Salfordʼs chance to say THANK YOU

The Spirit of Salford Community Awards will be back in March 2021.

It’s your chance to say thanks to all those who have given exceptional support during an exceptional year.

The awards celebrate people and groups who have made a significant difference to Salford and shown the true Spirit of Salford. The 2021 awards will focus on how everyone pulled together to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and the unique challenges it threw up.

In March, as the country went into lockdown and vulnerable people were advised to shield, the public, private, voluntary and community sectors came together as never before to rise to the unprecedented challenge.

The Spirit of Salford helpline was launched within 48 hours and an army of volunteers, private sector organisations and community groups came forward to respond to the city’s needs. NHS staff, care workers and key front-line workers kept people safe and maintained essential services while hundreds of people worked tirelessly to get food and medicine out to vulnerable people or stepped up to offer support.

From showing people how to use digital technology to stay in touch, to a weekly, friendly chat to keep people’s spirits up, to delivering much needed essential items to walking people’s dogs when they couldn’t get out, Salford came together to show what makes our city so special.

Now it’s your chance to recognise and thank them. Nominations can be made at:

www.spiritofsalfordawards.info

The deadline for nominations is 20 November 2020 by 5pm.

To see the categories and nominate an individual or a group for an award visit our website where you can also see photos from the 2018 event.

Here are this year’s award categories:

•Citizen of the Year: A truly inspirational Salford hero who has made an outstanding contribution to making the city a better place to live, work or visit.

• Community Group of the Year: The group that has made the most outstanding contribution to making Salford a better place to live, work or visit this year.

• Public Servant of the Year: An exceptional front line worker who puts the people of Salford first.

• Spirit of Salford Special Recognition Award: Individuals or groups who have done so much to help Salford through the unprecedented challenges created by the Coronavirus crisis.

• Young Person of the Year: An exceptional young person who has achieved great things either academically or personally in the last year.

• Volunteer of the Year: Celebrate a Salford resident whose volunteering has had a tremendous impact in the city.

• Good Neighbour of the Year: A person who goes out of their way to help and support their neighbours.

• Best Health Achievement:A determined individual or group doing great things to improve health in Salford.

• Best Environmental Improvement: An individual or group making a lasting contribution to Salford’s environment.

• Best Community Safety Project: An individual or community group working tirelessly to make Salford safer.

Visit our website: www.spiritofsalfordawards.info