Notts station Facebook page wins local award

A Facebook page set up by a station in Nottinghamshire has scooped a local award.

Stapleford Fire Station’s page won Local Website of the Year in the Best of Broxtowe Awards. The awards were set up and run by the local authority, Broxtowe Borough Council, and the local paper, The Nottingham Post.

Jack Grasby, Communications Officer at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: "The page was officially set up in January as part of a project delivered by the comms team to roll out individual Facebook pages to stations, the caveat being that there needed to be staff on station willing to run the page and also be given some training and guidance on how to effectively use the pages.

"I’ve since been out to deliver the training on each of the interested stations (one by one to ensure each is set up properly and to help get them off to a good start) and we’ve now got 10 stations officially on Facebook – with a few more to come very soon which will take us to half of all our stations being on there.

"It is firefighters that have been coming up with most of the ideas for posts and getting them on there, following the guidance we’ve given them, and we have helped when needed with things such as proof reading, double checking, approving more sensitive posts etc. Stapleford is definitely one of the leading station’s with regards to FB and have done a cracking job, as evidenced by the award."