Cllr Awards 2022 winners announced 🏆
Running for the 13th year across England & Wales and 5th year in Scotland, these are the only national awards celebrating the vital work of councillors.
Cllr Awards 2022 England & Wales
Discover the winners or watch the ceremony back.
Cllr Awards 2022 Scotland
England & Wales
Cllr Awards England & Wales 2022 winners
Community Champion
Cllr Jabba Riaz – Worcester City Council
Cllr Cameron Beart – Swale Borough Council (Highly commended)
Leader of the Year
Cllr Teresa O’Neill OBE – London Borough of Bexley
Cllr Peray Ahmet – London Borough of Haringey (Highly commended)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Cllr Lewis Herbert – Cambridge City Council
Cllr Hilda Rhodes – Telford and Wrekin Council
Resilience and Recovery
Cllr Peter McDonald – South Cambridgeshire District Council
Young Councillor of the Year
Cllr Mariam Dawood – London Borough of Newham
Cllr Josh Babarinde OBE – Eastbourne Borough Council (Highly commended)
Meet our 2022 Cllr Awards England & Wales judges.
This year’s Awards are only possible thanks to the generous support of our founding partners CCLA.
CCLA is a leading specialist fund manager for local authorities and charities. When they began sponsoring the Cllr Awards they had 22 local authority client accounts. Today they have over 700 and this number is growing every month. CCLA are owned by their clients – their mission is to serve the whole sector, regardless of size.
Scotland
Cllr Awards 2022 Scotland winners
Community Champion
Cllr David Macdonald – East Renfrewshire Council
Cllr Stephen Burns – Renfrewshire Council (Highly commended)
Leader of the Year
As we mark the 5th anniversary of Cllr Awards, councils across Scotland have delivered in the face of the most turbulent and worrying years in recent history. Councillors have been responding to the pandemic, helping residents through the cost of living crisis, supporting refugees, delivering aid in response to the war in Ukraine and helping communities to come together to mourn the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In this difficult context, we feel it is essential to take this moment in time to celebrate all local leadership across Scotland. As such, the Cllr Awards will be showcasing and recognising the leadership of each Council Leader in Scotland (those currently in post as well as those serving up to the May 2022 elections) for their remarkable contributions to local government over the last two years.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Bailie Malcolm Cunning – Glasgow City Council (in memoriam)
Resilience and Recovery
Cllr Maureen Chalmers – South Lanarkshire Council
Cllr Chris Cullen – South Ayrshire Council (Highly commended)
Young Councillor of the Year
Cllr Connor McManus – Midlothian Council
Meet our 2022 Cllr Awards Scotland judges.
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Cllr Awards through the years
Watch the ceremony: England & Wales 2021
Watch the ceremony: Scotland 2021
Watch the ceremony: England & Wales 2020
Watch the ceremony: Scotland 2020
Cllr Achievement Awards 2019 England
LGIU and CCLA’s Cllr Achievement Awards are the only awards celebrating the important work of councillors and the highlight of the year for elected members across England! Read about them here.
Cllr Achievement Awards 2019 Scotland
LGIU Scotland & CCLA Councillor Awards 2019. Learn more now!
LGIU Fortnightly Special: Winners of LGIU & CCLA Cllr Achievement Awards 2019
This episode, LGIU England hosted our annual Cllr Achievement Awards in London, welcoming councillors from across the country to celebrate the amazing work done by the shortlisted councillors and of course our winners. Listen now
All previous winners
View all of the winners from past years here.
Rules & Judging
Councillors may not nominate themselves and nominations for Town/Parish councillors are not accepted. The full list of Cllr Awards rules can be found here.
The winner for each award will be chosen by our judging panel, comprised of senior local government experts. Our 2021 ceremony programmes for Scotland and England and Wales can tell you more about last year’s judges.
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