Club Honour Awards and Criteria

Queenscliff SLSC highly values our long serving members who have displayed exemplary leadership and voluntary service across the years.

Our Distinguished Service and Life Membership awards are the highest, most respected commendations a club member can receive.

For an award to be considered the following Nomination Forms must be completed. Please read the criteria carefully.

Nominations are to be forwarded to the Life Membership and Service Honours Awards Committee and marked confidential.
The Committee will review the application, supporting documentation and eligibility of the service and details provided and
forward all endorsed nominations to the next AGM for decision.

Nomination for  Life Membership and Distinguished Service of Queenscliff SLSC

Background

Queenscliff SLSC Life Membership and Distinguished Service recognises those individual members who voluntary rendered a distinguished, sustained, and conspicuous service to QSLSC.

Nomination Guidelines

The following nomination guidelines shall be followed for QSLSC Life membership and/or Distinguished Service:

1. Any two members having at least 10 years satisfactory service to the club may nominate a member for Life membership and/or Distinguished Service
2. Please attach additional information if space is not sufficient.
3. Other supporting information may be attached.
4. Nominations are only considered once a year at the Clubs AGM.
5. All nominations are to be completed using this form by 3rd June 2024.

Review Process

1. The QSLSC Honours Committee will review nominations for QSLSC Life Membership and/or Distinguished Service
2. The Committee will provide a recommendation based on the information and present those nominations that are approved by said committee to the QSLSC Management Board.
3. The recommendation must be approved by at least eighty per cent (80%) of the votes cast by those present at the relevant Board meeting and if approved;
4. The nomination shall proceed to the Annual General Meeting and it must be carried by an eighty per cent (80%) majority of the votes cast by those present and entitled to vote
5. The proposers may speak for the nomination at the Board meeting and the Annual General Meeting
6. Unsuccessful Nominations for QSLSC Life Membership and/or Distinguished Service may be re-nominated the following year

How to Nominate

• The proposer is to summarise the nominee’s personal achievements that have impacted on QSLSC
• It is important that the nomination is specific to the nature of the individual’s achievements as separate to achievements as part of a group. Group achievements that the individual was part of can also be listed to support the nomination.
• The nomination should provide substantive evidence to support the claims
• Authoritative sources should be used to validate claims