2026 Community Radio Awards - Sponsored by Aiir

Entries open on the 18th of May and close on 30th of June

Gold, Silver, and Bronze award winners for each category will be announced at our awards ceremony later in the year.

We are inviting stations, volunteers, and staff from community radio stations to submit entries to the awards. Stations, volunteers, and staff are welcome to submit as many entries as they wish under each category (except for one entry per station for Station of the Year).

Broadcast material, content, activity etc must have taken place between 1st June 2025 and 30th June 2026

Foreign Language Shows & Content (eg non English) - are more than welcome to enter any of the categories, we do require an English written transcript (ideally with timecodes) submitted with the entry (Word or PDF transcription upload on each category)

T&C of Submission - by submitting an entry you are agreeing to the below:

"A radio station that is Ofcom licensed and broadcasting via that licence operated by a not-for-profit or charitable entity with  broadcasting to serve a community of location or a locally based community of identity or interest" for any questions or clarity on eligibility, contact hello@communityradioawards.org.uk

Material for entries must be original and must have been broadcast on the station for which the entry has been submitted.

All submission time lengths and word counts listed are maximums, any entry that exceeds any of these requirements may be disqualified

You give the Community Radio Awards permission to share and use all material submitted as part of the awards entry process to promote the awards and entries and showcase the work of community radio. 

The awards have the right to engage with station management to confirm validity of submitted entries, which can include sharing entries with station management.

Entries submitted to the awards will be used to celebrate, recognise and promote community radio, and may be shared with partners, funders, sponsors, and externally for those purposes.

As community media organisations are businesses, and submissions are made by agents on their organisations behalf we consider this a business-to-business relationship.

Data submitted on this awards platform is held securely by Submittable. Email addresses and names will also be uploaded to mailing list so we can contact submitters about the progress of the awards.

By submitting an entry we consider the data submitted as part of a contractual arrangement, as such we will use names and email addresses to contact those who have entered to let them know about the progress of the awards and the awards ceremony. If you wish your details and entry to be removed from the awards please contact us.

For any questions or concerns about the awards or data usage, please contact hello@communityradioawards.org.uk

All judging decisions are final and the Community Radio Awards will not enter into any correspondence.

All awards must be paid in full prior to them being accepted for judging, no refunds will be made.

All entries must adhere to the submission requirements as outlined here.

Gold, Silver, and Bronze award winners for each category will be announced at our awards ceremony later in the year.

Previous Gold winners, if you win Gold in one year you are unable to re-enter that category with the same entry the following year.

This means for example station awards (eg station of the year), individual awards (eg young person, sage, man, woman etc) or show awards (eg entertainment, specialist content, specialist music etc) if you won last year you cannot re-enter for this year.

This does not prevent other shows or individuals from the station from entering those categories this year.

This also does not prevent you from entering other shows or other individual categories outside of the one you received Gold in last year.

We do this to prevent the same entries winning year on year to give others a chance.

Any questions or if you need any further clarity do contact us.