Winners and nominations 2025
Making it Happen: Best Business Partnership
- Brighter Sound and Sony Music
- Manchester City Football Club and The Hallé
- The Modernist Society with Fablr Ltd
- Skills Bootcamp - Winner
- Reform Radio and Partners
The Best Performance
- Dark Beautiful and Chaste
- Captains Leg Theatre Company
- Spaced Out
- The Edge Theatre
- Christmas Lights
- Z-arts
- LUCKY TONIGHT! - Winner
- Afreena Islam Wright
Champions of Equality and Social Justice
- Olympias Music Foundation
- Emerging Scholars
- Royal Exchange Theatre
- Afrocats - Winner
- RFK Human Rights
Bright Spark: Young Creative of the Year
- Tom Rabbani
- Callum Shallcross - Winner
- Emelia Hewitt
- Alfie Wright
Igniting Creativity: Culture, Education and Talent Development
- Music Evermore CIC
- Company Chameleon - Winner
- HOME from Home
- HOME Creative Engagement
- Everyday Art School
- The Whitworth
Our Planet: Acting on Climate Change
- Force of Nature
- CAN
- Belonging in Wild
- Manchester Museum, Venture Arts, Pinc College & Manchester Deaf Centre
- Olympias Recycled Orchestra - Winner
- Olympias Music Foundation
- The Future is Green
- Royal Northern College of Music
Excellence in Creative Health and Wellbeing
- Afrocats
- So Many Beauties - Winner
- Portraits of Recovery, Let's Talk About Chemsex
- Sing their Name Choir
- Dan McDwyer and Adel Owen
The Best Exhibition
- Holly Graham: The Warp/The Weft/The Wake
- Manchester Art Gallery
- Greater Mancunians
- The Manchester College
- Our Town Hall – Portraits of a Workforce
- Being Here - Barbara Walker - Winner
- The Whitworth
- Human Library
- Elizabeth Wewiora and residents from North Manchester
Independent Creative of the Year
- Sam Edwards
- Balraj Samrai
- Liam Hopkins
- Tina Ramos Ekongo - Winner
The Best Event
- Wythenshawe Live Night - Winner
- Brighter Sound, Music Evermore CIC, Manchester Libraries
- Ghosts at the Old Library
- Levenshume Old Library
- Manchester Histories Festival
- WOMEX 24
- Manchester Music City
- Re:Discover Festival
- Streetwise Opera
The Cultural Welcome Award
- Afrocats
- REELMCR - Winner
- Reform Radio
- Manchester Jewish Museum
- The Whitworth
- Z-Arts