REGENWM
RegenWM Prizes: Showcase your good practice
RegenWM Prizes celebrate the success of a wide variety of regeneration projects across the West Midlands. RegenWM Prizes recognise and share the innovative ideas and personal commitment that are being turned into regeneration outcomes for the region; outcomes which are increasingly recognised nationally.
The Prizes are an ideal opportunity to benchmark your project's effectiveness, as all entries are assessed by independent panels of regional experts.
The closing date for RegenWM Prizes 2009 was 8 September 2009.
This year's Prizes categories are:
- Creating outstanding places
- Successful community engagement
- Best regeneration team
- Most transferable good practice
- Environment and people
- Good practice in equality and diversity
Details of this years winners and highly commended projects will be posted on this page. Also coming soon is our online catalogue of entries.
Prizes 2008 winners - update
Full write ups of the 2008 category winners and the shortlisted schemes are available to download in the case studies section of this site.
Each of the Prizes winners received £1000 to spend on their project.
Bloomsbury Cyber Junction, winner of the Successful Community Engagement category, is a project set up by local residents providing youth activities and computer-based learning. They have used the prize money to provide advice and support to local residents who are unemployed or suffering from debt problems.
Winner of the Environment and People category was Ideal For All for its Salop Drive market garden, where residents and disabled people have reclaimed and regenerated a three-acre derelict allotment site. This now includes a glasshouse, polytunnels, community gardens, a wildlife area and mini allotments. Its value to the health of people in the area is recognised by Sandwell Primary Care Trust via mainstream funding. Ideal For All is consulting with local school children and other users to decide how the prize money will be best spent.
The Safer Stronger Communities Fund, run by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council won the Best Regeneration Team prize. Through a holistic programme including education, family support, youth work and employment related activities, the fortunes and crime levels of the Tibbington estate in Tipton have improved dramatically. The prize money will be used to support the ‘Game Plan' project, working with young people who are NEET (not in education, employment or training) and are getting involved in the regeneration of their area.
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry's TALent programme won the Good Practice in Equality and Diversity category. The programme supports business start-ups and has been particularly effective at attracting women to the programme. The £1000 prize money will be used to provide diversity training for the programme's client-facing staff.
Urban Splash, winner of the Creating Outstanding Places prize for the regeneration of Fort Dunlop, opted to make a charitable donation with the prize money. The £1000 was divided between the Norman Laud Association in Wylde Green, and Big Brum TIE Company, a theatre in education group in Castle Vale. Fort Dunlop has been reborn as an iconic mixed-use commercial building which has been 97 per cent let two years ahead of the original schedule.
Think Local, funded by the eight Staffordshire district councils, has over 25 000 business members and promotes inter-trading amongst local businesses in Staffordshire. Winner of the Most Transferable Good Practice category, the Think Local Partnership opted to give the prize money to Young Enterprise in Staffordshire, a charity which develops a sense of enterprise amongst young people. The money will be used to help fund their Company Programme competition where high school pupils set up and run companies to provide real products and services.