The McLaren Trophy is awarded annually by the Community Council to a person or group for outstanding services to the community. The award is named after the late John McLaren, a reporter on the Linlithgowshire Journal and Gazette and the first-ever secretary of the Community Council.

Award winners in previous years are as follows:

2023 ??

2022 Bo’ness Community Cleanup Group

2021 ??

2020 UNISON Kinneil Band

2019 Bo’ness and Area Community Bus Association SCIO

2018 CHILDREN’S THEATRE BO’NESS

2017 KINNEIL LADY BOWLERS

2016 BRAAS

2015 S.R.P.S. (The Scottish Railway Preservation Society)

2014 STOREHOUSE

2013 BO’NESS SEABOX SOCIETY

2012 WILLIAM McALLISTER

2011 WILLIAM BRUCE

2010 JEFF STEWART

2009 THE SALVATION ARMY

2008 S. GUTHRIE POLLOCK

2007 DOUGLAS SNEDDEN

2006 ANGUS SMITH

2005 G.B. McFARLANE

2004 WILLIE SIMPSON

2003 ALEX MACLACHLAN

2002 Mrs.CHRIS McNAUGHT

2001 ST. MARY’S CARE GROUP

2000 THE TUESDAY CLUB

1999 FRIENDS OF BO’NESS HOSPITAL

1998 MR & MRS J. BLACK

1997 BILL COCHRANE

1996 CHARLES SNEDDEN O.B.E. JP

1995 HELEN WHITLEY & BO’NESS W.R.V.S.

1994 DAVID BROWN

1993 WILLIAM RODGER M.B.E. JP

1992 Mrs NAN BUTTERWICK

1991 BO’NESS FIRE STATION