Key Dates for the 2026 Catholic Schools Good Citizenship Awards are as follows:

Submission form opens: Tuesday 5th May 2026 

Closing date for nominations from schools requiring a trophy: Friday 12th June 2026

 Closing date for schools not requiring a trophy: Friday 19th June 2026

Catholic schools within the Diocese of Brentwood are invited to register pupils who have displayed outstanding awareness of good citizenship.

Examples of previous award recipients include:

  • Saving a life;
  • Protecting an individual from injury or harm;
  • Courage in the face of adversity;
  • Resilience in battling illness;
  • Bravery and peace in coping with the loss of a parent or sibling;
  • An passionate advocate of a cause resulting in demonstrable change;
  • Extraordinary care and kindness;
  • Exemplary charity (raising and giving of one-self);
  • Regular modest self-sacrifice.

Recipients are nominated by their school and are presented with their trophy in St Helen’s Cathedral, Brentwood, by Bishop Alan Williams, sm, Bishop of Brentwood. The initiative was inspired by Lord Alton, a former pupil of this Diocese, and supported strongly by the Brentwood Religious Education Service to encourage schools to respond to Government requirements that Citizenship be included in the curriculum.

Brentwood Diocese is committed, to the idea that to be a good Catholic involves being a good citizen, ‘the Gospel of Jesus Christ requires us to “love our neighbour as ourselves” and that is at the heart of the Christian interpretation of citizenship’.

All schools within the Diocese are invited to participate.

Please submit on behalf of your school via this link.

Once your recipient has been submitted, you will receive an email confirmation from ‘pro-Forms’ that we have received your nomination. If you do not receive a confirmation email within 3 working days following submission, please check your Junk/Spam/Quarantine folders. If you still have not received a response, please email [email protected].

We ask that only one submission is made on behalf of each school. Please note, there is no diocesan selection process, once the recipient has been registered by their school, they are the award recipient.