In pictures: Charities, volunteers and more celebrated at Northamptonshire Community Foundation's awards night

The event took place at the Royal theatre on Wednesday November 26. The awards night is hosted annually to recognise the vital work carried out by the local organisations the NCF funds.

This year’s winners:

Volunteer Action East Northamptonshire won the Building Better Communities Award

People's Theatre Collective won the Celebrating Culture and Heritage Award

Delapré Abbey Preservation Trust won the Excellence in Education Award

Headway East Northants won the Happy and Healthy Communities Award

Higham Gateway Club - Registered Charity no 1120121 won the Tackling Inequalities Award

SNYE won the Northamptonshire High Sheriff's Initiative Award

Dylan Jake, who volunteers for Lumina Arts Alliance won the Lady Juliet Townsend Award for Volunteering

Northamptonshire Community Foundation is the county's largest independent grant-making charity, having awarded more than £24 million in grants since being established in 2001.

Next year, the Foundation will mark 25 years of working to improve the lives of the county's most vulnerable residents.

Below are pictures from the Northamptonshire Community Foundation’s awards night 2025.