ENTRIES ARE OPEN FOR THE 2027 RISK AWARDS!
This is how you can showcase the very best in risk management, resilience planning, and business continuity in your organisation. You or your team could be a winner, so enter now!
There are eight categories to choose from. You can enter more than one category, and most categories are open to non-members of ALARM. Your entries can be based on new projects as well as established programmes of work.
The ALARM Risk Awards present a chance for teams and individuals to promote and share ideas and learnings, and to accept accolades publicly for the excellent work they do.
Winners will be announced at the 2027 ALARM Risk Awards dinner, an important element of ALARM’s National Conference taking place from 27 to 29 June, which in 2027 is themed Managing risk in an era of change.
Staged on Monday 28 June at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel, Manchester, the Awards dinner will be a black-tie event too good to miss.
RISK AWARD WINNERS 2026
Organisational Award winner
The Leadership Potential Skills Build (LPSB) programme was created to transform how Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service identifies and develops future leaders, embedding financial, corporate, and operational risk awareness at every stage. Since 2024, it has supported nearly 190 candidates through realistic, inclusive, and accessible leadership assessments at both leading others and leading the function levels. This innovative process strengthens service resilience by ensuring consistent standards, transparent progression routes and a workforce better equipped to recognise, escalate, and manage risk. Supplementary expert led sessions deepen understanding of governance and risk management oversight. Feedback highlights significant improvements in confidence, fairness, realism, and individual leadership understanding.
Service Delivery Award winner
SEPA recognised a critical gap in Scotland’s ability to transform rapidly acquired satellite imagery into actionable intelligence during emergencies. Increasing climate driven events highlighted the need for faster, clearer situational awareness. Following SEPA’s first activation of the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters, the organisation developed the Satellite Emergency Mapping Service (SEMS)—a coordinated, operational, and user focused system delivering near real time satellite insights to emergency responders. Through new technical infrastructure, a 24/7 response model, and extensive engagement across Scotland’s resilience community, SEMS now strengthens national preparedness, improves decision making, and enhances Scotland’s overall resilience to major environmental incidents.
Resilience Award winner
With the goal of strengthening organisational resilience and ensuring risks are managed consistently and transparently, Beyond Housing introduced an escalation and control assurance process as part of their enhanced risk system. This was driven by a need for greater clarity, accountability, and responsiveness across all levels of the organisation and to give board oversight of emerging risks at the earliest opportunity. Since implementation, Beyond Housing have seen faster escalation of high-priority risks, improved risk reporting and a sharper focus on assurance. This has significantly improved their risk culture and there is now greater confidence among staff in managing and escalating risks, enhancing organisational resilience.
Partnership Award winner
Bristol City Council, Zurich Municipal and PwC formed a tri-party partnership to reposition insurance from a transactional cost to a strategic enabler. In response to market capacity pressure and heightened property and cladding risks, the partners embedded specialist expertise, overhauled governance and data quality, and rebuilt insurer confidence through achievable milestones and leadership engagement. Outcomes included strengthening the internal Risk & Insurance Team, modernised processes, enhanced claims insight (15+ years), improved stakeholder reporting, and a roadmap to reinstating cover for high rise cladded buildings—protecting services, improving resilience and delivering better value for money.
Response Award winner
NYPreCog is an intelligence tool developed by Business Insight that uses established criminal offending patterns to help identify individuals who may be on a trajectory toward more serious crime. By analysing behavioural trends and risk indicators, the system supports early, ethical, and evidence-based intervention. NYPreCog enables policing teams to provide targeted education, guidance, and support at the right moment—helping prevent escalation, reduce harm, and improve long term outcomes for individuals and communities.
Rising Star Award winner
Melissa made an immediate and lasting impact from the moment she joined Beyond Housing just over a year ago. She played a central role in delivering a major organisational project: redesigning the risk escalation process, introducing a new control assurance framework, and supporting the rollout of the new in‑house risk management system. Her ability to build relationships, deliver at pace, and improve processes has transformed how risks are identified, escalated, and monitored. The scale of her contribution was so significant that her role was formally revised in‑year to reflect the additional responsibility she had taken on.
Team of the Year Award winner
The Scottish Government’s Risk Team has a mission to make risk management easy and accessible to all colleagues. The Team brings together a varied skill set and background to work across multi-disciplinary areas to support the development of risk management good practice through easy-to-understand guidance, easy-to-use tools, easy-to-access learning and support. The Risk Team has built and harnessed the power of effective relationships and innovative communication strategies to improve maturity and develop a positive risk culture that surfaces cross-cutting organisational risks and promotes proactive, preventative action.
Professional of the Year Award winner
As Director of Risk at Places for People (PfP), Kitesh Patel has led a transformative overhaul of risk management across the organisation, fostering a culture of accountability and risk awareness. Kitesh’s achievements include designing an innovative ERM framework and implementing the Risk360 tool, which have elevated risk management standards across PfP. This success was made possible by the support of a talented team. Beyond his role at PfP, Kitesh actively contributes to the wider audit and risk sector through his involvement with ALARM’s Housing Committee, the Leicestershire Police Audit & Risk Panel, and as an Independent Committee Member at Acis.
President's Commendation
Ini has been an ambassador for ALARM since first becoming involved as a student member over 10 years ago. Right from when she joined, she was engaged with a range of activities, including speaking at events, contributing towards stronger, the ALARM awards and most recently supporting the Practitioner's Guide series. To deliver this, Ini brought together a fantastic team of academics who provided outstanding content for the benefit of ALARM and its members, with these efforts being recognised and shortlisted at this years' ALARM awards. Ini demonstrates great passion for ALARM and is always willing to support and promote where possible.
Risk Awards 2027 partners
