Berks County volunteer Steve Kay nominated for a Berkshire Football Award in the category of Volunteer of the Season. Nominations are open until Monday 27th May 2024
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Berks County’s Steve Kay is up for a Berkshire Football Award in the category of Volunteer of the Season.
Kay is on for a hat-trick in this category having won it twice before in 2018 and 2020.
The nomination we received for the award said: “Steve is Mr Berks County. Be it our youth teams or adult sides he is always there to help and do his best for everyone. If he isn’t doing all of the clubs admin he’s cutting the pitches for our junior sides to play on. On any given Saturday he’s seemingly in three places at once at times all for the benefit of the club. Not only that he is our Thames Valley Premier League development side manager too bringing through talented young adults giving them the platform to go on to play for the first team. Without Steve we have no club. Simple as that.”
Another said: “Steve Kay does everything for Berks County FC that spans across multiple teams and ages. Constantly giving up his spare time to source kit, admin, get matches, referees, put on training/coaching sessions and manage one of the teams, he truly does it all.”
Another simply said: “He really is a fantastic guy. Works hard, dedicated and deserves the recognition after such commitment to the club.”
Agree that Steve Kay should be up for the Volunteer of the Season award? Or do you have someone else in mind? Let us know in the nomination form below:
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 18th 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 2025/26 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.6
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 midnight on Sunday 10th May 2026.
The Long List will be published on Friday 15th May and the Short List on Monday 18th May at midday.
Once the nomination window has closed, the nominations in each category will be put before a panel of over 20 judges for a decision, the top four announced online and the winners at the awards night on Wednesday 10th 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.
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 Friday 15th May 2026.
The Short List for each category will then be published at midday on Monday 18th May 2026. At that point, tickets will be made available to attend the awards night at Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading on the evening of Wednesday 10th June 2026. If you’d like notification of when tickets are available, sign up to our newsletter here.
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