This year’s three awards are:

The Community Excellence Award: Adult Health and Social Care sponsored by Anthony Collins Solicitors
This award recognises Christian-motivated community projects seeking to enrich the lives of adults with physical, learning or sensory disabilities, dementia or mental health difficulties.

The Improving the Lives of Children and Young People Award sponsored by Spurgeons Network
This award seeks to recognise the vital work of projects motivated by the Christian faith that are positively impacting the lives of disadvantaged children and young people.

The Community Inclusion Award sponsored by Oasis UK
This award seeks to recognise projects that promote inclusion and challenge injustice within a local urban context. 

There will also be special awards for all shortlisted projects, who will each be presented £100. One project within each award category will also be given special commendation, receiving £500.  The shortlist awards are sponsored by Kingdom Bank.

The Faithworks Awards are a prestigious annual programme. The recipients of last year’s grants were honoured by the Prime Minister in a special reception at 10 Downing Street in June.

Malcolm Duncan, leader of the Faithworks Movement, said the awards provided a vital spotlight on Christian community action:

“Our awards programme is like a window on the massive world of Christian social action,“ he said. “Each year we are overwhelmed by the applications we receive from projects where people really are giving themselves away for others. Their work is sacrificial, sustained and committed. These people are the true leaders of the Faithworks Movement.”

The recipients will be selected through a thorough assessment process by panels made up of representatives from the sponsor organisations, the Faithworks Support Team and the Faithworks Movement. The short-listed projects will be informed in March and the recipients will be announced at an Awards Ceremony in June 2009. 

For more information and full criteria for all the awards, visit www.faithworks.info/awards

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For more information contact Hannah Horton on 07533 858344 or Hannah.horton@faithworks.info

Faithworks is a movement of thousands of individuals, churches and organisations motivated by their Christian faith to serve the needs of their local communities and positively influence society as a whole.  Faithworks exists to resource, inspire and speak up for these vital initiatives.

The Faithworks Movement is based on partnership with many organisations, projects and churches working together.