Engineering:Loo of the Year Awards

Loo of the Year Awards
Awarded for	Recognising the best toilets in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands
Country	United Kingdom
First awarded	1987 (1987)
Website	loo.co.uk

The Loo of the Year Awards are run to celebrate the best public toilets in the United Kingdom, and promote high standards.

It receives sponsorship from a number of companies involved in providing products and services to washroom providers.

History

First introduced in 1987, the Loo of the Year Awards competition has run annually, except for 1993.

Eligibility criteria

Any type of public facility - 'away from home' toilet) can be nominated for consideration. There are sixty one different award categories in all. Eligible facilities can be located in England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland.

Anyone can submit a nomination—staff, customers, visitors, managers, owners or contractors—but owners or managers must authorize entries.

Judging criteria

After an unannounced inspection from an authorized Loo of the Year Awards Inspector, nominees are graded on a scale from Silver to Diamond Grades are awarded based on one hundred and one criteria, and are judged on both male and female facilities, as well as any baby changing and accessible facilities provided. The criteria include cleanliness, decor, signage, accessibility and customer care.

Awards

Awards are given in one of sixty one categories. An entrant receiving a Diamond or possibly a Platinum grading will be considered for one a number of N major National Awards in each of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.:

• National Category Winners (up to sixty-one categories in each country)
• National Accessible Toilet Winner
• National (Baby) Changing Facilities Winner
• Public Toilet Entries - National Winner
• Individual Category Entries - National Winner
• Changing Places Toilet Entries - National Winner
• Space to Change Toilet Entries - National Winner
• Eco Friendly Toilet - National Winner
• Local Authority Award - National Winner
• Toilets in Education - National Winner
• Hygiene Room - National Winner

Other awards include:

Individual UK Loo of the Year Trophy

The winner of this award is selected from one of the eight national winners in the Public Toilet Entries and the Individual Category Entries categories above.

UK Corporate Provider Trophy

The winner of this award is selected from organizations or authorities entering ten or more different locations and winning five or more five-star awards.

Champions' League – Standards of Excellence Awards

This award is presented to organizations or local authorities winning five or more five-star awards and who, in the inspectors' opinion, are maintaining a consistently high standard of management in all their Loo of the Year Awards entries.

Local Authority Premier League

Membership in the League is granted to the top twenty local authority public toilet providers.

Attendant of the Year Awards

These "people awards" are open to all full-time attendants, as well as employed cleaning staff and retained cleaning contractors. Separate Attendant of the Year Award Certificates are awarded in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with Commended and National Winners for each country.

In addition, the overall UK winner (either an individual, in-house cleaning team or external contractor) is awarded the UK Washroom Cleaner of The Year Trophy.

Overall "Loo of the Year" trophy winners

Gatwick Airport toilets in 2018; the airport was the 2016 "Loo of the Year" winner

The winner of this category is presented with a Golden Loo Seat Trophy.

Year	Winner	Sector
1987	Hatton Gardens Hotel, Upton St Leonards	Hospitality
1988	The Lido, Worthing	Local Authority
1989	Children's World Stores	Retail
1990	Eagle and Child, Gwaenysgor, N.Wales	Hospitality
1991	Grampian Road, Aviemore, Scotland	Local Authority
1992	Welcome Break Services, M3, Farnborough	Transport
1993	No Competition
1994	Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon	Heritage
1995	City of Westminster Council	Local Authority
1996	Portsmouth Historic Dockyard	Heritage
1997	The Manor Hotel, St. Albans	Hospitality
1998	Eurotunnel, Folkstone	Transport
1999	The National Trust, Gibside Estate, Tyne & Wear	Heritage
2000	The Oracle, Reading	Retail
2001	JD Weatherspoon	Hospitality
2002	East Lothian Council, Scotland	Local Authority
2003	The Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall	Leisure
2004	The Highland Council, Scotland	Local Authority
2005	Moto Hospitality	Transport
2006	The Camping and Caravaning Club	Holiday Parks
2007	The Trafford Centre, Manchester	Retail
2008	Asda Stores	Retail
2009	McDonald's	Hospitality
2010	JD Wetherspoon	Hospitality
2011	Ceredigion County Council	Local Authority
2012	Staffordshire County Council	Local Authority
2013	Brighton & Hove City Council	Local Authority
2014	Danfo UK	Local Authority
2015	We Clean	Cleaning & FM
2016	Gatwick Airport	Transport
2017	ABM	Cleaning & FM
2018	J D Wetherspoon	Hospitality

See also

• The Good Loo Guide

External links

• Loo of the Year Award