Criteria: For the IWA branch which, in the opinion of a panel consisting of the national chair, deputy chairs and CEO, has made the greatest progress and achievement in promoting the Association’s aims and objectives during the past year.  All branches are considered, without need for nomination.  The award consists of silver salver, donated to IWA by former national chairman David Stevenson, for the purpose, in 1998.

Past Winners:

1999 IWA Oxfordshire Branch
2000 IWA Ipswich Branch
2001 IWA Peterborough Branch
2002 IWA Stoke-on-Trent Branch
2003 IWA Lichfield Branch
2004 IWA Chester & District Branch
2005 IWA Northampton Branch
2006 IWA North Lancashire & Cumbria Branch
2007 IWA Peterborough Branch
2008 IWA Ipswich Branch
2009 IWA Stoke-on-Trent Branch
2010 IWA Northampton Branch
2011 IWA Milton Keynes Branch
2012 IWA Warwickshire Branch
2013 IWA Chiltern Branch
2014 IWA Chester & Merseyside Branch
2015 IWA Lichfield Branch
2016 IWA Shrewsbury District & North Wales Branch
2017 IWA West Country Branch
2018 IWA Northampton Branch
2019 IWA North Staffordshire & South Cheshire Branch
2020 IWA West Country Branch
2021 (not awarded)
2022 IWA Lichfield Branch
2023 IWA Birmingham Black Country & Worcestershire Branch

[Photo: Alison Smedley receiving the award on behalf of IWA Stoke-on-Trent Branch from Clive Henderson (left) and Tony Hirst (right) in 2009]