The New Almshouse Association Awards are now open for your 2022 submissions!

The awards have been updated to include environmental innovations and to provide clear definitions for each award to ease the award submission path. They will continue to represent recognition for real innovation and achievement within the almshouse movement.

The upgrading and improvement of the environmental impact of buildings is now paramount. Remodelling almshouses or building new almshouses in a way that retains the integrity of their historic buildings is particularly challenging, requires great skill to navigate. Our members are doing an incredible job to ensure their almshouses are well maintained and kept warm and welcoming, whilst also adhering to environmental criteria.

With this in mind, The Almshouse Association Awards recognise and reflect the ever-growing environmental aspects that our members are taking on board when redeveloping or building new. The also encapsulate and honour all the tremendous hard work of our member charities, highlighting the wonderful innovations and life-enhancing projects that are taking place throughout our membership.

The four awards are:

We hope you enjoy being a part of these new awards and you will find, over the coming months, we will be engaging with you to support you with your submissions. We know so many of you have such incredible sites and we will be encouraging you to share these with your peers by partaking in the awards.

Our aim is to build on the quality and high standards of our previous award winners, setting goals and establishing, in many cases, best practices within the almshouse movement. 

Please click here to go to our Award pages where you will find criteria, guidelines and submission formats along with tips and design briefs and former award winners.

Today, more than ever, it’s so important to recognise the vital role almshouses and almshouse trustees play in today’s society. We look forward to receiving your submissions!

The deadline for submissions is 31st January 2023.

posted 6 October 2022