Make a 2021 Awards nomination

Awarded projects, recognised projects and recognised individuals will have the opportunity to:

• Attend an awards ceremony in central London on 29^th November 2021.*
• Meet and connect with 300 individuals and groups from across London’s faith, belief and community sector, including Her Majesty’s Deputy Lieutenants of Greater London.
• Gain a free place on an F&BF training workshop
• Join F&BF’s Movement Builders Network and contribute to F&BF podcasts, blogs, and attend F&BF events for free.

*The Awards ceremony, set to take place in November, is subject to the current restrictions on social gatherings set out in the Government’s response to Covid-19. We will continue to assess the situation and follow the Government’s guidance.

Our awards scheme seeks to celebrate 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 London’s project, previously awarded projects cannot be re-nominated.

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 i.e. it does not have to have an interfaith focus.

To show a record of impact, we ask that you nominate a project that has been running for over a year.

Your nomination must identify a project:

• That works at a local level within greater London
• That is driven by a certain faith or non-religious belief. We welcome nominations from faith-based and secular projects.
• That has not previously received wider recognition. Previous award winners cannot be nominated again but we encourage recognised projects to re-nominate their work.

The judging panel base their decisions upon areas such as increasing a sense of belonging for overlooked or under-supported groups; increasing life chances through engagement, education, and wellbeing; and impact across communities or on beneficiaries e.g. the number of individuals/groups reached, track record of achieving aims, transformative and lasting impact on beneficiaries. The winners selected are those who can best demonstrate their strengths in these areas.

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.

Community resourcefulness in response to Covid-19

The global pandemic of Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the lives of Londoners. Projects within this category quickly adapted their services and/or through swift innovation created new projects with a focus on the common goal of assisting those affected by the pandemic.

Health & wellbeing

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.
Click here to read our blog featuring past winners from the health and wellbeing category.

Inspiring youth

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 and participation in their local community, and connect them with opportunities beyond their neighbourhoods.
Click here to read our blog featuring past winners from the inspiring youth category.

Interfaith relations 

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.
Click here to read our blog featuring past winners from the interfaith relations category.

Promoting Inclusion

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.
Click here to read our blog featuring past winners from the promoting inclusion category.

Supporting women

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. 
Click here to read our blog featuring past winners from the supporting women category.