# Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services gets one-off addition for Jubilee

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/05/05/queens-award-for-voluntary-services-gets-one-off-addition-for-jubilee/
- Published: 2022-05-05T10:00:00+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Government has today announced a special addition to the annual Queen’s Award
for Voluntary Service (QAVS), in honour of this year’s Platinum Jubilee. **

To reflect 20 years of [QAVS](https://qavs.dcms.gov.uk/), the one-off Queen’s Platinum
Jubilee Award for Volunteering will shine a spotlight on 20 national charities working
to empower young people aged 16-25. It will be judged by a panel of civil society
sector experts and youth representatives including Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson,
Fionnuala Jay O’Boyle and Ndidi Okezie. 

Sir Martyn Lewis CBE, the QAVS Chair said: 

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> “Her Majesty’s faithful service to the nation over 70 years has been an inspiration
> to us all and is mirrored by countless acts of volunteering happening each day
> across the UK.
>  
> “For this special Jubilee Award we are looking forward to celebrating outstanding
> work with young people, helping them to flourish and be the best they can be. 
> It’s a theme that’s important to all of us and is close to Her Majesty’s heart.”

The Platinum Jubilee Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is [open for applications](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-queens-platinum-jubilee-volunteering-award)
until 17 June. Nationally registered charities helping young people (aged 16-25),
who have had a national impact either on a UK-wide, or England, Scotland, Wales 
or Northern Ireland basis are invited to apply. 

The 20 winners to be announced in The Gazette in October, and presented with their
award at a ceremony in November.  

Nominations for the 2023 QAVS awards are open until **15 September 2022**.

Recent QAVS winners include:

 * **Small Acts of Kindness** who provide practical gift bags to lonely and socially
   isolated older people in Hertfordshire and signpost them to support services.
 * **Equation** in Nottingham who deliver projects in schools and the community 
   to help prevent domestic abuse and encourage healthy relationships.
 * **Gurnos Men’s Project **in Glamorgan who get disengaged young men involved in
   community volunteering and horticulture, as well as helping them improve core
   skills.
 * **Second Wave Centre for Youth Arts** in London who run creative projects with
   young people and work with them to explore key issues such as knife crime and
   grooming. 
 * **Friends of M.V. Freedom** in Dorset who take disabled people out to sea on 
   a specially adapted boat.
 * **Via Wings** in County Down who provide a wide range of support to those in 
   need, including a food bank, teenage supper club, homework support, learning,
   and counselling.
 * **Westhill & District Men’s Shed** in Aberdeenshire where socially isolated men
   can share skills, make friends and work together on repairing/refurbishing projects
   for the community.  

 * **[Record number of organisations awarded in the Queens Award for Voluntary Service 2019](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/06/06/record-number-of-organisations-awarded-2019-queens-awards/)(
   6 June 2019)**
 * **[£22m funding package announced to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/11/17/22m-funding-package-announced-to-commemorate-queens-platinum-jubilee/)(
   17 November 2021)**
 * **[Nominations for Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2014 close this month](https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/09/22/nominations-queens-award-voluntary-service-2014-close-this-month/)(
   22 September 2013)**