BCC Awards in November

Indunil HEWAGE

The Best Corporate Citizen (BCC) Awards 2011 ceremony, which is organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo on November 4 for the eighth consecutive year. BCC Awards access the services of a corporate entity of private or government to its stakeholder, customers, suppliers, shareholders, employees, environment and community.

Each year, the Best Corporate Citizen (BCC) Awards event is organized to promote corporate social responsibility and strategic corporate sustainability within the business sector in Sri Lanka.

Under the BCC Awards 2011, awards will be given for sustainable business and outstanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects. Under the BCC Awards 2011, applications will be called under two categories, category A and B.

Any enterprise from the private or public sector, including group companies with a turnover of Rs 15 billion or over should apply under category A. Enterprises with a turnover of less than Rs 15 billion should apply under category B.

Awards will be presented to the top ten corporate citizens selected from all applicants under category A and B. 'Winner and the first and second runners up will be selected from applicants under category A and B, top three from category B, category awards for the best performer under each of the five categories such as environment, employee relations, customers, supply relations, CSR, governance and economic contribution.

Best CSR project awards will identify meaningful and outstanding CSR projects in public and private sector institutions and will encourage businesses that are engaged in philanthropic activities in the community.

Projects carried out on education and training, projects in the North and the East, health and nutrition programmes, projects to assist the differently abled people, environmental conservation, empowering women, infrastructure, disaster relief and rehabilitation, sports and recreation, projects to support senior citizens, orphanages and poverty alleviation will be entitled to apply for the best CSR project awards.

Under the CSR category, five best CSR projects will receive awards and certificates of merit will be presented for all projects that have achieved a high standard.

All private and public companies and government owned businesses are eligible to apply. Holding and subsidiary companies could submit separate applications for different projects. If a company applies for more than one project, each project should be accompanied by a separate application.

All applications for Best CSR projects and Best Corporate Citizen Awards has to be submitted to Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, 50, Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 2 on or before September 7. Applications and guidelines for CSR awards and Best Corporate Citizen Awards 2011 could be obtained on www.chamber.lk