Established in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Diana Award is the most prestigious accolade a young person aged 9-25 years can receive for their social action or humanitarian work.
Diana Award nominations are currently closed and will reopen in 2025.
To be eligible for the Diana Award, nominees must be aged between 9 and 25 at the time of their nomination. Please note that you cannot nominate yourself, your family or your friends for the Diana Award.
Diana Award Nominations are currently closed and will reopen in 2025. For email reminders please register below.
Demonstrates the nominee’s commitment and passion to optimistic social action.
Demonstrates the impact of the nominee’s social action work on a local and/or global scale, including an intention to continue creating an impact.
Demonstrates how the nominee is supporting, inspiring, and mobilising the current and future generations of young people to carry out social action work.
Demonstrates how the nominee has led, owned, and shaped their social action work.
Demonstrates any personal challenges or obstacles the nominee has had to overcome in their social action work, and how they have learned from this experience.
Diana Award recipients will be celebrated at our virtual Award Ceremony in December 2024 and will receive their certificates by post in January 2025.
Recipients of The Diana Award are also eligible for the Legacy Award, which takes place on a biennial basis.
Read more about the Legacy Award here.
Throughout the year The Diana Award holds lots of events around the Award. Here are some key dates for your diary. Want to discuss your nomination in more detail? Call us on +44 20 39 342160 or email nominations@diana-award.org.uk
Diana Award Nominations are currently closed and will reopen in 2025. For email reminders please register here.
Taking place every two years, the award celebrates the achievements of 20 outstanding young leaders, visionaries and role models from across the world, who have demonstrated their ability to inspire and mobilise new generations to service their communities, as the late Princess Diana believed they could.
As well as receiving The Legacy Award at a special event, recipients also have access to a unique Development Programme. Find out more about the Development Programme from our 2019 Legacy Award recipients here.
To be eligible for The Legacy Award, you must first receive a Diana Award in the previous two years. Nominators are not required to complete any additional paperwork for the Legacy Award and will be contacted by the Awards Team if their Diana Award recipient is successful.
Read more about the Legacy Award.
Yes, the young person must be aged 9-25 years at the time of your Diana Award Nomination and must have carried out the activity for 12 months or more. Nominations must be made by someone who knows the nominee in a professional capacity. If a nomination is made by a family member it will not be considered valid.
You will need to demonstrate how the young person has gone above and beyond their average peer and the social impact they have made in their community. For full details on the eligibility of young people for a Diana Award please review our Nomination Guide. If you still have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us at nominations@diana-award.org.uk
Once you have submitted your Diana Award Nomination you will receive an email notification confirming receipt so you can rest assured it has been received and is in the queue to be processed by our judging panel.
Each Diana Award Nomination will be reviewed against the criteria by an external regional judging panel, comprising of young people, experts in the youth sector, business and educational professionals.
Your Diana Award Nomination may be unsuccessful in several instances examples as follows:
You will be contacted regarding the outcome of your nomination in all instances.
All Diana Award recipients will be invited to Virtual Diana Award Ceremony. Each recipient will be mailed a personalised Diana Award certificate and celebrated with their peers.
All Award recipients will also be given access to our Development Programme which aims to support Award recipients to further their social impact, alongside personal and professional development.
If your nomination is successful for the Legacy Award your young person will be invited to the biennial Legacy Award Ceremony. They will also be invited to join our unique Legacy Award Development Programme.
