EPIC Awards 2025 - Nominate young people

This online form is for adults to nominate young people for an Exceptional People in Care Awards.

From 2025, there will be multiple award ceremonies run throughout the year. So, every time you want to acknowledge a young person's achievements, nominate them!

What Do They Get?

All nominees will receive a congratulations card and a nominee certificate.

Who Goes To The Event?

All nominees are put forward to the judging panel. The top 50, the young people nominated with the most outstanding nominations, will be invited to attend the event. 1 winner will be chosen from these nominees to be the winner of each category.

Nominees who attend the event will get their certificate and a trophy. Winners of each category also get a hamper of prizes.

When Are The Cut Off Dates?

All nominations made from 2024 to 30th April 2025 will be put forward for the June 2025 event judging.

All nominations made between 1st May and 31st July 2025 will be put forward for the September 2025 event judging.

All nominations made between 1st August and 31st October 2025 will be put forward for the January 2026 event judging.

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EPIC Awards Events

We're so excited to tell you that after hearing from young people and previous attendees, the Exceptional People in Care (EPIC) Awards will be taking a new format this year. Instead of one large event, we will be hosting smaller celebrations across the county. These awards are a fantastic opportunity for us to recognise the incredible achievements of our young people in care, care leavers and kinship care, aged 5-25.

All nominees will receive a recognition card and certificate. Those with outstanding nominations will be chosen by our judges to attend an event, and be put forward to win an award. All those attending the event will receive a trophy and goody bag. Winners for each category will also receive a hamper of goodies!

Data Protection Statement

The Voice and Participation Team will use this questionnaire to collect personal and special category data the processing of which is necessary to enable us to be compliant with the law (general well-being duties), and for reasons of substantial public interest. This data will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and any subsequent replacement legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulations.

The personal data we collect will not be shared with anyone outside of West Sussex County Council and will be held securely on a computer for a period of up to 3 months following presentation of the EPIC Awards before being appropriately destroyed. Personal data will not be retained for longer than necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are collected. West Sussex County Council is registered as Data Controller (Reg. No. Z6413427). For further details and information about our Data Controller, please see www.westsussex.gov.uk/privacy-policy

I understand that the information provided will be used for the purposes of nomination for the EPIC awards and I have informed the nominee and their responsible adult or carers of this nomination.

We really want to highlight the fantastic achievements of young people. If your quote is used for this purpose to highlight the inspirational stories we will be in contact with you to discuss.

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Please ensure that:

Your nominee knows he/she/they have been nominated and why.
Your nominee is looked after by West Sussex County Council and is aged between 5 and 25 years old at the time of completing the form.

Please also note that all information given here will be shared in confidence and anonymously with professionals on the judging panel.

Should you wish the information given not to be shared with the judging panel, or to be redacted in some way please indicate below or contact epic.awards@westsussex.gov.uk

Invitations will be emailed to the carers email address and nominees will be sent a personalised card in the post. If the nominees address changes please inform us at epic.awards@westsussex.gov.uk

Thank you for supporting the EPIC awards.