The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
Equivalent to an MBE, QAVS are the highest awards given to local voluntary groups in the UK, and they are awarded for life. Little Hiccups are highly honoured to be chosen for this Award.
National Diversity Awards Finalist 2025
The UK’s most prestigious diversity event celebrates the excellent achievements of grass-root communities that tackle the issues in today’s society, providing them with recognition for their dedication and hard work.
Little Hiccups has been shortlisted for the Community Organisation: Age Award in this year’s National Diversity Awards in association with HSBC UK. It’s a huge achievement to reach this stage as from over 85,000 nominees, 125 finalists in 10 categories have been named in recognition of their dedication to advancing equality, diversity and inclusion.
Registered with the Fundraising Regulator
We are the independent regulator of charitable fundraising in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We stand up for best practice in fundraising, in order to protect donors and support the vital work of fundraisers.
We work in partnership with other regulators and representative bodies in the charitable and fundraising sectors to build public confidence and ensure consistent fundraising standards across the UK.
Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Pledge
Little Hiccups is delighted to support the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower! This means that people with a non visible disability can choose to wear a Sunflower to make their disability visible to those around them while in Little Hiccups. We will help you with any support or adjustments you may need.
Find out more about the Sunflower at hiddendisabilitiesstore.com.
Charity Excellence Framework Quality Mark
A charity digital mentor, that enables us to assess our trustee governance and any area of management.
The quality mark provides demonstrable evidence to stakeholders and funders, of our commitment to excellence, reassurance for trustees that your charity is well run and recognition for staff and volunteers for what they are achieving.
Communication Accessible Award
Communication Access UK is an initiative developed in partnership by charities and organisations that share a vision to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties.
Compassionate City Awards 2021
Winner in ‘Community Organisation or Project of the Year’
The Leeds Compassionate City Awards celebrate the positive work that individuals, community groups and organisations do every day to make their local communities and our city a great place to live, work, and visit.
Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2020
Winner in ‘Best Place in Leeds for Children and Young People’
The winners of the seventh Child Friendly Leeds awards were announced at a star-studded ‘Space’ themed ceremony at Leeds City Varieties on Thursday 6 February 2020.
The awards showcased the diverse talent, significant achievements and energy of the city’s children and young people, as well as highlighting and celebrating those people, places and organisations that are dedicated to making Leeds a child friendly city.
The ceremony was attended by an audience of 400 people including the Lord Mayor of Leeds, City Leaders and VIP guests.
A significant number of nominations were received across the city for inspiring young people, child friendly places, people who go the extra mile and fantastic organisations and community groups, with the winners announced at the special event.
Child Friendly Leeds
Our ambition is to be the best city for children and young people to grow up in. This is a crucial element of the council’s work to become the best city in the UK by 2030. There are 187,000 children and young people in Leeds, and the council works with partners across Leeds to put children and young people at the heart of our collective thinking, planning and action. Little Hiccups is one of those partners.
Child Friendly Leeds (CFL) was launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in 2012 and is the thread that brings together all the work we do to create better outcomes for all children and young people. We ask everyone to work together to take action in their school, community, business or organisation to make Leeds a child friendly city.
Our commitment to being the best city for children and young people is founded on the global movement of Child Friendly Cities initiated by UNICEF, and guided by the voices of children and young people here in Leeds.
