16 Volunteer Groups in NI Receive the King’s Award for Voluntary Service!

Congratulations to 16 volunteer groups in Northern Ireland that have been awarded the King’s Award for Voluntary Service 2025!

The King’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest civil Award given to local volunteer groups across the UK to recognise outstanding work done in their own communities.  231 Awardees from across the UK have been recognised, reminding us of all the ways in which fantastic volunteers work to make life better for those around them.  We are very pleased that volunteers in Northern Ireland are getting recognition and we send our congratulations to:

• Ballymacash Sports Academy Ltd
• Care for Cancer
• Clarendon Development Association
• Community Relations Forum
• Culmore Community Partnership Ltd
• Downpatrick and County Down Railway Society Ltd
• Foyle Sailability
• Good Morning Ballymena
• Live Life Well-Being Centre & Social Enterprises
• Mallusk Community Action Group
• Mid Ulster Victims Empowerment (MUVE)
• Omagh Gardening Society
• Roe Valley Ancestral Researchers
• Sensory Kids
• St. Columb’s Cathedral Volunteers
• The Mid Ulster Talking Newspaper Association

Do you involve volunteers?  Are they making an exceptional impact on a local community?  You could be awarded a King’s Award for Voluntary Service.  Nominations for the 2026 awards are open and will close on 1 December 2025 – full details on how to nominate are available here.

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