Platinum Jubilee Community & Business Awards

If you know of a group, school or business in your community that have made a positive contribution to fostering community spirit and improving the lives of others, nominate them for an award.

The Platinum Jubilee Awards will be given to Community groups, Schools or Businesses who have shown that they have done something exceptional and positive to develop a community spirit and has enriched the lives of its members, pupils or employees and the wider community.

70 Platinum Jubilee Awards will be awarded during 2022, one for each of the seventy years of Her Majesty's reign.

Nominations can be made by the group themselves or by someone in the community who thinks a particular group deserves this recognition. What constitutes a 'community group is flexible, but examples might include:

• A bowls club whose members have regenerated a local park
• A business that has helped and supported its local community during the pandemic
• A school that cares for its environment
• A sports or social club that keeps going against the odds for the benefit of the community
• A group which promotes inter-cultural and/or interfaith dialogue by bringing communities together
• An arts or heritage society which brings art, culture, and history alive and accessible to the whole community
• A youth organisation encouraging young people to fulfil their potential and to be positive contributors to society
• A community organisation working for the benefit of the local community

Any examples where people are working as a team, and volunteering their time and energies, to enhance their community, are suitable for nomination

The 70 Platinum Jubilee Award winners will be announced on Friday 27th May 2022 and those groups will be visited by a Deputy Lieutenant, who will present the award on behalf of the Lord-Lieutenant.

Nomination forms will be available to download (in Word format) from www.leics.gov.uk/jubilee or from this article below.

Please return the nomination form as an email attachment to: lieutenancyoffice@leics.gov.uk

The closing date for nominations is Friday 29th April 2022.

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