The team at Cardiff Third Sector Council (C3SC) are pleased to announce the return of the annual Cardiff Volunteer Awards. C3SC is the city’s local charity supporting volunteers and voluntary services, and the Awards is one of our programmes of events which celebrate the incredible positive differences people and groups have made across our communities through volunteering. Now in its eighth year, this annual flagship event allows us the privilege of highlighting many acts of kindness that take place in our diverse local communities, and the genuine differences volunteering makes in people’s lives.
This year’s event will take place from 4:00 pm on Wednesday 2 December 2026 in person at the Coal Exchange Hotel, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5FQ and will be streamed online. We had the pleasure at last year’s event of welcoming over 200 people, and this year we are delighted to have Wales & West Housing join us again as lead event sponsor for this year’s ceremony, along with the other organisations who have kindly supported this year’s awards – Centregreat, The Open University in Wales and Orbits IT – for what we anticipate will be another great success as the Awards continue to grow year on year.
Sheila Hendrickson-Brown, CEO of C3SC said, ‘With hundreds of people every year in Cardiff giving their time freely to volunteer, we hope volunteers, voluntary groups, supporters and funders will join with us to show our appreciation to the community of volunteers across Cardiff who make such positive differences – the Awards offer a fabulous chance to celebrate their huge contribution to wellbeing, inclusion and connection in Cardiff.’
Awara Rasul, Winner of the Outstanding Community Volunteer category in recognition of his commitment to volunteering for over 21 years said, ‘Winning the Outstanding Community Volunteer award at last year’s 2025 Cardiff Volunteer Awards was an incredibly humbling and emotional experience. To have the countless hours of community work formally recognised by the city was completely unexpected, and it truly validated everything our team strives to achieve. More than anything, the award has given us a wonderful platform to raise awareness of our cause and has inspired so many others to step forward and get involved in volunteering this year.’
The awards ceremony will begin with networking and refreshments and a chance to meet and welcome our nominees and guests and will be followed by our Ceremony and announcement of the nominees and winners in a range of categories that shine a light on the diversity of volunteering activity taking place across Wales’s capital city.
To find out more about the Cardiff Volunteer Awards 2026, and to book your place to attend this year’s event please visit our website: https://c3sc.org.uk/cva-2026/ Early booking is recommended as spaces are limited.
We send sincere thanks to everyone who has made a nomination – we received over 100! Nominations are now with our judging panels, who have the very difficult task of selecting who will receive an Award in each of the 10 categories and will be announced at the ceremony.
If you are interested in sponsoring Cardiff’s Volunteer Awards, please find details in our Sponsorship Package which is available here; Visit here to find out how to become a member of C3SC, and if you have any questions or for more information, please contact us here
We hope you can join us to celebrate another great year of volunteering in Cardiff.
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Note to the editor:
Cardiff Third Sector Council is a charity which was established to support and develop Cardiff’s voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector. Working with the Welsh Government, Third Sector Support Wales (TSSW), Cardiff Council and other partners, C3SC is committed to helping voluntary groups and organisations working in Cardiff to develop and deliver inclusive and sustainable services and activities to support communities, to enabling more people to benefit from volunteering, and to providing a collective campaigning voice for this vital sector. Please visit https://c3sc.org.uk/support/
There are 10 categories of awards to be judged by a diverse panel, including 2 categories to be selected from Volunteering-Wales, and a final category winner chosen from the projects supported by the Cardiff Youth Led Grant programme. Find out more about the awards by visiting our Cardiff Volunteer Awards 2026 page on our website.
For press enquiries, please contact: Ebed Akotia – Email: ebed.a@c3sc.org.uk Mobile: 07714 750 707
