Faringdon ECOWEEK win Regional Heat
in South East Market Towns Awards 2009
Members of Faringdon Area Project’s ECOWEEK Team were celebrating yesterday after
winning through to the National Finals of the Action For Market Towns Awards 2009.
Many diverse and inspiring projects from across the South East of England were entered for this year’s
awards and the four category winners were presented with their regional award by Richard Dick, the
High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Julian Owen of South East Rural Towns Partnership at Sudbury
House Hotel in Faringdon.
For the presentation, Faringdon ECOWEEK, who won the Social and Community award, were joined
by Wireless Godalming, winners of the Business & Economy award; Butterfly Garden, Hythe &
Dibden who won the Environment and Culture award and the Caterham meets Storrington who won
the Partnership & Stategic Working award.
Faringdon ECOWEEK comprised of a raft of low carbon events for all ages and interests and covering
waste, food energy, environment and even set a new world record for wind turbine hugging on MidSummers Day!
Being named as the Overall South east winner came as a huge surprise for the ECOWEEK team who
organised the event in June 2008. The team was led by Sjoerd Vogt, who thanked everyone who was
involved in the events. He said that they are hoping to make this a bi-annual event and the planning is
already beginning for ECOWEEK 2010.
More information about ECOWEEK is available at www.ecoweek.info/press
Contact: Jane Haynes, Focus on Faringdon CIC Tel: 0845 658 0510
E-mail: jane.haynes@bordengate.com