We are looking for organisations or partnerships that have introduced skills development programmes that bring together professionals and practitioners through programmes that ultimately lead to changes in approaches to learning and practice. In particular, we are looking for programmes that actively encourage cross-sector or cross-disciplinary learning and demonstrate the benefits of working together. The judges will be looking at the design of the programme and for evidence of the benefits to participants and the organisations in which they work.
We are looking for innovative ways of engaging local people in decision-making around sustainable communities issues. In particular, we are looking for engagement that is more than consulting or informing: it should have increased the number of people who take part in civic debate. We are looking for new forms of engagement, which might include: tailoring to particular demographic groups (e.g. working parents, under-16s, low-income pensioners); using new technology to create online dialogues; or changes within the organisation initiating the engagement to enable staff to have more contact with citizens and users. The judges will be looking for evidence of building engagement and local ownership as opposed to consulting, increased participation and impact on decision-making.
We are looking for an individual or group that has engaged with young people, raising their aspirations while changing attitudes and behaviour or a young person or group of young people that have inspired a community through active involvement leading others to make positive changes.
Judges will be looking at the impact the individual or group has had on young people or the community they live in.
Winner: Young People's Voice @Allsorts LGBTU Youth Project, Brighton
We are looking for organisations that have involved residents or service users to implement carbon reduction measures in developments/communities (residential and non-residential). Entrants will have to demonstrate the extent the measures taken have reduced the carbon footprint of the development. They will also need to show how the project encouraged individuals to reduce their own carbon footprint. The judges will be looking at the overall carbon reductions and for approaches that designed low carbon living into the development.
Winner: Cornwall Sustainable Energy Partnership, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
We are looking for a public-private partnership that has established holistic processes for creating mixed communities that integrate planning and design through to sales and lettings; and beyond to local management and governance. The judges will be looking for evidence of a strong partnership that from the outset looked beyond the end of the design and construction phase to how the community will evolve and be maintained as a sustainable mixed-community as it matures.
We are looking for the school that has gone the furthest beyond its traditional role and format to redefine its place in the community and provide an example for other schools. The judges will be looking at how the school's pupils have been motivated and supported to use the Extended School programme to improve the local community or provide local services. They will be looking for radical innovation and leadership as well as solid feasibility analysis, engagement with the local community, and clear plans for delivery.
Winner: Marlowe Academy and Newington Estate, Ramsgate
We are looking for a public body, partnership or similar organisation that has led the way at the local or regional level to create and implement a shared vision of place. This shared vision will have helped build consensus and established the area as a great place to live, work, visit or do business. The judges will be looking for a strong local vision that is easily explained and understood by others; and for evidence of positive impacts, such as public or business perception, responses to marketing campaigns or increased visits and use.
Winner: River Nene Regional Park, Northamptonshire
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