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The Queen’s Awards for Voluntary Service are the highest awards given to volunteer groups across the UK for outstanding work
Find out who can nominate a volunteer group for The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service and which groups can be nominated.
From 2012, a new Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Volunteering Award is introduced. This will be awarded to national organisations involved in volunteering activities, volunteering around the Olympic and Paralympic games volunteering and their legacy.
A new award for national organisations involved in volunteering activities, including the Olympic and Paralympic games and their legacy
The award for groups of people doing volunteering work that is a social, economic or environmental service to the local community
Who is on the assessment panels and committees and how they make their decisions
130 volunteering groups across the UK have been awarded The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
Read about previous winners of The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Download case studies to find out what they did and what winning the award meant to them