion award category for the 4th year.
Find out more about the CAA and the current CAA Board of volunteers over at www.childrensactivitiesassociation.org
Open to any individual working in the children's activities sector to recognise a remarkable achievement:
This could be a business achievement, community or charity achievement, personal growth, personal battle.
This is a judged award.
Open to any company or franchisee who has achieved significant business growth using any reasonable measure such as:
number of children, number of classes, number of franchisees, social media followers, turnover or profit.
This is a judged award.
Open to any company or franchisee that has an amazing social media impact:
This could be a single post, live video, story or a whole campaign.
Perhaps one that went viral, attracted the support of a celebrity or made it to main stream media.
This is a judged award.
Open to any individual person representing a member of the CAA.
This is a judged award.
Thank you to all these organisations that make the What's On 4 Kids Activities Awards possible
"We are delighted to be the headline sponsor for the National What’s On 4 Kids Activities Awards once again! At Morton Michel we have over 54 years’ experience in childcare insurance and have been providing specialist cover for childcare groups for over 40 years. As a founding member of the Children’s Activities Association we are passionate about raising the professional standards in this area of the childcare industry and these awards are a fantastic opportunity to recognise the very best of the UK’s kids' clubs, classes and teachers!"
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