In 2017 we launched The Legacy Award to celebrate Diana’s legacy in the 20th Anniversary year. The Legacy Award aims to create opportunities for the world’s leading humanitarian and social activists and strengthen their impact.
In 2017 we launched The Legacy Award to celebrate Diana’s legacy in the 20th Anniversary year. Taking place every two years, this unique accolade celebrates the achievements of the 20 most outstanding Diana Award Recipients from the previous two years who have changed the world, as the late Princess Diana believed they could.
Legacy Award Recipients receive two years of bespoke support aimed at creating opportunities and strengthening their impact. Alongside a week-long residential experience and Legacy Award Ceremony, Legacy Award Recipients receive coaching, mentoring, skills-building, and networking support.
The 2024 Legacy Award Experience was sponsored by Gilead Sciences and supported by Atrum and British Airways.
The Legacy Award Ceremony took place at the Science Museum, London in March 2024, with awards presented by HRH The Prince of Wales in The Diana Award’s 25th anniversary year, learn more about it here.
Browse through our latest Legacy Award Recipients and be inspired by their stories.
Browse through the archives of our 2021 Legacy Award recipients and be inspired by their stories.
Browse through the archives of our 2019 Legacy Award recipients and be inspired by their stories.
Browse through the archives of our 2017 Legacy Award recipients and be inspired by their stories.
Be inspired by our past and current Diana Award recipients across the globe who are campaigning, volunteering and fundraising their way to a better world in #DianasLegacy.
To be eligible for the Legacy Award, you must first receive the Diana Award within the previous two co-horts.
Diana Award nominations also shortlisted for the Legacy Award will go through an additional review by the Legacy Award Judging Panel before the final 20 Legacy Award Recipients are selected.
Diana Award Recipients will be notified by The Diana Award team if they have been selected to receive the Legacy Award.
The Legacy Award aims to create opportunities for the world’s leading humanitarian and social activists, strengthen their impact and inspire a generation of young people to change the world. We do this through two years of group sessions, events and one-to-one support, including a residential week of training and networking, a Legacy Award Ceremony to celebrate their accomplishments.
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Nicholas was born with a large congenital melanocytic nevus. This is classified under the Disability Act and medical terminology as 'disfigurement' with Nicholas strongly disagrees with, advocating for facial equality.
When Femi was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at the age of seven, he wondered how it would shape his life, not realising the incredible influence he would have on other young people who were also neuro-divergent.
Mercy is a courageous social activist who has used her own personal painful experience of stigma and discrimination to drive her commitment and pursuit of equality of young people living with HIV.
