Global Community Awards

Our annual Community awards celebrate the unsung heroes of O2.

These are the people who willingly donate their time, suggestions and support to our local initiatives and key chosen charities.

The judges look for an O2 employee or group of O2 employees who:

• engaged with communities by volunteering, fundraising or doing development work.
• demonstrated qualities beyond their job role.
• changed people's lives for the better.

Case study: Community awards 2006

The 'O2 Community awards' event is an annual celebration, recognising some of the achievements and contributions that O2 people have made within their local communities and further afield.

Through fundraising, development work and volunteering, award nominees and winners demonstrate a determined and compassionate approach to making people's lives better.

The event was hosted by Peter Erskine, Chairman and CEO of O2 plc and all parts of the O2 business were represented.

There were inspirational speeches from Catherine Millan, a student who turned her life around with the help of the peer mentoring programme run by Weston Spirit and O2; and Britain's most successful Paralympian Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson OBE.

Tommy Harrison of Manx Telecom - the winner in 2005 - gave an incredibly moving speech on how the 'O2 Community Award' prize money has had a huge positive impact on children's lives in Romania.

• Transcript for 'Community awards' film