Northamptonshire Charity Awards: £2.97M in Grants and over 40 Heroes Honoured

Posted 22nd October 2024

Next month, Northamptonshire Community Foundation will celebrate more than 40 Northamptonshire-based charities, community organisations, volunteer-led groups and individuals at their Annual Awards event, taking place at the Royal Theatre.

Each year, the foundation hosts their Annual Awards to recognise the vital work carried out by the local organisations they fund. In 2024, the award categories include: Building Better Communities, Celebrating Culture and Heritage, Excellence in Education, Happy and Healthy Communities, Tackling Inequalities and the High Sherrif’s Initiative Fund.

Awards for individuals who have made real, positive changes in their communities will also be presented, these include: The Avon Inspirational Woman Award, The Lady Juliet Townsend Award for Volunteering and the recently launched David Laing CBE Young People Poetry Award.

Rachel McGrath, Chief Executive of Northamptonshire Community Foundation, said: “Our Annual Awards event is a keynote event in our calendar and an opportunity for us to recognise and celebrate the vital contributions that local volunteers and charities across the county make to our local communities.

“We are so looking forward to being joined by our generous donors, sponsors, partners and friends for a celebration of the life-changing work carried out by so many remarkable charities and community champions. It is always an incredibly humbling and uplifting experience. ”

Just as in 2023, Scott Bader are the headline sponsors of the foundation’s Annual Awards event this year: “We are pleased to be sponsoring the Northamptonshire Community Foundation Awards for a second year running and are looking forward to celebrating those who make a significant impact throughout Northamptonshire.”

The finalists for Northamptonshire Community Foundation’s Annual Awards event 2024 include:

Building Better Communities

  • Springs Family Centre
  • Pattishall Park Events
  • Northampton Youth Summit
  • South Northants Volunteer Bureau

 

Celebrating Culture and Heritage

  • Bardic Chair Northampton
  • African Youth Arise
  • Laugh Out Loud Theatre
  • Northants Youth Music

 

Excellence in Education

  • Read Easy Corby and Kettering
  • Spring Charity
  • Free 2 Talk CIC
  • The Core at Corby Cube

 

Happy and Healthy Communities

  • Dancemind
  • Dementia Sings Out
  • Home-Start Northampton
  • Service Six
  • The Curator Educator

 

Tackling Inequalities

  • Peak Empower
  • BAK UP CIC
  • Northamptonshire Carers
  • Northamptonshire Sport

 

Northamptonshire High Sheriff’s Initiative 

  • Core at Corby Cube 
  • Basketball Northants 
  • Home-Start Wellingborough 
  • Ramgarhia Board 

 Northamptonshire Community Foundation is the county’s leading independent grant-making charity. During the 2023/24 financial year, the foundation awarded £2.97 million in grants to charities, community organisations and volunteer-led groups across all four corners of the county. For more information, visit www.ncf.uk.com