JUST days remain to nominate Ulverston’s community heroes for a prestigious award to celebrate their efforts to make the town such a special place to be.
The Heart of Ulverston Awards 2025 offer a wide range of categories to recognise those who do the south Cumbria town proud.
Now, people connected to Ulverston are urged to get their nominations in before the deadline of midnight on Friday, March 15 – when all submissions will be assembled to allow the judging process to take place.
Jan Hancock, of Ulverston BID – a headline sponsor of this year’s awards and sponsor of the Outstanding Courage category – said: “This is an opportunity to recognise your friends, neighbours, local businesses or perhaps someone you have simply noticed making a difference on behalf of the community for some worthy recognition.
“Ulverston is renowned far and wide for its unique community spirit and strength, its fantastic business community and its commitment to the environment and sustainability.
“There’s no doubt that this is down to the people who live and work here – and we mustn’t let their efforts go unnoticed.”
The 13 awards categories are:
- Lifetime Achievement
- Sports Performance of the Year
- Employee of the Year
- Teacher of the Year
- Sports Volunteer of the Year
- Community Group of the Year
- Environment and Sustainability Award
- Outstanding Courage Award
- Best Hospitality Venue
- Business in the Community
- Citizen of the Year
- Helping Hand Award
- Apprentice of the Year
Making a nomination is easy and can be done via the Heart of Ulverston website: https://www.heartofulverston.co.uk/nominate
At the close of nominations, a panel of judges will meet to create a shortlist before selecting an eventual winner based on how closely each nomination matches the category criteria.
The finalists will then be invited to attend a glittering awards night and gala dinner in May, organised by Ulverston-based PR company 32West in conjunction with headline sponsors Ulverston BID, Siemens Energy and Bender UK.
Jan added: “If you know someone who deserves to be celebrated, make that nomination now. It’s an easy process and it will make such a difference to the heroes of our town.”
Heart of Ulverston Awards
