{"id":9523,"date":"2025-03-10T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/?p=9523"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:02:28","slug":"cemetery-of-the-year-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/cemetery-of-the-year-awards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Cemetery of the Year awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our colleagues at BRAMM are delighted to announce the following information &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRAMM Cemetery of the Year Awards 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FREE to enter competition will once again be available on-line from 31 March until 30 June 2025 and open to any Burial Authority (Cemetery or Churchyard) within the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The three categories of Cemeteries in this year\u2019s competition are \u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>A. Large Burial Grounds above 10,000 graves <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>B. Small\/Medium Burial Grounds up to 10,000 graves <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>C. Parish, Town and Community Councils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will once again be using a photographic element to the competition to allow a subjective section to the scoring process (this will only involve the CYA finalists during adjudication).<\/p>\n<p>Extra marks will be awarded for the maintenance and appeal of the Cemeteries and used to determine the Gold and Silver places in their category &#8211; creating another dimension to the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will receive a CYA Gold Award Certificate and a CYA Press Release that can be used to promote your award in your local newspaper, website and social media.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Awards Certificates will be presented to the runners-up along with a CYA Press Release to promote your award.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The competition will also include the following extra two categories in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>D. The Best New CYA Entrant Award: for the highest scoring new entry in each category in CYA 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>E. The BRAMM Bereaved Community Award:\u00a31,000 prize to be won!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your Cemetery or Burial Ground has completed any local initiative which has helped the bereaved in any way within the last 5 years you are eligible to enter for this award.<\/p>\n<p>More details and entry information here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CYA-Competition-2025.pdf\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Please note that ICCM supports, but does not manage, judge or organise any aspect of these awards<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Our colleagues at BRAMM are delighted to announce the following information &#8211; BRAMM Cemetery of the Year Awards 2025 The FREE to enter competition will <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/cemetery-of-the-year-awards-2025\/\" title=\"Cemetery of the Year awards 2025\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9524,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions\/9524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}