Community Stars!

Prospect tenant Morven Kolhaktar was the winner of our 2025 Sheila Bunt Award for being a true Community Star! We wanted to recognise some of the many people who live in this community and put time and effort into making Wester Hailes a better place. We asked our tenants and staff to nominate good neighbours, random acts of kindness, volunteers or helping hands. We shortlisted six other stars alongside Morven: Mo Connolly, Tom Jamieson, Mike Grant, Emina Bosnjakovic, Eunice Main and Shirley Angus. We announced the winner on Scottish Housing Day which had a theme of Everyone Needs Good Neighbours. Sheila Bunt was a founding Committee member of Prospect and without her and others, Prospect would not exist. Sheila passed away 3 years algo and this award is in her memory.

Morven was nominated by one of her neighbours who said:

"Morven is a pillar of the community, she helps me out so much and others that I know she helps too. She is always out helping out with the kids playing in the community, doing art with them. She brightens everyone’s day, she works so hard, she’s a legend."