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SPECIAL EFX
TPAS Relaunches Awards
with Vibrant New Trophy
TPAS has re-launched its
awards scheme with new
categories, a changed
format and different
location for the event.
The organisers marked the
occasion in style with a
vibrant new trophy design
for the winners, created
by Special EFX. TPAS is
the independent tenant
engagement organisation,
which acts on behalf of
tenant communities, and
each year celebrates the
work of a host of people
involved in the sector,
including volunteers,
landlords and contractors.
Once you have found a successful formula
for an awards’ scheme, it can be tempting to
stick to it, year after year, regardless of what
is happening in your industry. Likewise,
trophy designs – why come up with a new
look and striking design if nobody
complained about the old one? However,
times move on and before you know where
you are, your once popular event that was
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the go-to awards scheme of the year, can
become an also-ran. Likewise, it can be
surprising how trophy designs can one year
be ‘on-trend’ and the next start to look a little
dull and passé.
Time to change
the trophy design
A spokesperson for the organisers explained
they took advice before updating the trophy
design. “Connect In Events has been using
EFX for over 10 years to design and produce
awards for all our clients’ events, we wouldn’t
go elsewhere as EFX is reliable, produces
high standard awards and, most importantly,
nothing is too much trouble.
cut solid aluminium, and plated in a dazzling
polished nickel finish, which is screen printed
with the TPAS multi-coloured logo. The
sponsor’s details are laser engraved onto the
top surface of the plinth, whilst the winner’s
information is engraved onto the front of the
cylindrical plinth.
The 2019 winners were announced at the
luncheon ceremony, which was hosted by
Diane Modahl MBE, the Olympian athlete.
Nominations were reported to be strong. The
new categories included a Lifetime
Achievement Award, which seems to attract
wide appeal and increasingly appears on
customers’ final engraving lists.
On advice from our EFX account manager
Shelley we have changed the look of the
TPAS awards a number of times throughout
the lifetime of the event and each time the
feedback from the winners has been amazing
– always commenting how different the
trophies look and they even request
duplicates to display around their different
offices!”
Not only did the trophies get a complete
re-vamp but the format of the Awards
changed to a national event with no regional
heats. The Awards ceremony took place 29
March and was held at The Principal Hotel
Manchester; each year the event is set to
relocate to different parts of the country,
increasing its relevance and appeal.
The new trophy design mirrors the TPAS logo
shape but in a three-dimensional format. The
stylised hexagon is manufactured in water-jet
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