The list of winners has been announced for the 2025 Covenant and Services Awards.

The awards ceremony took place at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland on Thursday July 3 in front a packed audience.

The Services Awards which take place each summer and produced by the National Armed Forces & Emergency Services Events (NAFESE) team, celebrate the best in service from armed to emergency to volunteer.

The 2025 event took on a special addition in the form of the Covenant Awards ‘25 - a one-off celebration marking 25 years since the inception of the modern Armed Forces Covenant.

The Covenant Awards features three categories - Most Outstanding Charity/CIC, Most Outstanding Private Sector and Most Outstanding Public Sector and is designed to showcase organisations who have gone the extra mile in one form or another during the 25 years since the Armed Forces Covenant was first mentioned.

The Services Awards features nine categories - Most Outstanding Royal Navy/Royal Marines, Most Outstanding Police/Law Enforcement, Most Outstanding British Army, Most Outstanding NHS/Healthcare, Most Outstanding Royal Air Force, Most Outstanding Fire Service, Most Outstanding Volunteer Service, Mental Health Champion (across all services) and Most Outstanding Overall.

This year’s Services Awards Overall Winner was RAF Veteran, Andrew Holloway who designed the Sensory Pod Initiative - a first of its kind solution in Amazon Logistics operations globally. The Sensory Pod offers a quiet, customisable space where individuals can take breaks to reset when feeling overwhelmed.

 

Event Director for NAFESE, Mal Robinson added, “each year you think you have heard it all in terms of heroism and selflessness, when it comes to people in the services and each year, you become equally as humbled and astounded at the sheer level of the most professional of people...it really is a proud moment for everyone, when the awards

come round each year.”

The list of winners can be found in full below.

Covenant Awards

Most Outstanding Charity/CIC

Veterans in Crisis

Most Outstanding Private Sector

Amanet

Most Outstanding Public Sector

North East Ambulance Service

Services Awards 2025

Most Outstanding Royal Navy/Royal Marines

Mr David Bathgate (Veteran) - Military vs Cancer

Most Outstanding Police/Law Enforcement

PC Nicola Crabbe - Wiltshire Police

Most Outstanding British Army

Lt Col Matthew Cann - RMP, Loan Service Team Brunei

Most Outstanding NHS/Healthcare

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

 

Most Outstanding Royal Air Force

Mr Andrew Holloway (Veteran) - Amazon UK

Most Outstanding Fire Service

Crew Commander Danielle Hood - West Midlands Fire Service

Most Outstanding Volunteer (in Association with Stagecoach)

Mrs Lindsay Sykes - The Scouts

Mental Health Champion (in Association with Aviation Action)

Mr Sean Phelps (Veteran) - HM Prison Service

Overall Winner

Mr Andrew Holloway (Veteran) - Amazon UK