Our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards recognise our exceptional individuals and teams for their dedication and commitment to our vision: ‘creating high quality, compassionate care and wellbeing for all’ and our values of compassion, respect, integrity and trust.
The awards, which is a fully sponsored event, are a superb opportunity to celebrate the significant contribution of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) staff and volunteers, and to share their achievements for the wider benefit of patients, service users and staff.
Nominations for the Celebrating Excellence Awards 2025
Nominations for this year’s Celebrating Excellence Awards are now open!
Please complete one of the nomination forms below.
All nominees will receive a thank you letter from our chief executive. All shortlisted nominees and their nominators will be invited to the awards ceremony on the evening of 26 September (venue to be confirmed).
Categories for Celebrating Excellence Awards 2025
The following award categories recognise the diverse ways in which our Trust delivers excellence for our patients, service users and staff:
- Team of the Year Award
- Delivering Exceptional Care Award*
- Excellence in Enabling Services Award
- Excellence in Research Award
- Excellence in Leadership Award
- Excellence in Quality Improvement or Innovation Award
- Learner of the Year Award
- Excellence in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
- Volunteer of the Year Award*
- Unsung Hero of the Year – Compassion Award* (special award presented by our CEO and Chair)
- Excellence in Partnerships Award
- Excellence in Patient or Service User Involvement Award*
- Group Excellence Award
*open for public nominations
View the criteria for each award
Make a nomination
Nomination form for staff, volunteers and partners.
Nomination form for members of the public.
Further information
For further information about the Celebrating Excellence Awards 2025, please contact the communications team: lpt.communications@nhs.net
Sponsorship
Want to sponsor the awards?
Sponsoring the awards is a unique opportunity to be part of a two-month publicity campaign aimed at more than 7,000 staff, our 3,000 members, hundreds of volunteers and our hundreds of thousands of service users and patients. It also provides you with a chance to attend the awards ceremony with our nominees, winners, senior leadership and Trust Board members and reap the brand benefit of the media and publicity campaign around the winners.
If you would like be a sponsor for this year’s awards, please contact our Raising Health fundraising manager Magda Korytkowska: Magdalena.Korytkowska@nhs.net.