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Flourishing Forth is delighted to have won Silver Gilt in this years Keep Scotland Beautiful awards. We also received the RHS Scotland Award for Resilience and Overcoming Adversity, this award was given to us as we have overcome many challenges this year, including damage due to storm Eowyn and the delay in starting the growing season due to refurbishment of our polytunnels. These awards celebrate all the hard work and efforts put in by Forth Initiative and the wider community who help make Forth look as good as possible throughout the year. Thanks to everyone who helps, doing jobs big and small, everyones efforts add up to make our village a great place to live. A massive Thank You to you all. We also won RHS community award for sustainable gardening. From the 250 groups currently registered within the network these 14 groups were nominated by the charity’s volunteer judges and assessors and received a subsequent level of achievement at the Scottish level, of 5 different UK-wide community award categories. The winner of each award was put forward to the RHS Britain in Bloom UK-wide selection panel, and we were awarded an outstanding award for sustainable gardening.
Forth and District Initiative would like to thank Forth Community Resource Centre for providing a wonderful lunch for our judges and guests. Thanks to those who attended, a massive thank you to everyone who helped get us ready for our big day and to everyone who litter picks, waters hanging baskets/barrels and helps make the village look good each year.
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!
A motion was passed in the Scottish Parliament celebrating the success of the South of Scotland in this years Beautiful Scotland Awards.
The Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday the 22nd February. It was well attended and three new members joined the committee. The Chairperson and treasurer remain the same, Colin Stockman has stepped down as secretary and the post is now held by Gillian Hope.
2023
The group was recognised with the Flourishing Forth, Beautiful Scotland large village category silver gilt award
Also discretionary award - the RHS Scotland Award for Overcoming Adversity: being a resident here, brings many challenges, not least due to an exposed location and perceived lack of facilities. However, Flourishing Forth and its partners seek to address these.
The Eco-Hub is a pivotal response to changing community circumstances. Regular deliveries to the local food bank and providers, enable people to access fresh fruit and vegetables on a regular basis. Organisations such as the local resource centre and church provide warm spaces and soup made from this produce.
The Eco-Hub is completely off grid, and the group has accepted this adversity challenge with gusto! They’ve installed solar panels, battery storage, and rainwater harvesting to support an extensive irrigation system. This latter addition has proved invaluable during recent episodes of water scarcity
This follows on from winning an Outstanding in this years "It's your neighbourhood" awards.
2022
Forth was delighted to have won silver gilt in this year's Beautiful
Scotland competition and would like to thank everyone who helped in any
way to make this possible. This years online ceremony recognised the
dedication of volunteers, businesses and local authorities, working in
partnership across the country to improve the places they care for.
Forty-six groups entered the programme in 2022, with 28 achieving Medal
Certificates, 11 winning awards for topping their category, 14 being
recognised with special discretionary awards, as well as the prestigious
Rosebowl.
The awards marked their achievements in planting and growing,
taking care of the local environment and involving the local community.
In addition, 18 groups were awarded with a Certificate of Recognition.
We
also received " RHS Discretionary judges award for Overcoming Adversity" .
These awards are judged by a panel of experts and are given for
outstanding performance in particular areas.
2021 we were very proud to be one of only 6 communities out of 200 to
win an RHS discretionary award for ‘Gardening in a Changing Climate’
these are awarded by Keep Scotland Beautiful at the Scottish level of
the RHS Britain in Bloom campaign, and were open to groups taking part
in our It’s Your Neighbourhood and Beautiful Scotland programmes.
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