Compassionate City Awards 2026 - Nominations

The Leeds Compassionate City Awards celebrate the individuals, community groups and organisations who make a positive difference every day—helping make our city a better place to live, work and visit.

Nominations are open until Friday 25th September, so now is the time to recognise someone making an impact. You can nominate a person, group or organisation across nine award categories.

The 2026 Awards Ceremony will take place on Wednesday 25th November.

Eligibility requirements

The criteria for the Compassionate City Awards are as follows:

• Projects or activities should have taken place within the last 12 months.
• Nominees must have made a positive impact on people living within the Leeds boundary.
• To ensure fairness and recognise new contributions, previous winners from the last two years are not eligible.
• Nominations should be submitted by others; we kindly ask that individuals and organisations do not nominate themselves.

Please note that nominations are assessed on the quality and clarity of the information provided, rather than the number 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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