Robert Excell Heritage Award

MKHA awards a heritage prize as a tribute to our late Chair, Robert Excell, for his tireless work to further heritage interests in the Milton Keynes area.

The Heritage Award is a £500 prize given annually and this year will be presented at our summer MKHA Members Meeting. The award is to be used to undertake further heritage work.

Bill Griffiths presents last year’s Award to Dianne Sutton

Criteria

This is an opportunity to highlight the best work by a heritage organisation, society, or individual completed in 2025.

This could be a permanent or temporary exhibition, display, event, publication, website development, conservation or restoration work, community project, but demonstrating wider community engagement, and promoting local heritage.

Eligible for submitting an entry are current members of MKHA, or a local non-member group or individual at the discretion of the Judging Panel. The participants may be voluntary, paid staff or a combination of both linked with other groups and communities. Applications for the awards will be accepted up to the end of February 2026.

In addition, all projects that have received MKHA grant aid and have been completed by the end of December 2025, automatically qualify for consideration for the awards. Recipients will be notified of any further information is required beyond their final reports.

Last year’s Award

The Award was presented on June 19th 2025 at Bradwell Common Community Centre. Dianne Sutton received the top award on behalf of Tim Skelton and herself for their book on Homeworld ’81 Commendation was given to  North Crawley Historical Society and New Bradwell Heritage.

Application process

Submissions can be made through a simple application form. Forms should be submitted by Saturday,, 28th February 2026.

In the absence of nominations a project can be selected by MKHA Executive Committee. Any completed MKCC/MKHA grant awarded project will automatically be considered alongside submitted applications.

Individual members of MKHA Executive Committee are ineligible for the award, and are not allowed to vote on submissions from any group with which they are directly associated. The Judging Panel will be the MKHA Executive Committee.