Entries are now invited for the annual Greener Gateway Community Awards.
The community awards programme has evolved to offer those communities and community-led projects, who take pride in their local environment, the opportunity to celebrate their contribution to keeping our communities vibrant and recognise their efforts in making the region more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Awards
This year the focus is on three community award categories:
- Border Biodiversity Award, for efforts in supporting and increasing biodiversity
- Cultivating Communities Award, for community food growing
- Sustainability Award, for demonstrating best practice in regard to sustainability
A Schools Award section enables local primary and secondary to demonstrate areas of work or projects which link to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, food growing and/or community partnership working.
Further information and entry forms can be found on our Greener Gateway Community Award webpages.
Entries to the Greener Gateway Community Awards close on 7 August. Judging will take place around mid-August. Entries for the Schools Award close on 29 May.
Carol Cooke, Parks and Environment Manager
“These annual awards are a fantastic opportunity for communities and local groups to highlight the work they do to support biodiversity and sustainability and for us to celebrate what is largely volunteer-led activity right across the Scottish Borders.
“We have listened to feedback and noting the decreased number of entrants to the settlement awards over recent years we have decided to focus on the thematic award categories only. For communities who have previously entered our Greener Gateway settlement awards, Keep Scotland Beautiful are running the ‘Beautiful Scotland’ awards.
“We look forward to receiving lots of entries from across our communities and schools for our awards and encourage our ‘In Bloom’ groups to separately enter the Keep Scotland Beautiful awards to ensure that their efforts to make their towns and villages as vibrant as possible get the national recognition they deserve.”