The Imperial Garden Party is an annual event which celebrates all staff and students who have been nominated by their managers, peers and colleagues for their exceptional contributions to the College within the last year. 

It also recognises staff who have supported important projects, provided excellent service, taken on new challenges or gained a qualification whilst demonstrating commitment to the College’s values and behaviours, Respect, Collaboration, Excellence, Integrity, and Innovation.

Nominations can be made by staff from all areas of the College. The nominations are considered by a selection panel representing both support services and academic staff. Successful nominees, in recognition of their achievements, will be invited to attend both the President’s Awards for Excellence and Provost’s Awards for Excellence ceremony, followed by the Imperial Garden Party celebration event, which serves as an honour for their outstanding contributions. (Please note Garden Party attendees are not required to go on stage for the award ceremony).

Eligibility Criteria

  • Staff in any role across the College are eligible to be nominated.
  • Nominations can be made by any Imperial staff member.
  • This award is open to individual and team
  • Self-nomination is not permitted for this category.

The nomination must be completed by midnight on Wednesday 27 March 2024.

Nomination Information

You may nominate an individual or a team to receive an invitation to the Imperial Garden Party to recognise their dedication and hard work over the past year.  Please don’t feel constrained by these examples, but you might like to recognise staff for:

  • Working on a special project with successful outcomes
  • Gaining a new qualification
  • Giving outstanding service to the College in a particular role
  • Serving on a department, team, or committee and contributing to its success
  • Making extraordinary efforts above and beyond the normal responsibilities of their role
  • Supporting and promoting staff wellbeing
  • Demonstrating evidence of respect to other members of the College community

Entering the nomination

(Please refer to the user guide document for the online awards system).

Please note, if you are accessing the system off-site, ensure you are connected to Zscaler, and the authentication is turned on.

Important: The selection panel will ONLY draw on the evidence presented in the nomination form when making their decision, so please ensure a good case is presented for submission.

  • A single nomination form should be completed for each individual and team
  • All nominations must be seconded before the Please refer to the online awards system user guide for more information.
  • Evidence should be provided for the nomination and should be written for a non-expert audience and specific examples given where
  • There is a strict 200-word limit for each free text

Questions to complete

  1. Is this an individual or a team nomination? If this is a team nomination, please include the name of the team and the names of each team member.
  2. Please describe your relationship to the nominee (i.e. colleague, peer, line manager) and how you became aware of their contributions to the College.
  3. Please describe what your nominee, individual and/or team, has achieved in the past year to merit an invitation to the Imperial Garden Party and how they demonstrate the College’s values and behaviours. Please reference the Imperial Values to inspire your nomination.

Please be aware of the strict word count of 300 words.