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DINNER
FLOOD & COAST DINNER
The Flood & Coast 2017 Dinner will
be held on Wednesday 29 March
at Telford International Centre. The
evening will feature the Environment
Agency Project Excellence Awards.
Entertainment for the evening
will be provided by stand up
comedian and comedy writer
Dominic Holland, a wellestablished
comic artist with
experience as an after dinner
speaker, actor and comedian.
Launching his career with a
Perrier Best Newcomer Award in 1993 Holland is one of
the most popular event comedians in the UK.
Dominic has contributed to the work of both Bob Monkhouse
and Clive Anderson, he has appeared as a panellist on Have
I Got News For You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. A strong
comedian in his own right Dominic has presented three full
length stand-up shows, appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival and hosts his own comedy show for BBC
Radio 4. He is a regular at both the Comedy
Store and Jongleurs; his material is creative
and brilliant and never stoops to the lows
of offensive or vulgar jokes and is a joy
to watch.
Tickets for the dinner are £75 plus VAT
per person to include pre-dinner drink,
3 course dinner and coffee and wine and
after dinner entertainment.
PROJECT EXCELLENCE
AWARDS 2017
The Project Excellence Awards recognise projects
that have shown a contribution to managing
flood and coastal risk and building local resilience
to flooding. This includes projects developed or
supported by local authorities, internal drainage
boards and the Environment Agency, as well as
community level initiatives.
2017 Award Categories
» Programme and project delivery –
demonstrating the application of programme
and project management best practice to ensure
the efficient and effective delivery of outcomes.
» Working in partnership – to recognise
excellent partnership action on local flood and
coastal risk management and preparedness.
» Asset management – identifying and
implementing new ways of meeting
challenges to deliver projects better, quicker,
more safely or more efficiently.
» Innovation – identifying and implementing
new ways of meeting challenges to deliver
projects better, quicker, more safely or more
efficiently.
» Managing health, safety and environmental
risk – recognising those projects that have
demonstrated the highest standards in
managing H&S and Environmental risk during
scheme development and construction phases.
» Efficiency – recognising those projects that
have made a major contribution to delivering
more outcomes for less money.
» Sustainable resource management –
demonstrating how they have managed
resources sustainably including measures for
carbon reduction and effective management
of waste and the highest levels of resource
efficiency.
» Building resilience – a new category to
recognise community level action to improve
local resilience, including planning for flooding
and generating new and innovative sources
of funding.
A table of 10 is £700 plus VAT.
Dinner sponsored by:
“Very well organised and targeted
to all the individual elements of the
industry”
Tim Hunt, The Environment Agency
34 28-30 March 2017