Date:
21st July 2009Contact:
Malcolm HankeyOrganisation:
Civic Trust Awards
During the last few weeks, the Civic Trust Awards scheme has received an overwhelming level of support from Government agencies, sponsors, past and future applicants in addition to our committed volunteer assessors.
The news that the scheme would continue has been warmly received by all our collegues, partners and supporters which further demonstrates just how well regarded and respected the Civic Trust Awards continues to be with the built environment community.
We have included just a few of these messages below and would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to contact us and commit their support to the Civic Trust Awards.
“The Homes and Communities Agency remain committed to promoting high quality sustainable development through good design; we have always been supporters of the Civic Trust and its aims and objectives which compliment our own and shall continue to do so. We are particularly supportive of the Civic Trust Awards scheme and its understanding of the important role which heritage plays in sustainable place-making and we wish you every success in the future.”
Kevin McGeough
Policy Manager (Planning and Design)
Homes and Communities Agency
“I am delighted to hear you have rescued The Civic Trust Awards. I can assure you that the RIBA will continue to endorse them and its members help judge them.”
Tony Chapman
Head of Awards
RIBA
“We are particularly appreciative and proud of our Civic Trust Awards. A Civic Trust Award recognises something beyond any individual architectural object, something bigger, something collective. In a period of economic collapse where individual greed and acquisitiveness are unsustainable, the idea of community re-emerges.”
Neil Gillespie
Reiach and Hall Architects
“There was great sadness here at the news of the demise of the Civic Trust and Awards so your e-mail is most welcome. Please be assured of my ongoing support and willingness to participate in this year’s judging.”
Julian Lipscombe
Director
Bennetts Associates Architects
“I’m very happy to hear that the Civic trust awards will continue. I believe they remain the premier award scheme for the UK and I will be honored to serve again as an assessor should I be called. All the very best for the future.”
Derek Fraser
Architect Assessor
University of Edinburgh
“Thank you for your email regarding the future of the Civic Trust Awards. You and your colleagues are to be congratulated on maintaining this important mark of recognition for exemplary work in our built environment.”
Calvin Bruce
Architect Assessor
Paul Davies and Partners
“I am very glad to hear the Civic Trust Awards are still going ahead. They crucially represent the public realm alongside other awards which are more commercial or building orientated.”
Graham Bizley
Architect Assessor
Prewett Bizley Architects
“Thank you for passing on the good news in regard to the continuation of the Civic Trust Awards scheme. Congratulations to you and your colleagues for keeping this very important project alive.”
Peter Carmichael
Architect Assessor
Brock Carmichael Architects
“Thank you for your very welcome and spirited email about the continuance of the Civic Trust Awards. This has to be the one anchor for both the Architectural profession, Local Authorities and Civic Societies that will see a continuance of the Civic Trust movement and all that is good in the built environment. From my position as one trying to drive our local regional body as well as having a say in a new national body, the Awards will be the one positive outcome we will all welcome.”
Adrian Dunning
Community Advisor
Worsley Civic Trust
“I was truly saddened to learn of the demise of the Civic Trust and, so I had supposed, of its Award Scheme. It was, therefore, with a genuine feeling of delight, that I read your e-mail this morning. I should be only too happy to support the work of the Awards Scheme in any way that I can.
May I thank those folk who have managed to preserve the Scheme on behalf everyone who cares for the look and quality of our built environment and wish you and your colleagues the best of good fortune for the future.”
Ross McGregor
Community Advisor
City of London
“I was delighted to see from your email of 2nd July that the Civic Trust Awards will continue, notwithstanding the demise of the Trust itself. The publicity which the awards bring to the build environment are very much welcome, and we would be much the poorer were they to be lost.”
Peter Drummond
National Chairman
The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
“I was sad to hear that the Civic Trust was in administration, but my congratulations to you in guaranteeing the future of the Awards.”
Steve Evans
Inclusive Design Assessor
University of the West of England
“Very pleased to hear that this is continuing and it has our full support”
Elaine Smith
Community Advisor
Blackpool Civic Trust
“The Isle of Wight Council would be very happy to retain contact with the Civic Trust Awards and help in any way. I am pleased to hear the scheme will continue to operate.”
Joanna Murray-Smith
Local Authority Representative
Isle of Wight Council
“I am delighted to hear the Awards will continue and also to confirm my willingness to provide support”
Malcolm Hay
Worcestershire County Council
“First can I just say how very glad we are that the Civic Trust Awards are still continuing. They are still among our most important awards to win as they really seem to confirm that our work has found its place in the wider community.”
Emma Keyte
Wilkinson Ayre Architects
“Many thanks for your email about the continuation of the awards. This is very good news. Well done!”
Robert Sakula
Ash Sakula Architects
“The Civic Trust Awards play a crucial role in recognising excellence in the built environment and I am delighted to hear that they will continue.”
David Tucker
Rivington Street Studio Architecture
“I would be delighted to remain as an Awards Assessor, having been active with you for twenty years or so. I was greatly saddened by the demise of Civic Trust having advocated it for all my years in practice (and having won several Awards too).”
David Simister
Creative Director
AEDAS
