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Honours

National Honours and Awards

The honours system recognises people who have:

  • made outstanding achievements in public life

  • committed themselves to serving and helping others especially through voluntary efforts

They’ll usually have made life better for other people or be outstanding at what they do.

You can nominate someone for a National Honour on the following

Link : https://www.gov.uk/honours

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Whether someone gets an honour - and the honour they get - is decided by an honours committee.

 

The committee’s recommendations go to the Prime Minister and then to the King, who awards the honour.

 

Honours List

The lists of those who have received honours are published at New Year and on the King’s official birthday in June.

King’s Award for Voluntary Services

 

The Kings's Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to local volunteer groups across the UK to recognise outstanding work done in their own communities.

The award was  announced in 2002 as part of celebrations for the late Queen Elizabeth the Second's  Golden Jubilee, and was first known as The Queen's Golden Jubilee Award.  It is the MBE for volunteer groups.

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The King's Award for Voluntary Service is an annual award made to recognise and reward excellence in voluntary activities carried out by groups in the community.  It is given for outstanding achievement by groups of volunteers who regularly devote their time to helping others in the community, improving the quality of life and opportunity for others and providing an outstanding service.

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Groups must be nominated: for example, by beneficiaries of their work, members of the public, representatives of public bodies, or other voluntary groups. Nominations are assessed by a regional committee before being passed to a national committee for final selection and recommendation to the King.

Details of winners were announced annually on 2nd June (the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Coronation although this may change to reflect the King's Coronation date most likely in November. 

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Link :   https://www.gov.uk/kings-award-for-voluntary-service

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Previous local Award winners of the QAVS

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  • Foyle Child Contact Centre

  • Foyle U3A

  • Waterside Branch Royal British Legion

  • Britannia Concert Band

  • Caw and Nelson Drive Action Group

  • The Churches Trust Ltd

  • Foyle Hospice Volunteers

  • Foyle Search and Rescue Services

  • Foyle Women's Information Network

  • Western Health and Social Care Trust Volunteers

  • SSAFA

  • Clooney Hall Volunteer Group (Lunch Club and Toddler Group)

  • Foyle Civic Trust

  • Altnagelvin Choir

  • Londonderry Musical Society

  • Kinship Care NI

King's Award for Enterprise

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The King's Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. They are the highest official UK awards for British businesses.

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The scheme was previously established as The Queen's Award to Industry by a royal warrant of 30 November 1965, and individual categories have been known in the past as The Queen's Awards for Export, Export Achievement, Technology, Technological Achievement and Environmental Achievement.

The scheme also includes an award for individuals.

Following  the accession of HM the King, the award title changed.

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Link :  https://www.gov.uk/kings-awards-for-enterprise

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Click to View Previous winners Photos

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