Nominations for the 2025 award can be submitted between 14^th November 2025 and 4^th January 2026.

All nominations must be submitted via the official nomination form.

Nominations should reference significant contributions made during 2025.

SSAFA’s Values and Standards are powerful in that together, they underpin and provide guidance for everything that we do, regardless of role or location.

Individuals and Teams:

Nominees must have truly stood out in embodying one or more of the SSAFA values:

• Commitment
• Understanding
• Integrity
• Compassion

And consistently exemplify SSAFA’s standards:

• Beneficiary focused
• Respect for others
• Adapting to change
• Valuing diversity and inclusion
• Excellence in everything we do

And must have significantly assisted our beneficiaries (directly or indirectly), raised SSAFA’s profile and reputation, or raised funds to a level beyond expectation.

Sir James Gildea Partnering Award: Nominees must demonstrate one or more of the SSAFA Values and have significantly raised SSAFA’s profile and reputation or raised funds to a level beyond expectation. Nominees can be an organisation or an individual.

A person can be nominated for an award if they have previously received one (please see the Gildea Award pages on SSAFAnet and Previous Winners on Volunteer Knowledgebase on to check) however, please ensure your nomination is relevant to their activities during 2025 and the nomination is significantly different to the previous one.

For more guidance on nomination content and the format of the nomination form, please read Nomination Criteria.

• Any SSAFA volunteer or employee can nominate any other SSAFA volunteer, employee, team or external partner.
• Team nominations must be made to specific teams, not departments e.g. Events Team not Fundraising Department.
• You can submit multiple nominations for different people.
• A person can be nominated for an award if they have previously received one However, please ensure your nomination is relevant to their activities during 2025 and the nomination is significantly different to the previous one.
• Please note, you cannot nominate yourself, or your own team.

Complete the nomination form here. 

All Local Award nominations are submitted to the relevant Regional Manager/Head of Service/Director, who will short list and present a selection of exceptional winners to the Governance Committee for consideration for a Global Award.

The Governance Committee will then select 12 volunteers, 2 employees & 1 external partner to be SSAFA’s Global Award winners.

Our individual Volunteer Global Awards are kindly sponsored by Room to Reward who provide each winner with a voucher for a short getaway in one of their selected associated hotels.

If you are unsure about how to progress your nomination or need more support, please contact [email protected].