British Sign Awards 2020 to run online

The British Sign Awards 2020 presentation event, due to take place at the Athena in Leicester on 12 November, will now take place online instead.

“We believe cancelling the event is the right thing to do under the current, unprecedented circumstances,” said Ray Hirst, director of the independent awards scheme. “According to a briefing by Public Health England, the crisis could last until Spring 2021 and the latest news is that the social distancing will have to remain in place, in one form or another, for up to six months. We hope the health crisis will have passed its peak by November, but even if that proves to be the case, the crisis will not be over and it would be highly irresponsible to organise an event that would bring together several hundred people in what would be an ideal environment for transmission of the virus. For this year, the awards will now run entirely online. Go to www.britishsignawards.org.