Published 19 February 2021 The outcomes of the prestigious 2020 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration were announced last night at a virtual celebratory presentation event streamed live via Vimeo. Ninth Valley Having postponed the annual sit down dinner in the Grand Central Hotel in December, SURF delivered a virtual Awards Dinner for the first time in its 23-year history. Representatives of the five category winning initiatives for 2020 were personally congratulated on their inspiring work by the Scottish Government’s cabinet secretary for local government and communities, Aileen Campbell MSP. The SURF Awards are delivered each year by SURF, a regeneration forum with over 300 cross-sector member organisations across Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Government. The purpose is to highlight, celebrate and share the achievements of initiatives that address physical, social and economic challenges in communities across Scotland. Given the impacts of the pandemic, the awards had a particular focus in 2020 on celebrating organisations and communities who had continued to deliver projects and services throughout a year like no other. SURF’s panel of 20 independent judges is drawn from national regeneration bodies and community groups. They carefully assessed all of the varied SURF Awards nominations in…
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