Reading YMCA’s Mark Lemm is up for a Berkshire Football Award in the category of Volunteer of the Season sponsored by Shorts Group.
The nomination we received for the award said: “Mark is the ultimate football volunteer that any grassroots club needs. He is dedicated and passionate about the club. He gives his time and in the past his money to keep the club running. As a player he is our second all-time appearance maker with 600 appearances, he has managed both firsts and reserves successfully. As chairman of the club, he has raised thousands for projects, this year successfully raising sufficient cash to build our own bore hole which will allow us to have year-round irrigation. He has set up our bar The Cornerflag which generates precious income and his partner Rowan manages it. He also represents the club on the Padworth Village Hall Council giving back to the community. He is the first to volunteer to assist the referee last year winning club official of the year as voted by the TVPL referees. He’s also the last to leave after ensuring everything is cleared and ready for the next game. Quite simply YM wouldn’t exist without him.”
Agree that Mark should be up for the Volunteer award? Or do you have someone else in mind? Let us know in the nomination form below:
Berkshire Football Awards news
Nominations open in:
- Match Day Experience
- Supporter of the Season
- Grounds Team of the Season
- Clive McNelly Volunteer of the Season
- Best Photographer
- Goal of the Season
- Best Website
- Best Content Creator
- Best Individual Event of the Season
- Football Writer of the Season
- Physio of the Season
- Manager of the Season (Women’s Game)
- Manager of the Season (Men’s Game)
- Referee of the Season
- Young Player of the Season (Female)
- Young Player of the Season (Male)
- Player of the Season (Female)
- Player of the Season (Male)
- The Darrell Freeland Award for Service to the Local Game
Yes! The awards are taking place at the marvellous Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading and we’ll have food available. Tickets will be limited but on sale from 28th May. If you’d like to know when, so you don’t miss out, make sure you’ve signed up to our email newsletter here.
Scroll down to the bottom of this article for the nomination form. Before you do that though, here’s what the judging panel are looking for when choosing the shortlist.
What’s the story? Tell us exactly why the person or place should be considered. We hate to get all ‘X Factor journey’ on you but the more detail you can include, the better we can argue for your nominee for the short list.
The sort of details we love to see include things like player awards, goals, clean sheets and any other significant contributions to the footballing community – obviously within the 2024/25 season.
We’ll publish all the nominees for the Berkshire Football Awards as we receive them.
You can view all the 2025 nominees so far here.
Want to know who’s previously won what at the Berkshire Football Awards? There’s a big long page with all the previous winners here.
Nominations will be open until midday on Monday 26th May 2025.
The Long List will be published on Wednesday 28th May and the Short List on Friday 30th May.
Once the nomination window has closed, the nominations in each category will be put before a panel of judges for a decision, the top four announced online and the winners at the awards night on Wednesday 18th June.
We will accept nominations for people out of area, the only prerequisite is that the reason for nomination is that it must be because of an affiliation with a club we cover on Football in Berkshire (a full list is at the bottom of this page). We will present certificates and a trophy to the winners.
- All nominations are done by you, the Berkshire footballing public
- You can nominate as many people as you like for each award – the quantity of nominations counts for the judging panel..
- That said, quality is just as important, the more detail you provide about why you are nominating, the better
- Please try and avoid nominating your own family members
- Due to difficulties in obtaining permissions under child protection laws we won’t consider any player under the age of 16 for nomination in any of the categories
Nomination Form
Nominations for the 2025 Berkshire Football Awards are now closed!
What’s next? Look out for the Long List of all the nominations which will be published here and across all our channels by midday on Wednesday 28th May 2025.
The Short List for each category will then be published at 2pm on Friday 30th May 2025. At that point, tickets will be made available to attend the awards night at Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading on the evening of Wednesday 18th June 2025. If you’d like notification of when tickets are available, sign up to our newsletter here.
