{"id":10801,"date":"2021-11-06T07:31:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T07:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2021-11-06T07:32:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T07:32:02","slug":"the-grand-awards-ceremony-at-the-borough-council-of-rochdale-was-held-last-night-at-the-riverside-council-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=10801&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The grand awards ceremony at the Borough Council of Rochdale was held last night at the Riverside Council Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rochdale (Bureau Report)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloom Awards RHS &#8211; The Royal Horticultural Society North West hosted and presided over the Mayor of Rochdale Asim Rashid Awards Ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Borough Council of Rochdale won a staggering 16 Gold Awards and 8 additional trophies. Rochdale pulled it out of the bag once again at this year&#8217;s Northwest in Bloom Awards when the judges considered it a choice of a display of flowers and a bunch of spectacular parks.<br>After what could only be described as a difficult year, council and community volunteers were withdrawing eight impressive gold awards at Rochdale, said Bernard Pendleton, chairman of Northwest in Bloom, on Thursday, November 4. I presented at an awards ceremony.<br>In the Bloom Group, Rochdale won the Gold Award in the &#8216;Small Town&#8217; category and the &#8216;Best Town Center&#8217; in the Northwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a new entry this year, judges visited five Rochdale mosques for mosques at the Bloom Initiative. Five mosques &#8211; Blue Mosque, Central Mosque, Golden Mosque, Jalalia Mosque and Bilal Mosque &#8211; were visited in collaboration with the Rochdale Council of Mosques &#8211; with Bilal Mosque topping the list and receiving a gold award<br>For the first time, a special trophy was presented to Israr-ul-Haq by the Amani Initiative for outstanding contribution. The Bill Black Ledge MBE Chairman&#8217;s Award was presented to him in recognition of his work in the local community and mosques in Bloom.<br>Councilors Billy Shereen and Imran Aslam were also awarded &#8220;Outstanding Services in Bloom North-West&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/8491544a-d18d-4307-990e-17fd88f5d7e6-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/8491544a-d18d-4307-990e-17fd88f5d7e6-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/8491544a-d18d-4307-990e-17fd88f5d7e6-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/8491544a-d18d-4307-990e-17fd88f5d7e6-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/8491544a-d18d-4307-990e-17fd88f5d7e6-380x240.jpg 380w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/8491544a-d18d-4307-990e-17fd88f5d7e6-550x347.jpg 550w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/8491544a-d18d-4307-990e-17fd88f5d7e6-800x505.jpg 800w, https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/8491544a-d18d-4307-990e-17fd88f5d7e6.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Boom Pub at Rochdale and Nutter restaurants won the Gold Medal for the &#8216;Short Residence&#8217; award. The Hale Dale Heritage Center and Tea Rooms won the Gold Top Position for &#8216;Small Tourist Attractions&#8217; and Norden Jubilee Park once again won the Gold Award in the Best Pocket Park category.<br>Norden in Bloom, which entered the stand-alone village this year, captivated the incoming judges by claiming the &#8216;Best Newcomer award and the gold medal for &#8216;Big Village&#8217;, which means coming only for 2022. Can be big things.<br>Danny Horst Park also had awards for its charming display and high-quality care, which won a Silver Gilt Award in the &#8216;Big Park&#8217; category. Kirkholt also won a Silver Gilt at the Urban Community Awards, and the Stony Hill Community Wildlife Area won the Best Biodiversity Award.<br>Zen Internet won the Gold Award for &#8216;Best Small Industrial Park&#8217;, and local resident Luka Hagenson won the &#8216;Young Bloomer of the Year&#8217; award for his work on the Caledonian Wild Flower Meadow.<br>Apart from Mayor of Rochdale Councilor Asim Rasheed, Chair Town Councilor Shakeel Ahmed, Deputy Leader Councilor Adalat Ali, Councilor Samina Zaheer, Councilor Billy Shereen were also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochdale (Bureau Report) Bloom Awards RHS &#8211; The Royal Horticultural Society North West hosted and presided over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,76,71,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"category-important-news","9":"category-latest-news","10":"category-world","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10802,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}