Welcome to our Winners at this years Welsh Veterans Awards 2025!

Massive thanks to everyone who attended this year’s Welsh Veterans Awards hosted by Polly James and held at the 4* Vale Resort. The Awards were sponsored by our lead sponsor  Vindico and our Group UK sponsor Thales UK who support all our awards across the UK. Our awards are in Support of The Army Benevolent Fund and Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity It was such a fantastic event with a great atmosphere in the room in what was our largest Welsh Veterans Awards to date on our sixth year anniversary!

Well done to everyone who was shortlisted as finalists, we had a huge amount of applications and the shortlisting process was extremely difficult. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who put forward nominations, you are all doing amazing things in your relevant fields and you should be so proud of your achievements!

Extremely thankful and very honoured to have in attendance and hear from, Commodore Kirkwood OBE,  Air Commodore Rob Woods OBE, and Regional Director of the ABF Charity Pete Davies.

A special thanks also has to go to the Corps of drums of the Royal Welsh the Welsh Guards who were there supporting in their famous red Tunics and Royal Navy Personnel.

We are so thankful to all our supporters, volunteers and sponsors who helped put this amazing night together!

Some of the highlights of the night saw Gordon ‘Pop’ White a World War 2 D day Veteran receive the Lifetime Achievement Award to a standing ovation and also Paul Bromwell MBE become our  Inspiration of the year winner and our  Welsh Veterans Awards Champion.

We want to Inspire our future service leavers that great things can happen. It’s you who will act as role models and in some cases mentors, remember Positivity breeds Positivity.

 

Our Winners are :

 

Veterans Awards Champion: Paul Bromwell MBE

 

Role Model of the Year- Sponsored by Forces Employment Charity

Gold: Daisy Coleman

Silver: Gareth Jones

Bronze: Lloyd Allen

Bronze: Owen Dobson

 

Inspiration of the Year Award – Sponsored by Porters Estate Agents

Gold: Paul Bromwell

Silver: Helen Neve

Bronze: Emyr Owen

The Community Awards – Sponsored by Vigilance

Gold: Ian Reynolds

Silver: David Williams

Bronze: Melvin Watts

 

Military Charity Fundraiser of the Year – Sponsored by Print Inc

Gold: David Williams

Silver: Nigel Locke

Bronze: Marc Del-Valle

 

Health & Well-being Award  – Sponsored by  Audi Sinclair

Gold: Mentribe CIC

Silver: Therapies4Services CIC

Bronze: Links Workshop

 

Veterans Group of the year (5yrs+ Old) – Sponsored by Army Benevolent Fund 

 

Gold: Valley Veterans

Silver: Bulldogs BCA

Bronze: The Royal Welsh Comrades Association Aberdare

 

Veterans Group of the year (1 – 5yrs old) – Sponsored by Vindico

Gold: Swansea Veterans Hub

Silver: Mentribe CIC

Silver: Caerphilly Veterans Support Hub

Bronze: Blaenau Gwent Veterans

Leader of the Year Award  – Sponsored by NAFESE

Gold: Marc Del-Valle

Silver: Jamie Ryan

Bronze: Oliver Williams

 

Entrepreneur of the Year- Sponsored by Pinnacle Document Solutions Group

Gold: Oliver Williams

Silver: Daniel Edmunds

Bronze: Emma Eynon

 

Employer of the Year- Sponsored by Sponsored by Veterans Trees

Gold: Alabare

Silver: Kier

Bronze: Espanardo Ltd

Bronze: Excel Civil Enforcement Limited

 

Veteran Owned Business  of the Year- Sponsored by Educ8 Training

Gold: Sudocyber Limited

Silver: Fantom Factory LTD

Bronze: Zero Alpha Fitness LTD

 

Volunteer of the Year –  Sponsored by Thales Group 

Gold: David Rook

Silver: John Hoper

Bronze: Dai Francis

Bronze: David King

 

Lifetime Achievement – Sponsored by Hugh James

Gold: Gordon White

Silver: Ivor Gittens

Bronze: Melvin Watts

 

Reservist of the Year Award –  Sponsored by Sierra Nevada Corporation Mission Systems UK

Gold: David Hawkins

Silver: Dion Richards

Bronze: Nick Howells

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our Shortlisted Finalists, remember its you who inspire our future service leavers – Keep an eye out on Facebook and our social media sites for pictures and videos of the evening coming soon!