The London Sport Awards 2025 took place on Thursday, 27 March, celebrating the incredible people and organisations making a difference through sport and physical activity.
Supported by the City of London Corporation, we honoured inspiring winners across ten categories, from volunteers and community clubs to businesses and tech innovators, who are helping Londoners lead healthier, more active lives.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for an unforgettable evening.
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2025 Award Winners
Digital and Tech Innovation Award in association with Fit-tech
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.
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Community Impact Award in association with Saatchi & Saatchi
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.
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Arts Trust Productions – The Silent Disco Skate Jam Programme is a grassroots initiative transforming physical activity in Thamesmead (SE28), one of London’s most deprived areas. Combining roller skating with a silent disco, it creates a safe, inclusive space for well-being and community connection. Delivered by Arts Trust Productions and Vibes on Vibes, it engaged 1,785 participants in six Skate Jams and 159 in taster workshops between September 2023 and October 2024. The programme enhances fitness, reduces social isolation, and provides free equipment to ensure accessibility. It fosters leadership through mentoring and has contributed to a 25% drop in youth-related crime during programme weekends. With 90% of participants rating it “excellent,” it has strengthened community bonds and provided a sustainable model for inclusive physical activity.
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.
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Enhancing the Sporting Workforce Award in association with The Clink Events
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.
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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.
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Supporting Young Londoners Award in association with Opinium
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.
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Health and Wellbeing Award in association with NHS England London
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.
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Volunteer of the Year Award in association with Sport England
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.
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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
Award Winner:
Monica Burton (Brent) – Monica Burton, 88, from Harrow, has spent decades volunteering to improve older adults’ physical and mental health through yoga. After completing Yoga Teacher Training in 1982, she ran successful remedial classes, expanded yoga into Brent Council’s day centres, and worked with individuals with additional needs. Monica also helped organize public yoga events, collaborated to establish yoga as a recognized physical activity, and developed the ‘Yoga for the Third Age’ module in 2005, leading to Gentle Years Yoga, now considered for NHS adoption. Her work has transformed many lives, earning her a British Empire Medal in 2022, and she continues to teach today.
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.
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