Deadline: 5-Sep-22
Nominations are now open for the 2022 Scotland’s Regeneration Forum (SURF) Awards.
It provides an opportunity for regeneration projects of all sizes to demonstrate value to funders and partners, support team-building and develop a national profile. SURF Award winners also receive additional showcase opportunities through SURF activities throughout the following year.
Purposes
The purpose of the SURF Awards is:
- To recognise and reward best practice and innovation 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 role that regeneration projects have in improving the wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Categories
- Creative Regeneration: This 2022 SURF Awards category will reward best practice in placing artists, arts and creativity at the heart of community regeneration efforts. This includes highlighting creative organisations and projects which support the ongoing recovery and rebuilding of their communities.
- Housing and Regeneration: The 2022 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.
- Community Led Regeneration: This 2022 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.
- Supporting Youth Employability: This 2022 SURF Award will be presented to a project that supports community regeneration by providing skills and employability support to help young people aged 16‐29 years fulfil their potential.
- Improving Scotland’s Places: The Improving Scotland’s Places 2022 SURF Awards category will identify, celebrate and share the positive impacts of participative planning and regeneration processes in Scottish places.
Why You Should Enter?
- Demonstrating Value: The SURF Awards are widely recognised as the most prestigious in the field of Scottish community regeneration. Past winning and shortlisted projects report that recognition in the SURF Awards process has been beneficial in demonstrating their success and value to partner bodies and funding agencies.
- Recognition and Team Building: The SURF Awards process is helpful in increasing wider awareness of the often underappreciated hard work that goes into regeneration projects large and small. It also supports team‐building by recognising the contribution of partners, management, staff and volunteers.
- Showcasing Success: Winning projects in each of five award categories will be presented with a certificate from a leading Scottish Government Minister at a high‐profile celebratory dinner event on Thursday 8th December in Glasgow. Winning projects will also be showcased in a variety of SURF and Scottish Government events, publications and online channels in 2023.
- National Profile: A special SURF Awards publication will highlight all shortlisted entries. It will be widely distributed to over 3000 regeneration stakeholders and key policy‐makers across Scotland.
Eligibility Criteria
It is open to all community regeneration projects in Scotland that are currently in place or that have been completed within two years of the closing date.
For more information, visit https://www.surf.scot/surf-awards/