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Join one of our two webinars with live Q&A. The team will walk you through the nomination process and answer any questions you have.
We believe that the power of faith and belief based social action needs to be supported, recognised and celebrated, and we need your help in identifying this inspirational work by making nominations for this year’s awards. Thank you for considering making a nomination for the London Dangoor Awards. Below is all the information you should need to make a nomination. More information about past award winners can be found here.
The London Dangoor Awards celebrate the contribution of those working at the grassroots to ensure London is a more inclusive city. This work often includes supporting the most marginalised in our society. Our categories, chosen in partnership with Deputy Lieutenants of Greater London, reflect the challenges faced by some Londoners and marginalised groups.
On the nomination form, you will be asked to choose a category. Don’t worry if your project fits across multiple categories; the judges will alter your category if necessary to make a fair decision. We will be in contact if we need any more information.
Projects within this category support Londoners facing financial hardship. They provide goods, services, or assistance that help ease the pressures of poverty and improve people’s ability to meet essential needs.
Developing young people’s leadership and character at school is vital for a healthy society. Projects in this category promote interfaith understanding and inclusive practices. These projects run at schools, colleges or Alternative Provision Units and work with young people (5–18) to develop leadership, tolerance or education regarding faith, belief, or inclusion.
London’s neighbourhoods are multi-faith spaces where people with different faiths and beliefs share the same public spaces and services. Projects within this category build bridges across communities and create hubs that are open to all.
Inspired by The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative’s mission to encourage environmental sustainability. This category seeks to celebrate projects that address one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity by inspiring behavioural change in their communities through education, local campaigns, safeguarding green spaces and taking practical action to tackle climate change.
Projects in this category create specialised services for the health and wellbeing of Londoners. They reduce social isolation and improve the quality of life of Londoners by supporting vulnerable people from different backgrounds.
Young people from minority backgrounds are often overlooked and may be excluded from civic life. Projects within this category work with young people to encourage leadership, participation or volunteering in their local community, and connect them with opportunities beyond their neighbourhoods.
Through this award we are particularly looking to celebrate work that is led by young people or young leaders under 30 who deserve recognition.
Londoners may face misunderstanding, isolation or exclusion because of their faith or belief. They may be further excluded due to other aspects of their identities (e.g. ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, age and ability) — and this discrimination may take place within faith groups or wider society. Projects within this category work at the intersection between faith/belief and other aspects of identity, creating inclusive spaces.
Women, from all walks of life, make extraordinary contributions to their communities and the city we live in, but they’re not always recognised. This category will recognise the work of projects which support women to make change in their community through providing education, advocacy, friendship and a wider array of services.
Our awards scheme celebrates work that is often overlooked and marginalised. You may nominate your own work or that of others.
So that we can recognise the widest breadth of projects, previously awarded projects cannot be re-nominated. Projects which have been recognised only and did not win an award can be nominated again.
Projects can be run by a registered charity or a community group, and could be one initiative of a larger organisation or a project that is run by a place of worship or community group. It may be run entirely by volunteers or have paid staff. The project nominated could work across communities or within their own community. It does not have to have an interfaith focus.
Your nomination must identify a project:
The judging panel will base their decisions on the need for the project, the impact the project has in addressing that need, and exceptionality — which could be about innovation, uniqueness, sustainability or overcoming barriers to establish your project. Further guidance is provided on the nomination form and on our top tips page (see below).
Projects could increase a sense of belonging for overlooked or under-supported groups; increase life chances through engagement, education, and wellbeing; and impact communities or individual beneficiaries. Winners will have a track record of achieving aims, with transformative and lasting impact on beneficiaries. The winners selected are those who can best demonstrate their strengths in these areas.
In the nomination form you will be asked to give the contact details of the group you are nominating (mandatory) and links to social media accounts if you have them (optional). You’ll be asked for information of the person making the nomination (this can be anyone, including a paid employee).
You will then be asked to answer 7 longer questions. Each question has a limit of 1,200 characters (roughly 200 words). On the nomination form there is some guidance to help you think how to best answer these questions.
You will then be asked to list a referee who can verify the work of your nomination, along with their contact details (mandatory). The referee cannot be a paid employee of the project being nominated — they can be a volunteer, trustee, beneficiary, or anyone else familiar with the work, as long as it’s unpaid.
Central to making a good nomination is clearly describing what the project does and who it impacts, and giving clear examples and evidence of the impact the project makes. Think about any statistics, case studies or quotes you may be able to share.
We encourage nominations from projects large or small — don’t feel that you are too small to apply. No matter what the project is, we’d love to get to know you and get a chance to say hello at the awards ceremony in September. All nominees will be invited to either be awarded with £500 or to be recognised and receive a certificate. So apply today!
Please see the next section for information about how you can make the best possible nomination.
Click here to read our top tips for how to make your best possible London Dangoor Awards nomination.
On this page you’ll find general guidance, some more information about the specific questions, and our recommendations for how to write if you are a larger or a smaller project.
Click here to see an example form from one of the 2025 London Dangoor Awards’ winning projects. You may wish to use this to help with your application and to better understand the questions.
Two webinars with live Q&A, run by the team so you can get help and chat to us about your nomination.
Watch: Recording of Webinar 1 (hosted on 16 April):
"We are delighted to win this award, and to be part of such an amazing group of people and initiatives. We have seen the enormous benefit of working and coming together during Covid-19 and we see these awards as an opportunity to celebrate everyone’s commitment to supporting their community at this time.” "