Top awards for community groups
Is your project making a real difference in your local
community? Do you feel it raised community spirit in your area and helped
improve the quality of life of local people? Then enter
the BURA Awards for Community Inspired Regeneration. Sponsored by the
Department of Communities and Local Government for a third year running, these
awards celebrate best practice in community regeneration in urban and rural
areas across the UK.
Projects recognised in the past range from community-based arts or planning initiatives to physical regeneration schemes such as multi-use community centres as well as projects addressing poor quality of housing or acute social and health inequality.
The experience of our previous winners shows that winning awards is one of the most powerful and cost effective marketing tools. Free and simple to enter, the time you spend submitting an entry could gain you recognition as a leader in regeneration and community development, boost staff/volunteer morale and help win future funding or work contracts.
The awards do not provide direct funding, but are well-recognised and winning an award could be just what your scheme or project needs to demonstrate the difference it is making and boost its reputation.
Community Links a small organisation in Scotland said its award had been a morale booster and had showcased its work to important regional and national bodies:
“The recognition we have received since our Award has been a great morale-booster for our staff, our Board, our partner agencies and our communities - but most importantly for our Volunteers.
“The impact it has made to our organisation in raising the profile with our communities, South Lanarkshire Council and Scottish Government has been tremendous. Our volunteer recruitment programme has increased ten fold since the award and Scottish Government have recently selected us as an organisation to be publicised in a forthcoming publication, ‘Empowering Communities: Examples of Good Practice’.”
The Awards are free to enter and anyone involved with a grass-roots regeneration scheme can submit an entry. Visit www.bura.org.uk/awards for more information.
October 15, 2008 is the deadline to submit your entries online.
