Through our Community Volunteer Awards, we aim to reward individuals and organisations for the great work you do in and around Blackburn with Darwen.
Community Volunteer Awards 2024
Well over a thousand nominations were received for 2024’s iteration of the Community Volunteer Awards, meaning that difficult choices had to be made. The Awards, as ever, features some fantastic winners and finalists: –
Award | Winner | Finalists |
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Health & Wellbeing – Individual sponsored by BwD Carers Service |
Sahil Usman | Shaheen Elahi Barbara Leyland |
Health & Wellbeing Award – Group sponsored by Chubb |
Blackburn Foodbank | Community First Responders Shad Chefs Woman Hub |
Prosperity, Learning & Employment Award – Invidivual sponsored by UCO |
Sandy Woods | Bev Ormerod Fizza Zafal |
Prosperity, Learning & Employment Award – Group sponsored by Rhodar |
Offload Northwest | Neurodynamix Phoenix Hub |
Grassroots Community Action Award – Individual sponsored by Blackburn Rovers |
Samantha Nye | Vicky Kelly Pamela Ward |
Grassroots Community Action Award – Group sponsored by East Lancs Hospice |
Roots Community | BwD Carers Respite Group Friends of Infirmary |
Young People’s Award – Individual sponsored by Chip in |
Emma Evans | Lucie Brown Fizza Zafar |
Young People’s Award – Group sponsored by Blackburn College |
Blackburn Youth Darts Academy | Children’s Storehouse St. George’s Mill Hill Scout Group – Canalside Activity Centre |
Renee Black Award sponsored by BwD Interfaith Forum |
Neurodynamix | Aid4Ummah Offload Northwest |
Environment Award – Individual sponsored by Suez |
Wayne Dixon | Angela Gatehouse Betty Mossop |
Environment Award – Group sponsored by Newground Together/Blackburn BID |
Little Potting Club | Cherry Tree Library Apiary Keep Blackburn Tidy |
Culture, Leisure & Sporting Life Award – Individual sponsored by PM&M |
Keith Brunt | Sliding Doors Young People’s Committee Chris Walton |
Culture, Leisure & Sporting Life Award – Group sponsored by Active Lancashire |
Mill Hill Events Committee | Arts2Heal SAS Rights |
Lindsay Dunn Award – Individual sponsored by Age UK BwD |
Muaaz Nadat | Bev Ormerod Sahil Usman |
Lindsay Dunn Award – Group sponsored by Spark |
Phoenix Hub | Offload Northwest Voice |
CVS Special Award | Chris Seddon | |
Community Involvement Award sponsored by WEPA |
Darwen Community Helpers | Children’s Storehouse Phoenix Hub |
Good Neighbour Award sponsored by BwD BC |
Vicky Kelly | Charlotte Leaver Bev Ormerod |
Volunteer of the Year Award sponsored by East Lancs Deaf Village |
Richard Croasdale | Keith Brunt Pat Foster |
Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by BwD BC |
Judith Houghton | Ian Hamer Vera Green |
Community Volunteer Awards 2023
We had a fantastic response to our call for nominations last year, with over 700 nominations. We are deeply grateful to everyone who took the time to nominate their community heroes, the delegates who attended on Thursday 7th September to decide the list of winners and finalists – and, most of all, to everyone who was nominated for their brilliant work, enhancing and enriching all of our communities.
Community Volunteer Awards 2022
2022’s award ceremony took place on Thursday 3rd November at King George’s Hall.