Awards

Loo of the Year award

The Changing Places consortium has teamed up with the British Toilet Association to award a ‘Loo of the Year’ award for Changing Places toilets.

Eight venues from across the UK were the first winners to be presented with a special ‘Changing Places’ Award at the 2006 Loo of the Year awards ceremony. Each of these venues have installed fully accessible Changing Places toilets with a height-adjustable changing bench, hoist and plenty of space for disabled people who need assistance to use the toilet.

The winning venues were:

• Pamis, Dundee
• Lifestyle, Glasgow
• Murray Owen Centre, East Kilbride
• Fisherrow Harbour, Musselburgh
• Greyhound Street, Nottingham
• Andy Loos, Worcestershire
• The Sage, Gateshead
• thecentre:mk

Andy Loos, who are the first organisation to provide a mobile Changing Places toilet, were further honoured by being named as the major trophy winner in the accessible toilets category.

> Read more information about the Loo of the Year Awards 2006

> Find out how to enter the Loo of the Year Awards 2007

Community Care Award

Nottingham City Council, one of the first local authorities to install a Changing Places toilet in a public place, have won a 2006 Community Care award for their Changing Places toilet. The Community Care awards aim to highlight and reward good practice and innovative ways of working, and are awarded to projects or teams that are really making a positive difference to the lives of service users.

Nottingham City Council was declared winner of the carers category, for installing a Changing Places toilet in the city to successfully tackle the lack of suitable toilets in public places for thousands of disabled people.

The team from Nottingham were thrilled to receive the award, which was judged by a panel including leaders from social care, charities and academia.

Day Services Modernisation Manager Martin Jackaman who led the Nottingham team said, “We are delighted to receive such a prestigious award. It is an honour for the City Council to have our project recognised by some of the leading professionals in social care in the country. We hope this will raise the profile of the Changing Places campaign and encourage other councils and the community as a whole to join Nottingham City Council in installing Changing Places toilets – something which really does make a difference and opens up a world of possibility for so many people.”

> Find out more about the Changing Places toilet in Nottingham

> Find out more about the Community Care Awards