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Sustainable City
Awards 2008
The Sustainable City Awards were established in 2001by the
City of London and are
led in partnership with 15 organisations, including livery
companies, trade bodies, voluntary sector organisations and
businesses. The 2008 awards, presented by Harriet
Lamb, Executive
Director of The Fairtrade
Foundation, at the Mansion House on 13 February,
recognise and reward outstanding achievement across the three
pillars of sustainable development: the environment, social issues
and the economy.
The City Bridge Trust works in partnership with the
Worshipful Company of
Pattenmakers to run the award category 'Access to Goods and
Services for Disadvantaged Londoners'. The Pattenmakers sponsor the
award and two members of the Trust's Grants Committee sit with them
on the panel to select the category winner and runner-up.
This year's category winner
is New Horizon Youth
Centre which provides a range of services to
London's homeless young people from its base near King's
Cross. The centre enables some of the capital's most disadvantaged
young people to develop the skills, confidence, self-esteem and
motivation to move into adulthood and become active participants in
their communities and society in general. Through its work in
conserving London's most precious resource, its young people, the
judges felt that the New Horizon Youth Centre is an inspiration to
us all.
Runner up this year is
Tower Hamlets Summer
University. THSU was the first of its kind, developing
innovative educational programmes for children and young people
over the long summer break. These opportunities help
participants to make informed, positive decisions that enhance
their lives and the lives of those around them. The learning
from Tower Hamlets has been used as a model, leading to a
growth in high-quality, sustainable Summer Universities in other
London boroughs and in many other cities in the UK.
Congratulations to both of these organisations and to all the
other entrants, which were of a very high quality indeed.
For further information about the Sustainable City Awards,
click here.