THE Shared Values in Action Award, sponsored by Bradford For Everyone, recognises people who are doing activities which bring people together.

The selected finalists are: Bradford For Everyone ambassadors, Grub from the Hub and Sam Robinson.

The team of ambassadors at Bradford For Everyone hail from Haworth to Holmewood, have religious beliefs and faiths or none, they are people with and without disabilities, people of different ethnicities and different genders and sexualities.

In the past two years it has existed, the project has created safe spaces, worked in the voluntary and community sector to fund innovative projects and been the voice of Bradford in major conventions such as ‘The People’s Powerhouse’ and as part of the Stronger Communities Together Board. Ambassadors have been working online to help people identify and stop fake news and on the ground it has been working with the homeless, creating befriending programmes and set up recycling and litter-picking initiatives.

Responding to the news it has been shortlisted, a spokesperson for Bradford For Everyone said: “We live and breathe our Shared Values and want our home-county, Bradford, to be a safe and happy place for everyone.”

Grub From The Hub - led by Councillor Bev Mullaney, Morrisons’ Community Champion Lily Romani, Alex Dilger and a team of volunteers - takes place at Lower Grange Community Centre every Friday from 10am.

One person said: “The service has kept people going and restored faith in human kindness!”

Cllr Mullaney said: “We are honoured and privileged to work with such a great team. I feel privileged to work with a group of people who share the same values of humanity, that binds us together in and unites our diverse communities.”

Lily said she is “absolutely honoured” to be part of a team that has been shortlisted for the award. Alex added: “We aim to collectively work together to ensure that the aims, needs and values of our communities are being met.”

Sam Robinson is a part time support worker for Bradford People First Keighley and Craven and helps adults with learning difficulties.

In recent times, Sam helped the group present to Bradford Safeguarding Adults Board about real safeguarding issues that the board needs to address for citizens of Bradford. Her nominator said she gives people with learning difficulties a “voice”. Sam recently spoke out against hate crime on public transport at an event at Cottingley Corner Stone and two attending senior managers of West Yorkshire’s transport industry pledged to tackle the issue better.

One person said: “Sam is an inspiration, with the biggest heart, kind, caring and loving person who has our shared values at the heart of everything she does for people who really need it. It is a privilege to know Sam and if everyone in the world was like her, the world would be a perfect place.”

You can vote for your chosen finalist here.