Our annual Youth Services Award is a Civic Honour that celebrates our amazing volunteers between 15-25 years old.

Before you start

Make sure you have the following information ready. This form doesn't have an autosave feature. 

• Contact details (name, email and phone number) for:

  • the person you're nominating

  • 2 or more people making the nomination

  • the organisation's executives if you are making a nomination on behalf of an organisation.

• Explanation of why your nominee deserves the award. You can either upload a file that you've prepared earlier (eg. word document or PDF) or type this out into the form.

• List of relevant jobs or roles your nominee has held.

• Letters of support from people who know about your nominee's service.

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Nominations close 5pm Tuesday 31 March 2026

For help on making a nomination check out the guidance notes.

This section is for your contact details. Once you have submitted the form we will send you a copy of your nomination. If needed, we will use these contact details to follow up on your nomination.

This section is about the person you're nominating (the nominee).

Please set out the precise reasons why you think the nominee deserves a Youth Services Award. 

We are looking for outstanding persons between the ages of 15 and 25 years inclusive in the year in which the voluntary community service is being recognised.  To be eligible, the recipient should have undertaken outstanding voluntary community service with an emphasis on the degree to which young people are actively engaged in their communities and may include their involvement in policy decision-making that affects them.  It is important that you give as much detail as possible about what your nominee has achieved, which makes them stand out against others.

As a guide, you may wish to consider some of the following questions:

• How has the nominee demonstrated service worthy of recognition?

• How has the nominee’s contribution impacted on a particular field, locality, group or community?

• Over what period of time has the nominee made a major contribution?

• Has the nominee’s contribution been recognised elsewhere (e.g. in the media, by other awards?)

Please provide full details of positions held by your nominee, which support, and are relevant, to your nomination.  Please give start and end dates (if known), or whether the person is still involved in this area of activity.

Nominations need to be made by two or more people.

Approved and signed off by an executive member (if you are making a nomination on behalf of an organisation it must be approved and signed off by an executive member).

Letters, which endorse the nominee’s contribution from people who are familiar with their service, may be included.  These should be attached to this form and their names noted below: