Volunteer in Sport Awards 2025

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2024 Awards News

Nominations Closing Date Extended!

Nominations Closing Date Extended!

Dec 17, 2024

The deadline to nominate a volunteer in your local sports club has been extended until Thursday morning 19th of December at 10:00am. So there's still time to celebrate a volunteer that makes a standout contribution to your club. Why not fill out the entry form today?

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‘First medal on global stage is well within my reach’

‘First medal on global stage is well within my reach’

Nov 14, 2024

Big ambitions: Irish Olympian Sarah Lavin, pictured with Phelim Macken Limerick Sports Partnership and Mary O'Connor Federation of Irish Sport  Irish Daily Mail, 13.11.24 By MARK GALLAGHER For more info or to submit a nomination, visit www.volunteersinsport.ie ie...

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The 2025 Volunteers in Sport Awards will be celebrated on Thursday 26th February 2026. Details to follow shortly.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of our sporting clubs and communities, without them there would be no teams coached, matches played, pitches prepared, sandwiches made, trips organised, races run or courts kept in condition. Each week over 450,000 people volunteer to help make sport happen. And their efforts are worth over €1.5bn to the economy.

The Federation of Irish Sport hosts the Volunteers in Sport Awards as a unique celebration to honour and recognise individuals who are part of the wider volunteering community involved in sport, who give freely of their time, skills and efforts in a variety of ways through the structure of sports clubs and/or community organisations in Ireland.

Complete the entry form to celebrate the volunteer you admire most. There will be 32 county winners decided*, each winning a commemorative prize and an overall award for Outstanding Achievement.

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