FPA and Brook hosted the UK Sexual Health Awards every March from 2012–2015 to celebrate outstanding work in sexual health.
After four fabulous years, and hundreds of amazing and inspiring people and projects, we decided to take a break in 2016.
FPA is running the Rosemary Goodchild Award for journalism and the Pamela Sheridan Award for sex and relationships education.
Entries for 2016 are now closed. A huge thank you to everyone to made a nomination. The shortlists will be announced soon with winners announced in September.
The 2015 winners
The UK Sexual Health Awards 2015 took place on on Friday 6 March 2015 with a glittering awards dinner and ceremony, hosted by Dr Phil Hammond.
Huge congratulations to all the winners!
Have a look at the Storify page and Flickr photos from the 2015 ceremony.
Sexual health professional of the year
Dawn Purvis, Director, Marie Stopes Belfast, Marie Stopes UK
Young person of the year
Chlo Winfield, Speak Out Project
Highly commended
Claudia Carvell, Lesbian and Gay Foundation, Sexpression Manchester, freelance writer
Adult sexual health service/project of the year
The Rowan Sexual Health Clinic, Northern Health & Social Care Trust (NHSCT).
Young people's sexual health service/project of the year
3 in 1 Scheme, Leeds City Council.
Highly commended
- Buckinghamshire - Young People's Sexual Health Programme, Buckinghamshire County Council
The Pamela Sheridan Award – recognising pioneering approaches to relationships, sex and wellbeing education
The Prison RSE Project: Empowering Vulnerable Women, Spectrum Community Health CIC
More about the Pamela Sheridan Award
Sexual health media campaign/storyline of the year - two winners
10 Ways a Condom Can't Protect You, Sexual Health Sheffield & Diva Creative
Hollyoaks
Rosemary Goodchild award for excellence in journalism
Breaking the Taboo of Abortion on TV and Film by Gillian Orr, The Independent
Highly commended
- Men and Boys get Raped Too by Theo Merz, Daily Telegraph
- Let’s Talk about Sex: Teachers Back Call for Sex Education to be Compulsory by Jane Martinson, Education Guardian
More about the Rosemary Goodchild Award
Public Health England Sexual Health, Reproductive Health & HIV Award 2015: Best Practice in Whole System Commissioning
Joint whole system procurement of Sexual Health and HIV services in Norfolk using s75. Commissioned by: Norfolk County Council & NHS England - East Anglia Area Team
Parliamentarian of the year
Luciana Berger MP
Lifetime Achievement Award
Baroness May Blood
The finalists
Sexual health professional of the year
- Dawn Purvis, Director, Marie Stopes Belfast, Marie Stopes UK
- Dr Chris Wilkinson, President, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Dr Adaeze Ifezulike, NHS Grampian
- Dr Tuppy Owens, Outsiders Trust
- Dr Stephen Dawson, Consultant in GUM/HIV Medicine, Sexual Health Service, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Tamsin Meredith, Kent Community Health NHS Trust
Young person of the year
- Ellen Adams, Sexpression:UK
- Chlo Winfield, Speak Out Project
- Josh Hale
- Luke Alexander, Saving Lives
- Claudia Carvell, Sexpression Manchester, Freelance writer, Lesbian and Gay Foundation
- Hollie Hammond, Marie Stopes UK
Adult sexual health service/project of the year
- Faith and Communities Project, Terrence Higgins Trust
- A sexual health in-reach service for male prisoners in HM Prison Isle of Wight, provided by the Sexual Health Service, Isle of Wight NHS Trust
- Sexual Health Hounslow, West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Time to Test Berkshire, Thames Valley Positive Support
- North Lincolnshire Sexual Health, Virgin Care
- The Rowan Sexual Health Clinic, The Rowan, Northern Health & Social Care Trust (NHSCT)
Young people's sexual health service/project of the year
- Blackburn with Darwen Support Around Sexually Inappropriate Behaviour, Blackburn with Darwen Children's Services
- Buckinghamshire - Young People's Sexual Health Programme, Buckinghamshire County Council
- Greater Manchester Consortium Against Sexual Exploitation (GMCASE)
- Swansea People First
- Ur Decision, Warwickshire County Council
- 3 in 1 Scheme, Leeds City Council
The Pamela Sheridan Award - recognising pioneering approaches to relationships, sex and wellbeing education
- Shropshire Respect Yourself: Eat Better, Move More, RSE, Shropshire County Council
- Hot Dogs, UNTitled Theatre / ARC Stockton / The Everyday Sexism Project
- I Heart Consent, National Union of Students Women's Campaign & Sexpression UK
- The Prison RSE Project: Empowering Vulnerable Women, Spectrum Community Health CIC
- Kernow King's Sex Tape & Resource, Cornwall Health Promotion Service
- 'I'm The Girl I Want To Be', Golddigger Trust
- Girls, Gangs and Consequences session, Growing Against Gangs & Violence (GAGV)
Sexual health media campaign/storyline of the year
- Emmerdale
- Hollyoaks
- Eastenders
- Female Genital Mutilation – The Teenagers' Perspective, BBC Inside Out West Midlands
- 10 Ways a Condom Can't Protect You, Sexual Health Sheffield and diva creative
- Call for Same-Sex Sex and Relationships Education to be Statutory in all English Schools, Cliff Joannou (QX magazine)
Rosemary Goodchild award for excellence in journalism
- The Asexuals by Alix O'Neill, Marie Claire
- The Primary Headteacher Attacked For Trying To Tackle Homophobia by Rachel Williams, Education Guardian
- Ask An Adult: Is There A Medical Reason We Actually Need Chocolate When We’ve Got PMS? by Sophie Wilkinson, The Debrief
- Men And Boys Get Raped Too by Theo Merz, Daily Telegraph
- To Breed Or Not To Breed? One Woman’s Ambivalence About Having Children by Lindsay Frankel, Daily Telegraph
- Breaking The Taboo Of Abortion On TV And Film by Gillian Orr, The Independent
- Women Forced To Run Gauntlet Of Abortion Zealots by Fionola Meredith, Belfast Telegraph
- Let’s Talk About Sex: Teachers Back Call For Sex Education To Be Compulsory by Jane Martinson, Education Guardian
Public Health England Sexual Health, Reproductive Health & HIV Award 2015: Best Practice in Whole System Commissioning
- Tender for integrated contraception and sexual health service. Commissioned by: Jo Melvin, Commissioner - Public Health, Peterborough City Council
- Integration of Sexual Health Services for the county of Northamptonshire. Commissioned by: Dr Akeem Ali, Director of Public Health and Ms Lindsay Cox, Service Manager – PH and Well-Being, Northamptonshire County Council
- Cambridgeshire Integrated Sexual Health and Contraception Services. Commissioned by: Val Thomas – Consultant in Public Health. Cambridgeshire County Council
- Joint whole system procurement of Sexual Health and HIV services in Norfolk using s75. Commissioned by: Norfolk County Council and NHS England – East Anglia Area Team
- Plan sets out the forward plan for all sexual health and HIV screening services. Commissioned by: Blackpool's Health and Wellbeing Board Sexual Health and HIV action plan
