Youth Matters Awards 2025

Early Bird tickets are now on sale!

Early bird tickets will be available until Sunday 5 October for the below prices:

• Early Bird Individual £60.00 +VAT
• Early Bird Table of 10 £595.00 +VAT

After which, full price tickets will be available at the below prices:

• Full Price Individual £85.00 +VAT
• Full Price Table of 10 £850.00 +VAT

Tickets can be purchased via card or invoice.

• Getting there

Address: City Central at the HAC, Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4TW
Moorgate is the nearest underground station and is a very short walk from the venue. Taxis should drop guests off on Chiswell Street and guests can walk to the venue entrance on Finsbury Street.

• Timings

4pm: Drinks reception
5:30pm: Dinner
7:30pm: Awards
9:30pm: Carriages

• Parking

The nearest parking is JustPark (on Lamb’s Passage or Beech Street) or NCP on Finsbury Square.

• Dress code

Dress to impress! Think evening or cocktail attire.

Meet your 2025 host: Richie Anderson!

Richie is the host of his own Sunday night show on BBC Radio 2 and a regular cover presenter for some of the station’s biggest names, including Rylan, Dermot O’Leary, and Sara Cox. In 2025, he has been announced as a presenter on the BBC hit show, Escape To The Country. He has also returned to Channel 4’s Celebrity Gogglebox and commentated on the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals for the fourth year running. Richie is a regular on BBC One’s The One Show, presenting a mix of impactful and entertaining films — including a powerful segment about coming out to his football team, which earned him an RTS Award. He’s no stranger to prime-time TV, having danced in Strictly Come Dancing’s second all male partnership in 2022, co-hosted the Platinum Party at the Palace for The Queen’s Jubilee, and competed on Celebrity MasterChef in 2023.

All nominations are reviewed by our expert judging panel, which includes industry leaders, sector partners and young people representing the diverse range of voices in the communities we serve.

Meet the 2025 Judging Panel: 

• James Roberton – National Director, #BeeWell 
• Vicky Browning – Interim CEO, UK Youth 
• Helen Gray – Trust Director, Benefact Trust 
• Barry Fletcher – CEO, Youth Futures Foundation 
• Dan Lewes – Co-CEO, My Life My Say 
• Rose Vestey – Vestey Holdings  
• Peter McCorkell – Partner, Sidley Austin 
• Dr Catharine Skinner – Head of Customer Insight, Cadent Gas

Meet your Youth Matters Awards 2025 finalists

Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for our Youth Matters Awards 2025 finalists. After more than 16,000 votes cast, voting is now closed.

The outstanding award recipients will be announced at our Youth Matters Awards event on Friday 14 November. We can’t wait to celebrate the incredible young people, staff, volunteers and projects across England and Wales that make a positive difference in their communities every day.

Explore our finalists’ stories below.

The generous support of our sponsors makes the YMCA’s Youth Matters Awards possible. Take a look at this year’s sponsors and learn how their work supports us in delivering the best night in YMCA’s calendar.

Join us in celebrating the remarkable achievements of young people and the lives changed through innovative projects run by YMCAs across England and Wales while giving your colleagues and clients an inspiring and feel-good evening at this extraordinary event.

Contact corporate@ymca.org.uk to discover how you can get involved with our annual Youth Matters Awards.

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