Volunteering Awards 2024
Volunteering Awards 2024
Know a staff member or student who has been an exceptional volunteer this year? Then nominate them for one of our 12 categories. Keep reading to see all the categories and find out how to make a nomination:
- Best Cultural Effort – an award for a volunteering effort that has widened access and participation to arts and cultural activities.
- Best Educational Effort – an award for a volunteering effort that has increased educational opportunities and academic enrichment.
- Best Environmental Effort – an award for a volunteering effort that has made a positive impact and/or raised awareness for environmental and/or sustainability issues.
- Best Health and Wellbeing Effort – an award for a volunteering effort that supports and promotes wellbeing and healthy lives.
- Best New Volunteering Initiative – an award for a new volunteering initiative that has positively impacted the community.
- Best Social Inclusion Effort – an award for a volunteering effort that has enriched the lives of people who are from traditionally socially isolated groups. For example, the elderly, the homeless, people living with disabilities and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- College of the Year – an award for a College who have shown continued commitment and dedication to making a positive impact on the community through volunteering.
- Longstanding Volunteer – an award for a volunteer who has shown inspiring levels of commitment and dedication to volunteering.
- Outstanding Newcomer – an award for a new member of Durham University, who has shown inspiring levels of commitment and dedication to volunteering.
- Team of the Year – an award for a team (e.g. sports team, society, department, college team, DUSVO project) who have shown continued commitment and dedication to making a positive impact on the community through volunteering.
- Volunteer Leader of the Year – an award for a volunteer who has successfully led, developed and progressed a volunteering project or opportunity, to support the community.
- Volunteer of the Year – an award for a volunteer who has gone above and beyond in their volunteering role, by supporting the community, developing personally and inspiring others.