Church & Community Volunteers Awards
Whether you’re offering a warm welcome, maintaining historic spaces, or turning your building into a hub of local activity, we want to hear about the difference you’re making.
National Church Awards
Nominate your place of worship for the National Church Awards
This year, the National Church Awards will be celebrating the dedication, care and impact of the people who care for the UK’s wonderful church buildings and who share them with others.
Whether that is keeping a church, chapel or meeting house well maintained, opening it up for visitors or running a community project from the building, we want to hear about the amazing ways the teams at your church are making a difference. We want to partner with you to help celebrate their brilliant efforts in keeping churches open and serving local people.
We have the chance to celebrate these awards at a very special event in an incredible location this Autumn. To help us make the most of this opportunity and draw attention to the vital contribution that volunteers make to keeping churches open, we have combined our core categories for this year.
We’d love as many people as possible to submit nominations for the National Church Awards.
Open now for nominations
Click on the boxes to find out more and to enter.
Church Architecture Awards
There are three awards up for grabs in the Church Architecture Awards 2025, all of which are run in partnership with the Ecclesiastical Architects & Surveyors Association (EASA).
Friends Award
This award is chosen by the Friends – supporters – of the National Churches Trust. The winning church receives a £10,000 additional grant to help complete an urgent repair or facilities project.
Our partners
We work closely with partners, funders and sponsors across the sector. They bring their specialist skills and experience to planning and promoting the awards and the expert judging panels often agonise over very tightly fought shortlists.
Marsh Charitable Trust
The Marsh Church and Community Hero Awards celebrate volunteers who have had great ideas about using their church building, have contributed significantly to its sustainability, or who help their community using their building.
Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association
The church architecture awards are run by the National Churches Trust and the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association. They honour excellence and creativity in church architecture.
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