The My Place Awards celebrate community-led built environment projects that have transformed their locality. Learn more about the 2024 entries below!

My Place Awards: 2024

Monkland Canal Cleanup Project

Stephen McCargo

North Lanarkshire

The Monklands Canal is the oldest canal on the Scottish Canal Network and was at one time the most profitable canal in Scotland. However unfortunately it was left for years to fall into a state of disrepair and was used as a dumping ground for rubbish, The Friends Of Monklands Canal group was set up ...

Strathnaver Museum and Annex

Strathnaver Museum

Highland

For almost 50 years our community has been sharing the story of 8,000 years of history told through the context of the Highland Clearances. Our building, the historic Clachan Church, is central to this story which saw 1,000s of families removed from their homes to make way for commercial sheep farming, as the minister Rev ...

The Inverclyde Shed

Inverclyde

The Inverclyde Shed is a 100% volunteer-run charity with over 300 members that run community workshops and two community gardens to advance the social needs, health and wellbeing of people of all ages and backgrounds living across the Inverclyde area. Members meet, make, grow and share with each other and the wider community, tackling loneliness, ...

Thomas Graham Community Library

Strathblane Community Development Trust

Stirling

In the summer of 2019, frustration over the state of the deteriorating Strathblane Public Library was growing in this Stirlingshire village. Its owner, Stirling Council, was unwilling to replace the 40-year-old portacabin that provided this popular service, leaving the prospect of its eventual closure and replacement with a mobile library service. This seemed wrong for one ...

Trimontium Museum

Scottish Borders Council / Trimontium Trust

Scottish Borders

We (Trimontium Trust) are a volunteer-led, volunteer-run charity (SC050613) that seeks to promote a better understanding of Scotland’s deep past, concentrating on the period of the Roman Iron Age. We do this by means of running a small, but nationally respected, independent museum and freely offering our extensive programme of education and outreach, focused on ...

Vibrant Gala

Energise Galashiels Trust

Scottish Borders

Galashiels is the second largest town in the Scottish Borders. In 2014, the town centre was particularly challenged with the number of vacant units at a record high of 18%, declining footfall year on year and in many parts, was visually unattractive. Energise Galashiels Trust (EGT), is a community-based organisation, established in 2014 to respond to ...

Victoria Park Fountain

Aberdeen

The Friends of Victoria & Westburn Parks is a very active volunteer group with members drawn from the local community. They meet every Saturday morning to work in the parks on projects such as refurbishing areas of the parks, maintaining areas already improved, litter picks, planting bulbs and other new plants. Over the past year, community ...

West Boathouse

Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club/Glasgow City Council

Glasgow

The West Boathouse is on the north bank of the River Clyde at Glasgow Green. It has been home to two of the oldest rowing clubs in the city (Clydesdale and Clyde Amateur Rowing Clubs) since it was built in 1905. By the mid-2010s, the building was in very poor condition – the below-ground timber ...