The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service

The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to volunteer groups across the UK for outstanding work done in their local communities.

You can nominate any volunteer group if you know about the work they do. However, you can’t nominate a group that you are a part of

Any group of two or more people doing volunteering work that is a social, economic or environmental service to the local community can be nominated for the award. In order to be nominated, volunteer groups should do work that:
• provides a service and meets a need for people living in the local community
• is supported, recognised and respected by the local community and the people who benefit from it is run locally
Also, volunteer groups should have been running for three years or more.

For further information and to make a nomination, visit: www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/UKgovernment/Honoursawa....

Deadline: Thursday 30 September 2010