Awards

Awards and Successes

The residents of Forth come from a Mining background. The majority of them have worked hard to create a good livestyle for their families, they keep homes and gardens to a high standard – this proven by the success in the South Lanarkshire Gardens Competition where various streets and individual homes have won awards.

Forth has also achieved many successes in Beautiful Scotland which is a long-established community environmental improvement campaign run in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. The programme supports community groups across Scotland as they seek to improve and enhance their local environment. Beautiful Scotland is a competition with an extensive set of categories and awards, and its winners can progress to the UK-wide Britain in Bloom competition and thereafter to the international Entente Florale.

          

 The awards won to date are:

2007: Finalists in the Evening Times Local Heroes Awards Forth & District Initiative were named Community Group of Lanarkshire 2007

2008: Forth & District Initiative gain a certificate of merit in the Beautiful Scotland Neighbourhood awards

2009: Flourishing Forth ECO Project won the group project award in South Lanarkshire Councils annual garden competition. Forth was the south region winner of the Calor Village of the Year award. Beautiful Scotland award for sustainability. Beautiful Scotland large village category silver award winners

2010: Beautiful Scotland large village category silver award winners, Flourishing Forth ECO Project again won the group project award in South Lanarkshire Councils annual garden competition

2011: Beautiful Scotland large village category silver award winners

2012: Beautiful Scotland large village category silver award winners

2013: Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award winners.

2014 :Community Service Award : Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award winners : Community Involvement Award (Beautiful Scotland)

2017 :Keep Scotland Beautiful : Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award winners

2018 :Keep Scotland Beautiful : Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award winners : Forth Eco Site Its your Neighbourhood Award, Level 5 Outstanding

2019 :Keep Scotland Beautiful : Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award winners: Flourishing Forth was presented with the David Welch Memorial Award for Something Special.
Forth Eco Site Its your Neighbourhood Award, Level 5 Outstanding and Certificate of Distinction

2020 :Keep Scotland Beautiful : Flourishing Forth, Certificate for Feeding your Community
Flourishing Forth, Cerificate of Recognition
Forth Eco Site, Certificate of Recognition.

2021 :Keep Scotland Beautiful : Flourishing Forth, Cerificate of Recognition
Keep Scotland Beautiful : and The Royal Horticultural Society, Britian in Bloom
Forth Eco Site, RHS Gardening in a Changing Climate Award

2022 :Keep Scotland Beautiful : Flourishing Forth, Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award winner
Keep Scotland Beautiful : Flourishing Forth for the Eco Site, Jim Murdie award for Sustainability. 
Forth Eco Site Its your Neighbourhood Award, Level 5 Outstanding


       

2023 :Keep Scotland Beautiful : Flourishing Forth, Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award winner
Keep Scotland Beautiful :  RHS Discretionary judges award for Overcoming Adversity
Its Your Neighbourhood Award 2023, Flourishing Forth -Eco Site, Level 5 Outstanding and Certificate of Distinction



 

2024 :Keep Scotland Beautiful : Flourishing Forth, Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award winner
Keep Scotland Beautiful :  Discretionary Celebration Award.




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Agm
The Forth & District Initiative AGM will be held in the Small Church Hall at 7pm, on 21st November 2024, Everyone Welcome

Keep Scotland Beautiful  

.Flourishing Forth received Silver Gilt at this years Keep Scotland Beautiful ceremony in Duthie Park, Aberdeen. We also won this years theme "Celebration & Cake" award. We achieved this by working alongside various groups in the community, and by celebrating them in some way. Thank you to everyone who helps keep Forth looking good throughout the year, it really is much appreciated!

Christmas Lights

This years switch on took place on Sunday 17th November 2024, at 4.30pm and was carried out by Agnes Gallacher.
Ten new lights were added in 2022, our 20th Anniversary year as these needed to be replaced.
Cloburn Quarry very kindly donated the money so we could purchase the ten lights and we are enormously grateful to them.

Volunteering

We work with residents of all ages for the benefit of our community.The group have a wider remit which includes restoration of our parks and regeneration of our village, participating in Beautiful Scotland and other award schemes.
If you have some spare time & could help with weeding at the eco site or around the village, planting our barrels & hanging baskets in the summer or if you could water the ones near where you live, please get in touch.

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