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

Gemma Thomas – Civic Pride and Charity Champion or Volunteer of the Year nomination

Gemma Thomas is dedicated to making Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire a greener, more creative and more connected place to live. A former director of arts organisation Appetite, Gemma is now UHNM Charity’s project manager for arts where she…

29 Sep 2026

PC James Seymour and PC James Conn – Uniformed Hero nomination

PCs James Seymour and James Conn were the first police at the scene of a violent incident involving machetes, a chainsaw and a hostile crowd of up to 70 people. As a direct result of their courage and…

29 Sep 2026

PC Adam Platt – Uniformed Hero nomination

An off-duty policeman rushed to the aid of a security guard cornered by a shoplifter he believed to be armed with a knife. Despite being off duty with no PPE or stab vest, he overpowered the man, brought…

29 Sep 2026

Members of Stafford Local Policing Team – Uniformed Hero nomination

Members of Stafford Local Policing Team helped to prevent a serious injury or death by stopping a woman from falling from a bridge onto the M6 motorway. They held her arm and legs and at one point took…

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