Celebration of small but significant acts of Hadleigh area heritage care as new awards launched
By Derek Davis
8th Jun 2021 | Local News
We know what a fabulously rich heritage there is in historic Hadleigh and its surrounding villages and you can now champion those who have gone above and beyond in keeping that alive.
The county's leading heritage charity, the Suffolk Preservation Society, has announced its new awards aimed at highlighting the work of local people and communities in looking after Suffolk's local historic places and buildings.
"Sometimes people don't always recognise the great work they are doing, as heritage is sometimes - wrongly - thought to be all about stately homes or whole conservation areas involving legions of experts" explained Fiona Cairns, the Society's director.
"Yet, the reality is that the vast majority of good conservation work in Suffolk is being carried out by or under the direction of local people. Whether that be one person or a group working and caring for part of their local heritage, such as tending gravestones in their local churchyard, a listed building owner going the extra mile in conservative repair, or a group who have worked to protect a special historic place from decline or insensitive development.
"These are the very heritage champions that our latest awards seek to recognise, promote and congratulate."
The Suffolk Heritage Champion Awards is set to go live on 21 June - Suffolk Day - and will be open for submissions for three months, with the winners announced towards the end of October.
According to Bethany Philbedge, the Society's planning officer: "We believe these awards are long overdue. When we ran our Suffolk Beauty photographic competition a few years ago, we were very pleased by the number and quality of entries. We're convinced that the Heritage Champion Awards will generate a similar level of interest.
"Most communities in Suffolk have a real sense of stewardship and place and want to hand on our precious heritage to future generations in a better condition than when they found it."
The Heritage Champion Awards comprise two categories:
⦠Award for an individual's contribution to a heritage building or site
⦠Award for best community campaign to protect a heritage building or the historic environment Fiona Cairns added: "We want to make entering the awards as simple and as straightforward as possible. So, we'll be accepting self-nominations, as well as nominations by third parties and will only require a maximum of 200 words and a couple of pictures, one of which should be a photograph of the person or people being nominated, and one of the project." More details about the entry requirements for each of the Heritage Champion Awards categories will be available shortly on the Society's website at www.suffolksociety.org
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