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Posted: 12 December 2024
UPDATES: The CTSI Hero Awards recognise individuals and teams whose dedication, innovation and commitment have made an outstanding contribution to consumer protection and the Trading Standards profession.
Posted: 05 September 2024
UPDATES: CTSI is calling for nominations for its 19th Hero Awards, recognising people and groups whose work protects consumers and businesses, with winners due to be honoured in Parliament in December.
Posted: 28 November 2023
UPDATES: The CTSI Hero Awards celebrated outstanding achievements across the trading standards profession, recognising individuals and teams whose work has delivered exceptional consumer protection, innovation and public service during the past year.
Posted: 04 September 2023
UPDATES: Nominations are closing for the CTSI Hero Awards, which recognise trading standards officers, scam victims, charities, businesses and others who have made an outstanding contribution to consumer protection.
Posted: 28 November 2022
UPDATES: The Trading Standards Hero Awards recognised outstanding individuals and teams whose work tackling scams, unsafe products, modern slavery and other threats has made a lasting difference to consumers and communities.
Posted: 21 October 2021
UPDATES: The 2021 CTSI Hero Awards celebrate outstanding consumer protection achievements, recognising innovative work on food allergens, scams, product safety, counterfeiting, equality and community engagement while highlighting the people behind those successes.
Posted: 12 October 2020
UPDATES: Trading standards teams from across the UK were recognised for exceptional work during the pandemic, celebrating frontline efforts that protected businesses, consumers and animal welfare.
Posted: 10 August 2020
UPDATES: CTSI Chief Executive Leon Livermore provides a video update on how the 2020 Hero Awards will be delivered during the Virtual Symposium, with details of the revised arrangements and where to find further information.
Posted: 09 April 2020
UPDATES: CTSI has postponed the 2020 Hero Awards because of the pandemic, confirming existing nominations will be carried forward while celebrating the frontline work continuing across consumer protection.
Posted: 05 March 2020
UPDATES: The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) Hero Awards 2020 are now open! The Hero Awards recognise and celebrate the unsung heroes of.
Posted: 11 July 2019
UPDATES: KwikChex receives a CTSI Hero Award in recognition of its sustained work tackling timeshare fraud, supporting trading standards investigations, providing expert evidence and helping consumers targeted by organised scammers.
Posted: 11 July 2019
UPDATES: Thurrock Trading Standards Ports Team is honoured with a CTSI Hero Award after intercepting more than a third of the UK's unsafe imported products, preventing dangerous goods from reaching consumers.
Posted: 05 July 2019
UPDATES: Operation Gripped wins a CTSI Hero Award for its partnership approach to tackling illegal money lending, combining policing, trading standards and community campaigns to expose loan sharks and promote safer borrowing.
Posted: 03 July 2019
UPDATES: NatWest's work with Norfolk Trading Standards has transformed scam prevention through community banking, awareness events and support for victims, earning national recognition for protecting consumers.
Posted: 03 July 2019
UPDATES: Ruth Andrews' leadership in tackling doorstep crime, securing major convictions and building lasting support for vulnerable victims has earned her CTSI's Trading Standards Hero Award.
Posted: 03 July 2019
UPDATES: Detection dog Scamp has helped uncover millions of pounds' worth of illicit tobacco, disrupted organised crime and become an unlikely national hero for his work alongside trading standards teams.
Posted: 03 July 2019
UPDATES: Sharon Conradie's quick thinking and courage protected elderly neighbours from an aggressive rogue trader, leading to a successful prosecution and recognition for her exceptional intervention.
Posted: 03 July 2019
UPDATES: After helping thousands of consumers resolve cross-border disputes and influencing wider consumer protection policy, the UK European Consumer Centre has been recognised with a CTSI Hero Award.
Posted: 03 July 2019
UPDATES: Councillor James Evans' sustained backing for trading standards in Powys, from political leadership to public advocacy, has strengthened local services and earned CTSI's Political Hero Award.
Posted: 03 July 2019
UPDATES: Three dedicated volunteers whose tireless work has raised scams awareness, supported vulnerable residents and strengthened community protection have been honoured with CTSI's Brian Smith Hero Awards.