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Blackpool Civic Trust awards the best building work and civic activity annually.

See the main menu to read reports of Awards since 2008.

Blackpool Civic Trust Awards 2025

Tickets are on sale, again £20, for our

Afternoon Tea Awards ceremony in the Winter Gardens’ Spanish Hall on January 22^nd 2026 – our 51^st anniversary – at 1pm for a 1.30pm meal.

Yes! I know that sounds a long way away but do you want to pay £20 in the middle of buying Christmas presents? At the speed this year is going it will soon be Christmas!!!

An overview of the previous ceremonies

There were no awards for 2024.

Presentations in Autumn 2024 for Blackpool Civic Trust Awards for Achievement in 2023

The awards ceremonies were held separately with each group.

Best Community Group 2023 – Blackpool Freedom Runners

Best Refurbishment Award 2023 – Blackpool Victoria Hospital A & E Ward/Village

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Transforming Blackpool Award 2023 – Frasers/Flannels/Direct Sports

Transforming Blackpool Award 2023 – Highly Commended – Abingdon Street Market

Blackpool Civic Trust Awards and Afternoon Tea for Achievement in 2022 including the Blackpool Council Awards for Conservation 2019

Held at the Blackpool Winter Gardens, Baronial Hall on Friday 18th August 2023.

The awards ceremony was attended by over 90 guests, members, award-winners and the Mayor and Mayoress, the Chief Executive Officer and senior Council colleagues. It was followed by a splendid afternoon tea.

Joan Humble, Chair of Blackpool Civic Trust, read the citations and winners and the Mayor of Blackpool Councillor Gillian Campbell made the awards.

Thanks to the Winter Gardens Trust and assistance from Carl Carrington of Blackpool Council for hosting the event at the Winter Gardens and to Blackpool Council for their sponsorship this year.

We’d like to thank Claire Griffiths for taking photographs of the event.

We are pleased to be able to reintroduce our annual awards scheme after a two-year break due to the pandemic.

Blackpool Council Conservation Award 2019 and 2022

We didn’t hold a formal awards ceremony for 2019 as the pandemic hit us just as things were going to press. An informal ceremony was held at a monthly meeting in 2022. Two awards that were not handed out then were the winners of the Blackpool Council Conservation Award 2019.

The quality of building work in the town has improved dramatically in the last few years and we have a number of grant funded conservation based schemes to thank for that, which leads me nicely on to our awards.

The first of these two awards from 2019 goes to Joe Boniface of Joseph Boniface Architects Ltd

The second winner from 2019 is Bambers Remedial Contractors

The 2022 Blackpool Council Conservation award goes to Stoneguard Northern Ltd

The Blackpool Civic Trust Awards for 2022 are:

Blackpool Civic Trust Best New Build Award 2022 goes to Cassidy and Ashton Architects for Troutbeck Crescent Housing development

Blackpool Civic Trust Best Refurbishment 2022 of a building or space within a building. This year, the award goes to Layton Library for their creative refurbishment of their Children’s Library.

Blackpool Civic Trust Transforming Blackpool Award 2022. This award recognises developments that have the potential for changing not just how the town looks physically but also how others see it from the outside. This year the award goes to The Conference and Exhibition centre at Blackpool Winter Gardens.

Blackpool Civic Trust Community Award 2022 winners are The Friends of Marton Mere

Blackpool Civic Trust Best Open Space Award for Layton Cemetery

This special award goes to Blackpool Council’s Climate Change Team in recognition of three years of hard work in building awareness about the impacts of climate change and how Blackpool is planning to achieve Nett Zero by 2030.

The gathering at the Blackpool Winter Gardens, John Barnett MBE DL in the foreground, one of the Patrons of Blackpool Civic Trust.

Blackpool Civic Trust Awards for Achievement in 2019

Held at St Stephens on the Cliffs Church 21st March 2022

For information the event was to be The Annual Dinner and Awards, Friday 27th March 2020 at the Carousel Hotel, New South Promenade, Blackpool but it was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

A smaller awards presentation was made at the AGM at St Stephens on the Cliffs Church.

The awards were presented by John Barnett MBE, DL and Danielle Barnett MBE. Joan Humble was master of ceremonies. Below are details of the Awards and photographs of winners being presented with the their awards.

For a full set of photographs of the award presentations please see our 2019 Awards page, click here.

John and Danielle Barnett present the Community Award to The Windmill Trust at Stephens on the Cliffs Church on 21st March 2022:

2018 Blackpool Civic Trust Awards and Dinner Ceremony at the Imperial Hotel 12th April 2019:

2017 Blackpool Civic Trust Annual Awards and Dinner was held at Viva Blackpool on 27th April 2018

Please scroll down the page for the archive and best new building photos from previous years.

At the ceremony we acknowledge those who over the previous 12 months have worked to improve the civic environment of Blackpool. The awards cover Buildings and Environmental programmes and are selected by an independent and qualified panel.