CARE & SUPPORT WEST AWARDS 2025
thursday 2nd October 2025, Ashton Gate stadium, from 5:30pm
Celebrating the 12th Anniversary of the Care and Support West Care Awards.
Nominations for this year are now closed, the shortlist will be announced in due course!
Our 2025 awards have even more opportunities to celebrate people, organisations and leadership with worthy nominations. For the fourth year running now, we will be accepting nominations for The Rainbow Heart Award for excellence in care. Get the latest tips and advice on writing a winning nomination by watching our video on YouTube from our judging panel.
The Annual Care and Support West Care Awards celebrate the hard work and dedication of Care Professionals in the South West. We represent care across Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset; with some 500 Care Providers existing in these regions. With around 19,000 people working within these organisations, it is important we take time each year to acknowledge the positive impact our local sector has on the lives of the most vulnerable in society.
The closing date for nominations was 11th April 2025.
Categories for the Care Awards 2025
Nominations are now closed
Awards for Managers
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Recognises outstanding leadership and compassionate management in a care home setting. Celebrates a manager who demonstrates exceptional commitment to resident wellbeing, staff support, and maintaining high-quality care standards.
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Celebrates exceptional leadership in home-based care services. Recognises a manager who demonstrates outstanding support, innovation, and compassionate management in delivering personalised care to clients in their own homes.
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Honours a manager who excels in creating supportive, empowering environments for individuals with complex needs. Recognises outstanding leadership in promoting independence, individual choice, and high-quality personalised care.
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Acknowledges a manager who brilliantly balances independence and support in extra care housing settings. Celebrates leadership that enhances residents' quality of life through innovative approaches and compassionate management.
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Recognises exceptional management in the challenging and intimate world of live-in care services. Celebrates a leader who ensures the highest standards of personalised, dignified, and compassionate support for clients.
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Highlights the crucial role of deputy managers in delivering outstanding care and support. Celebrates the leadership, dedication, and behind-the-scenes excellence that ensures smooth and high-quality care operations.
Awards for Front-Line Work
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Recognises the often-overlooked heroes who maintain the essential infrastructure of care services. Celebrates workers whose dedication and hard work create clean, safe, and comfortable environments for residents and clients.
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Acknowledges the backbone of care services who ensure smooth operational efficiency. Celebrates professionals whose administrative skills and compassionate approach are critical to delivering high-quality care.
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Celebrates the champions who bring joy, engagement, and meaningful experiences to care settings. Recognises professionals who creatively enhance residents' and clients' quality of life through inspiring and personalised activities and those who support colleagues and teams to enhance and promote their health & wellbeing.
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Honours culinary professionals who go beyond nutrition to create delightful, nourishing, and personalised food experiences. Celebrates chefs who understand the crucial role of food in care settings.
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Recognises professionals dedicated to continuous learning and skill enhancement in care services. Celebrates those who drive quality improvement through innovative training approaches.
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Acknowledges the exceptional individuals who provide round-the-clock, personalised care in clients' homes. Celebrates the compassion, skill, and dedication of live-in care workers.
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Recognises frontline workers who provide exceptional, compassionate care in residential settings. Celebrates individuals who make a profound difference in residents' daily lives.
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Honours home care workers who deliver personalised, high-quality support to clients in their own environments. Celebrates the skill, empathy, and dedication of domiciliary care professionals.
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Acknowledges frontline workers who support individuals with complex needs to live independently. Celebrates those who empower and enable clients' personal growth and autonomy.
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Recognises professionals who provide tailored support in extra care housing environments. Celebrates workers who balance independence with compassionate care.
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Honours nurses who demonstrate exceptional clinical skills, compassion, and commitment to patient care. Celebrates those who go above and beyond in healthcare settings.
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Recognises the dedicated professionals who provide personalised, holistic support to individuals. Celebrates those who enhance clients' independence and quality of life.
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Celebrates the selfless individuals who contribute their time and compassion to care services. Recognises the invaluable impact of volunteers in supporting communities.
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Acknowledges the fresh talents and perspectives entering the care sector. Celebrates the potential, enthusiasm, and early achievements of new professionals.
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Recognises the critical leadership and expertise of senior carers and team leaders. Celebrates those who guide, support, and elevate care quality through their experience.
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Celebrates care teams that demonstrate outstanding collaboration, compassion, and collective achievement. Recognises groups who consistently deliver exceptional care.
Awards for Organisations
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Celebrates organisations providing exceptional residential care with a holistic, person-centred approach. Recognises institutions that consistently deliver high-quality, compassionate care.
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Honours organisations delivering outstanding home-based care services. Recognises providers who prioritise personalised, flexible, and high-quality support.
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Acknowledges organisations excelling in providing comprehensive, personalised live-in care. Celebrates providers who ensure dignity, comfort, and individual choice.
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Recognises organisations that enable individuals with complex needs to live independently. Celebrates providers who create empowering, supportive environments.
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Celebrates organisations delivering innovative, person-centred extra care housing services. Recognises providers who balance independence with comprehensive support.
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Honours organisations demonstrating exceptional approaches to global talent acquisition in care services. Recognises leaders in ethical, supportive international recruitment.
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Celebrates organisations driving positive change through technological, green, and creative projects. Recognises pioneers transforming care through innovative solutions.
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Recognises organisations that create exceptional workplace cultures in care services. Celebrates employers who prioritise staff wellbeing, development, and satisfaction.
THE RAINBOW HEART
The Rainbow Heart was first introduced in 2020 and was designed to shine a light on the heartfelt and challenging work undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an extraordinary time for social care which we feel must be observed, making sure the hard work, sacrifice, and commitment from our region is properly acknowledged.
This year the Award will be given to the person(s) or team(s) showing most Resilience & Creativity in the ongoing “new world” of care. A Rainbow Heart nomination can be made against any of our categories aside from those under the organisation section. Whether it’s an inspirational experience or a story of complete dedication against the odds, we’d love to hear from families, fellow care workers, and leadership.
Please contact us with any questions.
Watch our (10-min) showreel from Care Awards 2024
The Care Awards organisers gratefully acknowledge the generous support already provided by the following: