BCHFAwards
Award Winning Organisation
The Foundation has been successful in achieving awards and recognition for its ground-breaking work during the last few years.
Keep Britain Tidy: Neighbourhood Quality Mark Award 2010
Residents from Upper Horfield working with partners as part of the Pride of Place initiative have successfully achieved a Neighbourhood Quality Mark award following an inspection by Keep Britain Tidy.
The group, set up by BCHF as a way to bring residents and partners together to improve cleaner, safer and greener standards in the neighbourhood has been working hard over the past eighteen months to ensure services in the area are effective and can respond to local demands. It secured a financial contribution from Bristol City Council in 2008 to apply for the award and has been working on a local Neighbourhood Action Plan for Upper Horfield since then.
Overall Winners: Guardian Public Services Award 2006
BCHF won the overall best public sector organisation and finance and procurement category in the Guardian 2006 awards for our innovative approach to funding the Upper Horfield regeneration scheme without external public money.
The judges said: "The project demonstrates a complete change of approach and direction. It is a textbook cross-sector regeneration partnership with the added ingredient of a crucial role for a credit union” It deals with real issues, takes account of tenants' needs and is very good value." It went on to take the overall accolade because of the potential to repeat the successful model in housing renewal work across the country. David Brindle, chair of the judging panel, said: "The essence of these awards is that excellence in our public services should be replicated - and the Upper Horfield partnership deserves to be replicated widely."
Best Overall Community Heritage Project 2006
BCHF were overall winners in the SW 2006 HLF Awards for the Capturing Memories Project. The history of the Upper Horfield estate from the residents’ perspective was recorded using local residents as interviewers and photographers. CDs were produced of people telling their history and hopes for the future together with photographs. These were all exhibited in one of the empty homes before it was demolished. The judges felt that the Capturing Memories project redefined and reinterpreted heritage and what it can do, and underlined that heritage belongs to everyone. “
