The Shoreditch Trust has been awarded the Social Enterprise of the Year Award at the Inaugural Regeneration and Renewal Awards 2007 Ceremony yesterday for the Eco-Forthright and much applauded Acorn House Restaurant.

The Award was accepted by the Chairperson Malcolm Grant and Chief Executive Micheal Pyner before an audience of close to 600 regeneration partners, practitioners and public providers.

This Regeneration and Renewal Awards Ceremony has been initiated to recognise outstanding work in the economic, community and physical regeneration across the UK.

This has been bought about by market leaders Regeneration and Renewal Magazine (Haymarket Business Media) bringing together expert judges from across the UK to evaluate entries in terms of key factors such as originality, impact, financial viability, and benefit to local people.

One of the judges, Sam Tariff stated that Acorn House was “a fantastic example of a social enterprise which through culinary excellence demonstrates the principles of sustainability by promoting economic, social & environmental development”.

This UK wide recognition will inspire the current work of Shoreditch Trust in creating a second business model of the Acorn Restaurant ecologically aware and alert theme at a future mixed use scheme in Shoreditch.

Micheal Pyner who has served as Shoreditch Trust’s CE since the beginning of the New Deal for Communities program has been awarded the Award For Leadership in Regeneration.

The Right Honourable John Prescott MP was given an Award For Lifetime Achievement for his leadership, passion, tenacity and political influence in Regeneration.

The Acorn House Restaurant – http://www.acornhouserestaurant.com