This award honours the group that exemplifies what can be achieved when people work together.
About the Community Group of the Year award
The winners will have approached the challenges they see around them with creativity and commitment or have seized the opportunity to do something differently in their local area.
What marks a group out as special might be how much it has been able to achieve or the breadth of its activities. However, context is important and exceptional achievement may equally mean getting something small but successful off the ground in an area with multiple challenges or finding an innovative community-led solution to a longstanding local issue.
2019 Sponsor
Avison Young are delighted to be sponsoring the Community Group of the Year award at the 2019 Groundwork Community Awards. All community groups deserve an award for the great work they do and we look forward to recognising the finalists who are making their neighbourhoods healthier and happier.
Chris Whetstone, Corporate Responsibility Manager, Avison Young
2019 Shortlisted Projects
Springboard Opportunity Group (Winner)
Springboard Opportunity Group is a community-based charity supporting children from birth to five-years with disabilities and additional needs, and their families.
Liverpool Six Community Association
Liverpool Six Community Association is a community centre that provides a range of services for the whole community under one roof, supporting both families and individuals who are in need.
Stevenage Against Domestic Abuse
Stevenage Against Domestic Abuse (SADA) provides advice, guidance and support to individuals and their families who have experienced domestic abuse, led by victims and survivors themselves.
2018 Shortlisted Projects
Love Barrow Families (Winner)
Love Barrow Families is a needs-led, grassroots organisation, co-designed by local families and supporting the most vulnerable and marginalised people in our community ranging from teenage mums and their babies to people at risk of homelessness, ex-offenders, substance misusers, people having experienced domestic abuse and the long term unemployed.
Thatto Heath Crusaders
Thatto Heath Crusaders is an amateur rugby league club situated in St Helens. Originally founded in 1981 the club has gone from strength to strength both on and off the field since being founded, having a large social and intergenerational impact within a local community characterised by low employment and poverty.
Liverpool Six Community Association
Liverpool Six Community Association is a community centre that provides a range of services for the whole community under one roof, supporting both families and individuals who are in need.
