We are looking forward to the London Sport Awards returning on the 27th March 2025 to celebrate the inspiring stories of those improving the lives of Londoners through sport and physical activity.
Supported by the City of London Corporation, the London Sport Awards 2025 will have ten categories to celebrate the incredible stories of volunteers, sports providers, community clubs, businesses and other organisations who are improving the lives of Londoners through sport.
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Nominations for the London Sport Awards 2025 are now closed.
Shortlisted Nominees
Digital and Tech Innovation Award
Summary
The Digital and Tech Innovation Award recognises creative new thinking and innovative ideas through the creation and/or use of digital or tech methods to support inactive Londoners to get and stay physically active.
The creation of new tech, the adaption of existing methods and the continued growth of digital platforms means there are now more ways than ever to support inactive people to start and continue good habits.
The Digital and Tech Innovation Award celebrates those groups and/or individuals who have taken a creative new approach and championed innovation in the physical activity and sport sector, using it to have a positive impact in London.
Shortlisted nominees:
Equip Sport
TeamSportz
Swing Fitness
Community Impact Award
Summary
The Community Impact Award shines a spotlight on grassroots physical activity and sport clubs or community organisations delivering great service and benefits to its users and/or the wider community.
Being active provides people with an incredible array of physical and mental health benefits and positive opportunities for individual, community and economic development.
The Community Impact Award captures and celebrates a wide cohort of grassroots physical activity and sport clubs and community organisations, whether that’s in a traditional sport setting or across London’s parks and streets.
The winner of the Community Impact Award will deliver a great service to its users, whether that’s online or offline, and will go the extra mile to make physical activity or sport a fun and enjoyable experience for all.
Shortlisted nominees:
Arts Trust Productions
KEEN London
Mottingham Big Local Refocused
Active Design Award
Summary
The Active Design Award recognises outstanding projects that promote physical activity, health, and well-being through innovative design solutions.
This category highlights designs in various sectors—urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and product design—that encourage movement and active lifestyles.
The Active Design Award celebrates organisations and projects that are working to ensure that communities have an environment that encourages physical movement and have access
to provision of safe, inclusive and accessible facilities and spaces, which is key to promoting positive wellbeing throughout that community.
Shortlisted nominees:
Enable
Access Sport
Natasha Hartke / Kennington Oval Reimagined
Uniting London Award in association with Sid Lee
Summary
The Uniting London Award, in association with Sid Lee, celebrates those who strive to break down barriers, make physical activity and sport accessible to all people and communities across our city and bring Londoners together.
This Award recognises physical activity and sport’s power to drive change and drive down inequalities. It recognises people, organisations, projects or initiatives that promote diversity, equality and inclusion throughout their work in physical activity and sport.
The Uniting London Award celebrates organisations and projects that utilise physical activity and sport to build cohesive communities by bringing people together to welcome, empower and embrace ethnic, cultural, physical and other differences.
Shortlisted nominees:
Ekota Academy Ltd
Wheels4Me London
The Black Prince Trust
Enhancing the Sporting Workforce Award
Summary
The Enhancing the Sporting Workforce Award recognises the individuals, organisations, groups or programmes that have supported their workforce to grow and develop.
Supporting people to lead physically active lives is a role that falls to many groups and individuals.
The sport and physical activity industry has an important role to play in enabling people that are currently inactive to find and access physical activity and sport to make positive changes to their lives.
This Award recognises whoever is enhancing the sporting workforce; whether it’s supporting, training or mentoring coaches, volunteers, administrators, officials or any other part of the sporting workforce.
Shortlisted nominees:
Youth Sport Trust / London Lead Inclusion Schools
London Basketball Association
Sport at the Heart
Sports Fun 4 All
Business Contribution Award in association with the City of London Corporation
Summary
The Business Contribution Award, in association with the City of London Corporation, recognises the valuable contribution of businesses of all sizes in providing sponsorship, support, and resources which enable community physical activity and sport to thrive in London.
Community physical activity and sport programmes, projects and organisations cannot operate in isolation and support for them from businesses has been more important than ever.
This Award recognises the contribution of commercial organisations, large and small, to community physical activity and sport through practical support, advice/mentorship, collaboration and investment.
This Award celebrates businesses with a bold and innovative approach to Responsible Business and can demonstrate they make a real tangible difference in local communities.
The Business Contribution Award also celebrates the individual business role models who inspire and motivate others to support community physical activity and sport initiatives.
Shortlisted nominees:
Alan Day Motor Group
Clarion Housing
Art Invest
Supporting Young Londoners Award
Summary
Children and young people are London’s future. Building positive attitudes to sport and physical activity in children from an early age can help them to feel more motivated, confident and able to get active throughout their life.
The Supporting Young Londoners Award celebrates the outstanding work of individuals (of any age), organisations and educational facilities (schools/colleges) who are providing young people (under the age of 25) with a better opportunity to enjoy doing sport and physical activity’.
Whether in school or within the community, this Award celebrates those initiatives that encourage movement, whether that be sport, dance, fitness or any other form of physical activity.
Shortlisted nominees:
Vision RCL
Theatre Peckham
Beyond the Bias
Health and Wellbeing Award
Summary
The role of physical activity and sport in promoting positive health and wellbeing is increasingly well understood, both in terms of physical health and wider outcomes e.g. social and mental health.
The Health and Wellbeing Award highlights significant achievements in using physical activity to promote physical and mental health and wellbeing, emphasising the vital role that being physically active plays in supporting health outcomes. Solutions should meet the needs of these less active Londoners and also look to reduce the inequalities that persist in people having the opportunities to live active lives.
This Award shines a light on those supporting Londoners with their physiological health, mental wellbeing, health management or any of the wider outcomes supported by physical activity and sport.
Shortlisted nominees:
Hackney Council – Fit 4 Health Exercise after Stroke Scheme
The Black Prince Trust
Chelsea FC Foundation – ‘Bridging the Blues’ project
Volunteer of the Year Award
Summary
Volunteers are the lifeblood of grassroots physical activity and sport. For so many, regular activity simply wouldn’t be possible without volunteers – the army of coaches, administrators, officials, fundraisers and supporters that mobilises every single week.
Volunteer of the Year celebrates the outstanding contribution of volunteers to grassroots physical activity and sport; individuals who share their knowledge, passion and skills and give their time generously.
The Volunteer of the Year Award celebrates those people that support grassroots physical activity and sport with their know-how, dedication and hands-on approach. The volunteers we’ll be celebrating gladly give up their time for the benefit of people in every borough in every corner of the capital.
Shortlisted nominees:
Maryam Chowdhury
Zain Rahman
Matthew Wing
Lifetime Achievement Award in association with BBC Radio London
Summary
The Lifetime Achievement award seeks to honour those who have given least 25 years of service in the physical activity, elite sport or community sport sector.
The recipient of the award is someone that has had a significant and positive impact on the people they have worked with over the course of their active involvement in the sector. Their commitment to, and passion for improving lives through the use of physical activity or sport is exemplary to all.
This award recognises someone who has worked or volunteered in the physical activity, elite sport or community sector and who has left a lasting legacy
Criteria
Nominees should demonstrate some or all of the following:
– Championing diversity and inclusion in a club or organisation.
– Making a positive and lasting change to the lives of those affected.
Simply bringing a smile to participants faces day in, day out.
– Evidence the nominee has volunteered or worked in the sector for at least 25 years. The work may be on-going.
