London Youth Awards 2025 Winners!
On Thursday 6 November, we had the privilege of standing alongside youth workers, young people, volunteers, charities and partners from across the capital at the London Youth Awards 2025 a wonderful celebration of the people and projects shaping London’s youth sector. Held at the historic Christchurch Spitalfields, the event brought together 250 guests to honour winners across nine categories, including the prestigious Prince Philip Award, with HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, funders, policymakers and sector leaders in attendance.
We’re incredibly proud to share that Spiral Skills won the Social Action Award, recognising the impact of our young Changemakers, their community leadership, creation of safer spaces, and advocacy for systems change
The Social Action Award celebrates youth-led work that tackles real issues affecting young Londoners and empowers young people to lead meaningful change. It recognises programmes co-created with young people, community-based impact, lived-experience leadership, and youth voices shaping decisions and solutions. For us, this award represents the heart of our mission young people leading the way in building safer, stronger, and more connected communities.
This award is for incredible Changemakers, Tafari, Abdoul, Angie, Jhemar, Daryl, Joshua, Demetri, Sabrina and Jhemar for their incredible work across social action centered projects :
Through the McDonalds Makin It programme, they helped over 1,000 young people feel safer and more connected to their communities.
With Ecosystem Coldharbour, they worked alongside the MET Police to improve community engagement, deliver cultural-competency training, and bring lived-experience leadership to the Young People’s Action Group on violence prevention and early intervention.
They collectively secured £150K investment to develop their own early-intervention enterprises focused on preventing violence, strengthening emotional resilience, and creating safer environments for young people in Lambeth and beyond.
As part of the Lambeth Peer Action Collective, they engaged 400 young people, gathered real insights into violence and safety, and created a 12-point manifesto for change presented to parliament to campaign for safer housing, stronger youth services, fairer education and real opportunities for young people.
Through the Young Futures Workspace, they led the co-design process, shaping the vision, space needs, branding and key criteria, to shape a prototype for an inspiring, inclusive, future-focused youth space.
Our sincere congratulations to these inspiring young people leading change in their communities.
Celebrating Everyone Who Made This Possible
Our sincere appreciation to London Youth for this wonderful acknowledgement. We were honoured to stand alongside so many inspiring organisations, volunteers and youth workers. Special shoutouts to the other brilliant winners across this year’s nine categories, including Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance with Future MOLDS Communities, Lewisham Music, Breadwinners, Prospex, Action Breaks Silence, Stephen Pevsner at ThinkForward, Veronika Shliakhova and Majeda Begum at Streets of Growth.
Looking Ahead
Winning Social Action of the Year strengthens our drive to continue building:
youth-led spaces
meaningful local opportunities
systems shaped by lived experience
supportive environments where young people can thrive
To our young people, our staff team, our partners and our wider community, this award belongs to all of us. Your commitment and leadership continue to guide our work and strengthen everything we do. We are excited for what comes next, and we will continue to build it with you.
Thank you London Youth!
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