Crowborough Community First Responders shortlisted for a national charity award

CROWBOROUGH COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDERS has been shortlisted for the UK-wide Charity Today Awards 2019, it was recently announced. The charity is in the running for the HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE AWARD. Crowborough Community First Responders is one of just four charities from across the entire UK to have made the category’s final shortlist.

The Charity Today Awards gives charities the chance to tell their success stories to both national and regional audiences, regardless of their size, through the UK’s most prestigious and diligent charity awards programme.

The Charity Today Awards celebrate and reward true excellence within the sector, awarding the work done by charities and individuals who continue to raise the bar by setting new standards each year.

UK Charity Week founder Lee Rayment, who heads the judges for the Charity Today Awards, said: "We want to congratulate all of our finalists, and in particular those who unfortunately did not make the next stage of the process. It was incredibly difficult to narrow so many quality nominations down, but we took our time to carry out our due diligence on every single application and we’re satisfied that we have the strongest finals possible. This is set to be a very inspirational and humbling evening”

Leigh Westwood, the Team Leader for Crowborough Community First Responders, said: “We are extremely honoured to be nominated and shortlisted in this category. The whole team is extremely dedicated in their commitment to our community and surrounding parishes. It is tremendous that as a result of the hardwork, the team is being recognised in such a prestigious national award”

You can follow the awards on Twitter via @CharityAwards or by using the hashtag

#charitytodayawards. Winners will be announced at a celebratory event on Saturday 7th September at the Key Theatre, Peterborough.