My Place 2025 open for entries!

The 2025 My Place Awards and My Place Photography Competition are both open for entries!

The My Place Awards celebrate excellence in community-led placemaking in Scotland.

The My Place Awards have two categories:

  1. Community-led Projects: recognises recent community-led built environment projects that have transformed their locality. This includes new buildings; historic buildings or monuments that have been reused or refurbished; designed public realm schemes, such as street works and parks; and designed landscapes such as gardens or public green spaces.
  2. Community Champions: celebrates individuals across Scotland who have made a significant contribution to their communities through achieving positive change in the local area, whether through placemaking, built environment projects, improving public spaces or increasing access to spaces and places by communities.

Award winners are celebrated at an award ceremony attended by major stakeholders in the built environment and heritage sectors, as well as representatives from local and national government.

The deadline for entries is 30 April 2025 – learn more about the My Place Awards.

The My Place Photography Competition is a Scotland-wide built environment photography competition for school age young people (4-18).

If you’re a teacher, home educator or leader of a youth group, having your young people participate in the competition encourages them to explore their local area and experiment with using photography as a means of creative expression. The competition also links to multiple experiences and outcomes identified in Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, and all entries to the competition will be featured in a public exhibition.

The deadline for entries is 30 May 2025 – learn more about the My Place Photography Competition.