Hackney LBC

This award is open to a single council or where appropriate a partnership of councils, or a council-owned company. Private sector partners can enter on a council’s behalf, with the permission of the council itself. Many councils are seeking to establish a new relationship with local people and local communities. Community involvement and engagement is increasingly important as a way of shaping council thinking, contributing to service design and improvement and to responding to continuing resource pressures. It may also involve direct community involvement in service delivery. This award is intended to showcase the whole range of community involvement.

Hackney LBC's Windrush cultural legacy programme transformed the council’s engagement and relationship with migrant communities by amplifying their voices in local placemaking. This work has built trust with a previously marginalised community and has put the council at the heart of the community in an authentic way. After four years, the programme has culminated in a community led public art commission that won the internationally prestigious Turner Prize 2022. Veronica Ryan’s prizewinning sculptures, and Thomas J Price’s powerful bronze figures have put Windrush communities permanently at the heart of Hackney’s physical and emotional landscape.