Category Archives: Awards

European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage /Europa Nostra Awards

Each year, Europa Nostra and the European Union reward the best of cultural heritage achievements. Through the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, Europa Nostra celebrates excellence and dedication by architects, craftsmen, volunteers, schools, local communities, heritage owners and media.

The awards celebrate exemplary restorations and initiatives of the many facets of Europe’s cultural heritage in categories ranging from the restoration of monuments and buildings, their adaptation to new uses, to urban and rural landscape rehabilitation, archaeological site interpretations, and care for art collections. Also awarded are research and education projects, dedicated service to heritage conservation by individuals and organisations, and education and awareness raising initiatives related to cultural heritage.

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The Georgian Group

These Architectural Awards, sponsored by international estate agents Savills, recognise exemplary conservation and restoration projects in the United Kingdom and reward those who have shown the vision and commitment to restore Georgian buildings and landscapes. Awards are also given for high-quality new buildings in Georgian contexts and new architecture in the Classical tradition.

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The Heritage Funding Directory

The Heritage Funding Directory is a comprehensive guide to sources of financial support (and more) for anyone seeking to undertake creative projects connected with the UK’s heritage. It includes details of the majority of substantive sources of funding from central and local government, non-governmental agencies and grant-making trusts which specialise in supporting heritage projects, as well as many which provide such funding within a wider remit.’

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The Historic Gardens Foundation Prizes

The HGF decided to award this prize in order to celebrate the guidebook in all its forms, recognising that to enjoy a historic park or garden to the full, the visitor needs to know not only the whereabouts of the toilets and tearoom, but also the garden’s history and the significance of its design. We wanted something that could be informative but also that could be held in the hand and read with easy enjoyment.

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Historic Scotland Sponsor Heritage Award

Do you know a young person with a passion for the historic environment?

Maybe they speak proudly about the beauty of Scotland’s castles, perhaps they devote their time to helping others discover history or brave the elements to take part in archaeological digs.

These are the very people that Historic Scotland is looking for to enter the Heritage category of Young Scot Awards. The Historic Scotland Heritage award will honour those who have worked to preserve and promote the understanding of our landscape, monuments and historic architecture.

Entrants must be aged between the ages of 12 and 22 and committed to safeguarding and promoting the importance of the historic environment.

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The Lankelly Chase Foundation

The LankellyChase Foundation works to promote change which will improve the quality of people’s lives. We focus particularly on areas of social need to help the most disadvantaged in our society to fulfil their potential. We are realistic, balancing what we seek to do with all the financial and human resources at our disposal.

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Royal Archaeological Institute

The Royal Archaeological Institute has research funds available each year as follows:

  • RAI Research Fund Awards up to £5,000 are available each year.
  • The Tony Clark Memorial Fund Up to £500 is available each year for scientific elements of archaeological projects.
  • The Bunnell Lewis Research Fund Up to £750 is available each year for projects which preferably involve the excavation and exploration of Roman sites.

RAI Dissertation Prizes

The RAI awards a dissertation prize each year for either an undergraduate (Tony Baggs Award) or master’s dissertation, on a rotating basis. The award goes to the best dissertation on a subject concerning the archaeology or architectural history of Britain, Ireland and adjacent areas of Europe.

Cheney Bursaries

As a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students to attend RAI meetings and conferences.
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1851 Royal Commission

The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 offers major awards to scientists and engineers for research, development and design. Its aims are to support education for the benefit of productive industry
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RIBA Awards

The RIBA Awards have been running continuously since 1966 and are judged and presented locally. No matter the shape, size, budget or location, RIBA Award winning schemes set the standard for great architecture all across the country.
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Rosemary Cramp Fund

The Fund was set up on the retirement of Professor Rosemary Cramp from the Chair of Archaeology at Durham University, to honour her many achievements and contributions to archaeology and heritage. The fund makes grants to individuals and organisations that put forward projects which fall within its scope; and where there is a strong emphasis on innovation.
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RTPI

George Peplar International Award
This biennial Award is awarded to young people under the age of 30 who wish to undertake a short period of study (say 3 – 4 weeks) on a particular aspect of spatial planning.

RTPI- Young Planner of the Year
The judges will seek to identify younger planners who can be promoted as role models. They must have been born on or after 1 January 1975, have achieved a great deal in their career when compared with their contemporaries, and promise even more for the future. Candidates at the date of entry and of presentation must be members of the Institute (either a Student, Licentiate, Technical, Associate, Chartered, Fellow or a Legal Associate)

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The Society of Architectural Historian of Great Britain

The Society makes a number of awards, both in recognition of outstanding scholarship and in support of new research and publication.
Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion

This is the SAHGB’s annual prize for books on architectural history.

Essay Medal

The essay medal is an annual prize for student work.

Publication/Research Bursaries

The SAHGB offers a number of awards for scholars towards publication and research costs. Details about how to apply are available here.

Postgraduate Scholarships
Thanks to several legacies to the SAHGB, a number of scholarships are regularly available for postgraduate students on research degrees in architectural history.

Conference and Symposium Bursaries

Students may apply for assistance towards the cost of their attendance at both the SAHGB annual conference in September, and the annual symposium in May.

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Vernacular Architecture Group

Memorial Essay Prize
In memory of the giants who founded or belonged to the Vernacular Architecture Group in its early days, and prompted by the death of Pauline Fenley, former editor of Vernacular Architecture and a keen promoter of good writing, the Group has established a memorial essay prize. Through this it is hoped to encourage articles from those who have not previously published in national or international journals.
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Conference Bursaries
The Group’s conferences are where members meet to study buildings and discuss their findings. Bursaries are offered each year to enable a registered student or a professional in the early years of his or her career to attend the spring conference. Details on how to apply for a bursary for the next spring conference will be published here in due course.
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ACE Awards

Now Closed for 2011

The ACE Awards are designed to celebrate the successes and diversity of architectural and artistic projects in religious buildings throughout Britain. ACE gives three biennial Awards of £3,000 each.
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Awards For Presentation Of Heritage Research

Archaeologists, buildings historians and others concerned with understanding and preserving our heritage spend much of their time and energy on research, which is published in a flood of monographs and articles in specialist journals.  Much of this fascinating work remains unknown to the wider public, whose understanding and support are crucial to the preservation of our heritage.

The purpose of the awards is to encourage researchers to present their research on British and Irish archaeology, historic buildings, and heritage conservation, to the wider public. Short-listed entrants present their research to a public audience as part of a day of presentations; they are judged by the audience and by a panel of judges.

Sponsored by the Royal Archaeological Institute, English Heritage, Cadw, Historic Scotland, the Environment and Heritage Service (an agency within DOE(NI), and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Republic of Ireland).

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