About the Awards
The Locality Awards celebrate the most dedicated and inspiring people and organisations in the Locality network.
They step in when others look away, filling a need that’s not being met and creating spaces at the heart of our communities where lives are transformed.
What winners receive
Each Locality Award winner will receive:
- A trophy for recognition of their outstanding work
- £1,000 cash prize to invest in their community or organisation (apart from the Keep it Local Award)
All finalists and their achievements will also be celebrated and promoted throughout the Locality network.
Awards '25 shortlist announced
Find out who has been shortlisted for the Locality Awards '25. The winner will be announced at Locality Convention '25 in Liverpool on 12 November 2025. Congratulations to our finalists!
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Power of Community
This award celebrates a community organisation working with local people to shape their own future and to build a fairer society where everyone in the community thrives.
Shortlisted nominations:
High Trees Community Development Trust
Rotunda
Tree Shepherd
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Transforming Lives
This award celebrates a community organisation whose support has had a significant impact on changing local people’s lives.
Shortlisted nominations:
Be The Change Youth Project
C-Change West London
St Paul's Community Development Trust
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Building Inclusive Communities
Supported by Howden. This award celebrates a community organisation that supports diverse groups of people and creates inclusive spaces.
Shortlisted nominations:
The Ethnic Minority Council
Halifax Opportunities Trust
Liberdade Community Development Trust
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Enterprising Organisation
This award celebrates a community organisation that has developed a creative business model that makes them successful and financially resilient.
Shortlisted nominations:
Acton Arts Project
Community Ventures
Impact Hub Yorkshire
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Keep it Local
Supported by Lloyds Bank Foundation, Keep it Local is Locality’s campaign calling for public bodies to move away from bureaucratic commissioning and big outsourcing contracts.
This award celebrates an outstanding local authority, Integrated Care Board or other local health body that has instead created strong local partnerships with local community organisations and worked in an innovative way to unlock the power of its community.
Shortlisted nominations:
Shropshire Council
South Tyneside Council
Wiltshire Council
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Community Heritage Award
New for 2025 and supported by Historic England, this award celebrates community organisations that have used a heritage building or space to improve the lives of their community.
Shortlisted nominations:
Byrne Avenue Baths
Acumen Community Buildings
Bramley Baths and Community Trust
The Winch
Eligibility and applying
To be eligible for all Locality Awards (except for the Keep it Local Award), organisations must be Locality Members with an Essentials or Membership Plus package. To be eligible for the Keep it Local Award, organisations must be a local authority, Integrated Care Board or a local health body that has created strong local partnerships with local community organisations.
If your organisation currently has the Network membership package, you are not eligible to be nominated for a Locality Award. Upgrading is easy - just contact members@locality.org.uk and we'll do everything for you.
Locality Awards '25 categories
Power of Community
Celebrating community organisations working with local people to shape their own future and to build a fairer society where everyone in the community thrives.
Transforming Lives
Celebrating community organisations whose support has had a significant impact on changing local people’s lives.
Building Inclusive Communities
Supported by Howden, this award celebrates community organisations that connect diverse groups of people and create inclusive spaces.
Enterprising Organisation
Celebrating community organisations that have developed a creative business model that makes them successful and financially resilient.
Community Heritage *new for 2025*
Supported by Historic England, this award celebrates community organisations that have used a locally listed or nationally designated heritage asset, or buildings or places within a conservation area, to improve the lives of their community. ‘Listed’ here means for their heritage value and not as Assets of Community Value.
To be nominated, the work of the community organisation does not need to be heritage-focused, but the heritage asset or conservation area needs to support them to meet their aims. For example, a community-based social care provider, based in a locally listed building, where the history of the building has provided the basis for some of the activities offered, or a group that supports community cohesion by running events in a registered park or garden.
Keep it Local
Supported by Lloyds Bank Foundation, Keep it Local is Locality’s campaign calling for public bodies to move away from bureaucratic commissioning and big outsourcing contracts.
This award celebrates outstanding local authorities, Integrated Care Boards and other local health bodies that have created strong local partnerships with local community organisations and worked in an innovative way to unlock the power of their community.
