Your Heroes Awards 2026 - Help us to honour Your Heroes!

Your Heroes Awards

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Help us to honour Your Heroes!

The Your Heroes Awards celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026!

This annual, much-loved Staffordshire event celebrates the amazing, unsung heroes who make significant contributions to their communities within our county.

The awards celebrate the remarkable individuals and groups who make an outstanding difference across Staffordshire.

We emphasise the word Your to highlight that these awards belong to the community – because it is the people of Staffordshire who nominate, recognise and honour their own local heroes.

Your Heroes is sponsored by Lucideon, Drayton Beaumont, Sempar, Woolcool, PREM Management, Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce, The Potteries Educational Trust, KMF and Shepherd PR – and is organised at University of Staffordshire.

We are also immensely grateful for the support of businesses and organisations including Port Vale FC, Port Vale Foundation, Stoke City FC, Stoke City Foundation, World of Wedgwood, Ambassador Theatre Group, Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID, Newcastle-under-Lyme BID, Cross Rhythms City Radio and Alton Towers.

The Your Heroes campaign recognises Children of Courage, Future Stars, Charity Champions, Volunteers, Community Groups, NHS Heroes, Inspirations in Education, Carers, Uniformed Heroes, Individuals and organisations demonstrating Civic Pride and Sporting Icons.

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“The Your Heroes Awards campaign is one of the most important events on the Civic calendar because it celebrates the people and organisations that are, quite genuinely, the glue which bind our communities together."

"We are proud to share the stories of these humbling, unassuming individuals and groups – and highlight what a remarkable, friendly and inspiring place we live in. I am grateful to the sponsors and supporting partners who make Your Heroes possible."

"Ain’t no party like a Your Heroes party!”

Martin Tideswell, Director of Commercial Strategy, University of Staffordshire

Nicola Stanway – Inspiration in Education nominee

Nicola Stanway leads Caudwell Children’s Shaping Futures Programme, set up to empower neurodivergent young people aged 16 to 25 to unlock their potential and take their next steps in life with confidence and purpose. Nicola has built the…

15 Sep 2026

Ash Green Primary Academy PTFA – Community Group of the Year nomination

A primary school’s parent, teacher and friends association has brought together the school community, local residents and businesses to raise £70,000 over the past year. Jodie Cope, the Headteacher of Ash Green Primary Academy, which is part of…

14 Sep 2026

Jericho Come As You Are CIC – Community Group of the Year nomination

Originally launched to help homeless people sleeping in shop doorways in Bentilee, Jericho – Come As You Are CIC now takes its services out into the streets of the city centre to support some of Stoke-on-Trent’s most vulnerable…

14 Sep 2026

Shaun Mitchell – Inspiration in Education nominee

The classroom of Endon High School teacher Shaun Mitchell is usually filling up with pupils when other people are leaving at the end of the school day. For more than a decade the school’s Director of Teaching and…

Your Heroes Awards 2026 - Help us to honour Your Heroes!