BTCV has won a top award from Charity Times, the leading business and management magazine.
Naming BTCV as Charity of the Year, the judges said: “With a clear, focused mission, the winner has successfully broken new ground while changing minds and attitudes.”
BTCV was also shortlisted for the Charity Times Corporate Community Local Involvement award with partner National Grid for our excellent Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Leeds.
BTCV entered the BTCV School Green Gym pilot programme to this year's Children and Young People Now Awards which took place on 26.11.2009 in London... and we won!
BTCV was represented by Green Gym development volunteer John Hinze. He reports, "...there was a loud cheer from the massed ranks of local authority representatives when BTCV's name was read out in the nominations".
The great news is that the programme won first prize in the Health and Wellbeing category!
Congratulations to all participating project staff, the 261 children who took part and to the development team for pushing the concept through.
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BTCV has won a 2009 Charity Award in acknowledgement of its achievements over 50 years.
The Charity Awards recognise excellence in the voluntary sector. BTCV’s award, in the Animals and Environment category, marks its dedication to conservation volunteering over five decades.
BTCV is now the world’s largest team of green volunteers, operating throughout the UK and in 26 countries. It makes a significant impact on the UK and International environment by inspiring 300,000 people to look after more than 50,000 places.
BTCV Chief Executive Tom Flood said: “What BTCV does for people and the environment has evolved significantly over our 50 year history. We have developed projects that have a positive impact on how people think, feel and behave towards their environment and their community. We have led the way in bringing together environmental, social and economic aims, transforming them into practical activity. Financially, research shows that £1 invested in our work can yield a measurable social return on investment of around £4 – sometimes more.
“This award recognises the work and achievements of all our volunteers, their communities, and the partner organisations we have worked with since 1959. It rewards their dedication to BTCV and the environment. We all owe each and every volunteer a big thank you.”
BTCV was a runner-up in the ‘Most Improved Trustee Board Category’.
Following a period of active Board self-reinvention which began at the end of 2006, BTCV now has a small and effective board of eight trustees (soon to increase to up to 10), drawn from across the UK and from different backgrounds. Through a new strategic agenda, BTCV has been able to tackle a wide range of issues, such as defining its impact, the outcomes of environmental volunteering and the “UK-ness” of the organisation, recognising the altered political contexts across all four nations. The Board has also committed to living by its environmental values by signing the Third Sector Declaration on Climate Change (which BTCV helped to initiate).
To be shortlisted is valuable recognition of the step-change in governance that the Board has led. BTCV will remain committed to its continuing journey to increase transparency and strategic support and oversight for management.
BTCV’s diversity journey gained commendation in the 'animals and the environment' category at the Charity Awards 2007.
BTCV has made significant strides in advancing diversity within environmental volunteering. It has worked hard to improve volunteering opportunities for less advantaged groups by training and adapting its workforce, and tailoring projects to make them more relevant. In 2006 BTCV supported over 40,000 volunteers from under-represented groups including black and minority ethnic communities, young people at risk and people with mental and physical health issues.
The annual Charity Awards ceremony, sponsored by the Charities Aid Foundation and The Times Public Agenda section, is the most high-profile event in the charity world calendar.
Our Prudential Grass Roots project collected two awards at the Business in the Community Awards 2006 for the North West. The Power in Partnership Award recognised the collaboration between BTCV and Prudential and the positive impact the scheme had on local communities. The project also won a Neighbourhood Renewal Award, supported by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Prudential Grass Roots is a partnership between Prudential plc and BTCV which helps drive regeneration for people and wildlife in communities around shopping centres and business parks across the UK, invested in by Prudential plc and managed by PRUPIM.
A Prudential Grass Roots project at Highfield Country Park, Manchester, won the Community Project Award at the Sustainable Communities Awards 2006.
This award recognises projects where community action has delivered social, economic and environmental goals. Over 400 volunteers helped transform the park from a restored landfill site into a vibrant green space for both wildlife and people.
The Sustainable Communities Awards are run by Local Government chronicle and the Health Service Journal in Association with Defra.
Prudential Grass Roots is a partnership between Prudential plc and BTCV which helps drive regeneration for people and wildlife in communities around shopping centres and business parks across the UK, invested in by Prudential plc and managed by PRUPIM.
The BTCV Green Gym programme won the ‘animals and environment’ category at the Charity Awards 2005.
The Green Gym combines health and fitness concepts with practical environmental conservation, leading to psychological as well as physical benefits for the participant and improved environmental conditions in the communities.
The Charity Awards were organised by Charity Finance Magazine, the leading business publication for the voluntary sector.
BTCV’s Green Health Partnership, a pioneering mental health and environment project, won a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award for voluntary service by groups in the community. Based at Shipley, Derbyshire, the project was a partnership between BTCV, Rethink and Derbyshire County Council.
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