APSE is pleased to announce our Annual Service Awards 2025!

These prestigious awards are for all local authorities and their public-sector partners across the United Kingdom recognising your frontline services teams as well as your special initiatives.

The Categories for the 2025 APSE Service Awards are: 

Special initiatives

• Best Workforce initiative
• Best Building and Housing initiative
• Best Efficiency and Transformation initiative
• Best Health and Well-being initiative (including Social Care)
• Best Public / Private Partnership Working initiative
• Best Collaborative Working initiative (with other public sector or third sector)
• Best Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship initiative
• Best Community and Neighbourhood initiative (this could include special projects such as warm hubs, support for vulnerable families and friends of parks groups etc)
• Best Innovation or Demand Management initiative
• Best Climate Action or Decarbonisation initiative

Frontline Services Teams of the Year

• Soft Facilities Management
• Technical services
• Waste, Recycling and Streetscene
• Parks, Grounds and Horticultural service
• Cemetery and Crematorium service
• Sports, Leisure and Cultural service

And the big one……..

The APSE Overall Council of the Year

This spectacular award is selected from local authorities who have entered submissions in 4 or more different categories

Download Guide (pdf)

How to Enter

Unlike many local government awards the APSE Awards are UK wide so they are open to APSE member and non-member councils from across the UK. It is also FREE to enter. 

To register your interest and receive an application please complete the form below.

Deadlines

Notifications due in by Friday 28 March 2025

Submissions due in by Friday 11 April 2025

Confirmation of entry sent out no later than Friday 30 May 2025

We aim to let successful applicants know if they have been shortlisted as finalists by Thursday 31 July 2025

The Awards Charity Dinner will take place in Scotland in September 2025 (confirmed dates and venue TBC)

Any questions?

Please use the FAQs attached or view our FAQ page online. If that doesn’t answer your question feel free to contact our APSE Service Awards team on 01698 459 051 or email the team at [email protected].