Awards nights - the good, the bad and the ugly...

In My Humble Opinion
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I need your awards / presentation night stories!

I’ve volunteered to organise my gymnastics club’s (where I work) first awards night. Now, I’ve never organised something like this before – I volunteered because I will be on holidays soon and I’m one of those people who are in their element when they’re busy.

I’m after:

  • Stories of bad and good awards nights, and what made them bad or good;
  • What sort of awards are good to give out;
  • Advice regarding things I might forget; and
  • Advice from anyone who has organised something like this before.

Or, whatever ya wanna say!

We’re having a stand-up dinner beforehand, included in the price, and a disco for the kids afterwards. I’m hoping to make it very short and sweet – although we will have a couple of displays in the middle.

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Everyone seems to forget when they’re organizing these things that NO-ONE likes long speeches. Do what you can to keep people short and sweet. Even one sentence speeches are liked.

That’s all I can think of at the moment based on every ceremony I’ve ever been to putting people to sleep with horrendously long anecdote filled speeches.

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Tries to keep thread’s head above the water.