The National Police Wellbeing Awards are now open. These awards are your opportunity to recognise work that’s made a real difference to the wellbeing of officers, staff and volunteers across policing.
If your team, force or service has delivered something that’s had a clear impact—however big or small—we want to hear about it.
This year, we've taken a fresh approach to our awards categories. We have done this based on feedback from forces and with the aim of making it easier to shout about the work you're doing and connecting it to national approaches.
The new categories:
- Peer support
- OK9 wellbeing dogs
- Operation Hampshire
- Healthy living (sleep and fatigue, physical fitness, nutrition)
- Occupational health
- Trauma support and suicide prevention
- Support for police families or police leavers
Staff engagement
What we’re looking for
We’re not asking for long or polished submissions. We want short, clear entries that show:
- what was delivered
- how it was done
- what changed as a result
We’re particularly interested in how local initiatives have used national tools and resources, or contributed to wider good practice. You don’t need a comms team to write this. We just want to understand what you did and how it helped.
How to apply
The awards are open to police forces from across the UK.
You can nominate a project, intervention, new working practice (i.e. meeting/working group/policy), or scheme.
The nomination is for the organisation, not for an individual. However, if there has been one individual that has made a significant contribution to the projects’ success, they may be referenced within the nomination.
The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2025, forces will be notified if they have been shortlisted early October and the winners will be announced our our conference on 17 November.
For full details, category criteria and the application form visit our 'How to enter page' using the link below