The Spirit of Manchester Awards is a series of awards celebrating and highlighting all the excellent work being carried out in Manchester’s voluntary and community sector.

We are very pleased to announce the shortlist for this year’s Spirit of Manchester Awards 2024, which was decided by our judging panel. We would like to thank our judges for volunteering their time to read through the many amazing nominations we received and to make the difficult decisions of selecting just three nominations for each award category for our shortlist.

Volunteer of the Year

• Holly Taberner
• Sammy Minshull
• Maria Romanenko

Volunteering Team

• Caritas Salford
• Manchester Central Foodbank
• SHINE

Volunteer Involving Organisation

• MASH
• Home-Start Manchester
• LGBT Foundation

Young Volunteer of the Year (in acknowledgement of Volunteers' Week in June 2024) (Supported by Clyde & Co) 

Winner: Amelia McCallum

Tackling Inequalities (Supported by Manchester City Council – Making Manchester Fairer)

• Europia
• Nurturing Foundations
• Across Ummah CIC

Inspiring Campaign

• Lifeshare
• SNUG
• Future Directions Green Superheroes

Creative Community Spirit

• Segment Arts
• Rain Dance Colour Festival
• Edge Theatre

Partnership and Collaboration

• Street Engagement Hub Manchester
• GLL / Better
• Smart Works & AJ Bell

Trustee/Committee Member of the Year (in acknowledgement of Trustees Week in November 2024)

• Jane Carroll
• Colette Cronshow
• Kotieba Ramadan

Service User Involving Organisation

• Future Directions CIC
• Coffee4Craig
• Gaddum Engagement Team

Social Economy Champion

• Beth Powell
• The Old Abbey Tap House
• She Leads for Legacy

Community Cohesion

• North Manchester Community Partnership
• Tree of Life Centre
• Happy Somedays

Community and Business Collaboration (Supported by CityCo)

• Peninsula Group
• Cracking Good Food & Microsoft NW Social Impact team
• Greater Manchester Law Centre & Clyde & Co

The Dr Sylvia Sham Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Voluntary Sector

The overall winner of this award has been picked by our panel of judges and will be announced at our Awards Ceremony.

The winners will be decided at our Awards Ceremony on 3 October.

We will soon be selling tickets to attend our Awards Ceremony, watch out for the announcement in a future email bulletin.

Tickets to attend the Awards Ceremony are £25 per person or £200 for a table for 10 people.

If you would like to express an interest in attending and to be notified when tickets are available please email: [email protected]

To get in touch

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