Deadline: 1-Sep-25
Nominations are now open for the Scotland’s Regeneration Forum Awards.
The SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration are organised and delivered by SURF in partnership with the Scottish Government.
Purpose
- The purpose of the SURF Awards process is:
- To recognise and reward best practice in community regeneration;
- To promote and disseminate best practice across Scotland as means of sharing knowledge and experience, and thereby enhancing future policy and practice;
- To highlight the important role that regeneration projects have in improving the wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Award Entry Categories
- There are five categories of entry in the 2025 SURF Awards:
- Improving Scotland’s Places: The Improving Scotland’s Places 2025 SURF Awards category will identify, celebrate and share the positive impacts of participative planning and regeneration processes in Scottish places.
- Housing and Regeneration: The 2025 SURF Award for Housing and Regeneration is intended to recognise and promote the achievements of all housing providers in ensuring that their investments are planned and delivered in a way which produces substantial, lasting benefits to resident communities and the shared aims of wider regeneration partners.
- Removing Barriers to Employability: This 2025 SURF Award will be presented to a project that supports community regeneration by providing skills and employability support to help people fulfil their potential.
- Creative Regeneration: This 2025 SURF Awards category will reward best practice in placing artists, arts and creativity at the heart of place-based community regeneration efforts, increasing the potential of places.
- Community Led Regeneration: This 2025 SURF Awards category will reward best practice in a regeneration project which features representatives of a community of place or theme in a leading role.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects can be nominated for a SURF Award by email or post. Applications can either be self-nominated or by a third party.
- Projects are only allowed to enter in one category in any given year.
- The judges will wish to visit at least three shortlisted projects in each category before deciding upon an overall winner.
- They will welcome and acknowledge all applications and will be able to offer limited feedback on request to projects that are not shortlisted.
- The SURF Awards application form and process is designed to be as brief and clear as possible.
For more information, visit SURF.