Award Winning Organisation

The Foundation has been successful in achieving awards and recognition for its ground-breaking work during the last 5 years. .

BCHF recognised in Good Practice case studies

Find out what IDeA - the govt's Improvement and Development Agency - say about BCHF's redevelopment of Upper Horfield. View the whole publication here (we are featured on page 38): www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/8222866

BCHF's redevelopment of Upper Horfield is also featured as a case study on the SW Creating Excellence website. Click here to view.

Overall Winners: Guardian Public Services Award 2006

The Foundation 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

The Foundation 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 be 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. “

 

 

What House 2005 – Best Partnership Development

The Upper Horfield regeneration project  scooped a prestigious What House? Award as one of the top schemes of its kind in the UK in 2005. .

 

The Upper Horfield project won a Silver accolade in the What House? 2005 Awards, sponsored by the Daily Telegraph and known as ‘ The Oscars’ of the house building industry. The judges praised for showing ‘a depth and breadth of quality product and were acclaimed for showing ‘a supreme mark of excellence in new homes.’

 

 

UK Housing Awards 2004

 

The Upper Horfield Regeneration Project was runner up in the 2004 CIOH UK Award as one of the five best regeneration projects in the country.