Compassionate City Awards 2025 - Nominations

The Leeds Compassionate City Awards celebrate the positive work that individuals, community groups and organisations do every day to make their local communities and our city a great place to live, work, and visit.

You have until Monday 8th September to nominate a person, group or organisation for one of nine different categories. The 2025 Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday 6th November 2025. If you experience problems completing this form, please email CompassionateCityAwards@leeds.gov.uk.

Eligibility requirements
The criteria for the Compassionate City Awards are:

• Projects or activities must have taken place in the last 12 months.
• Nominees MUST HAVE had a positive impact on people living within the Leeds boundary.
• Nominees will NOT be eligible for an award if they have won in the last 2 years.
• Self-nominations will NOT be accepted. 

Please note that nominations will be judged on the content and quality of the information provided rather than the quantity of nominations received for an individual or organisation.

Privacy notice (data protection)

Your response will be used by Leeds City Council (as data controller) to manage and promote the compassionate city awards. By submitting your response, you are giving your consent for us to use the information you provide.
 
If you are nominating a person (rather than an organisation) then you must ask this person for permission to share their contact details with Leeds City Council before submitting your nomination.
 
We will use the contact details you provide to communicate with you about your nomination and also send you news about the awards.
 
As part of the awards, we may publish (in full or an edited version) the reasons you give for making your nomination including your name.
 
We will keep your information safe and secure in line with UK data protection law. Your data will be processed by the relevant teams within Leeds City Council. Our software supplier, SmartSurvey Ltd, will also process your data on our behalf but will never use these for its own purposes. We will not share your contact details with anyone else. We will store your response in line with the time periods set out in our retention schedule.

Further information about how we process your data can be found on the Council’s privacy notice. This includes details of your rights and how you can exercise them, and contact details for the Council’s data protection officer.
 
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