Each year at our Labour Appreciation Night event, United Way and our labour partners recognize outstanding volunteers within workplaces who contribute so much to United Way, and to their community.
Images of Hope recognizes the effort of an extraordinary individual from the labour community who has provided outstanding volunteer service to United Way and to the community. Considered a lifetime achievement, it recognizes an individual in good standing of a union who has demonstrated leadership and contributed to major change.
Sponsored by the London & District Labour Council and the London and District Building Trades Council, this award was established in 1999. Each year, United Way’s Labour Campaign Committee (a subcommittee of our Campaign Cabinet) is responsible for the collection of nominations and selection of the annual Images of Hope award recipient.
The Labour Appreciation Volunteer Awards recognize some of the most dedicated volunteers who help make United Way workplace campaigns so successful.
Award recipients are union members who have worked “in the trenches” for several years, raising funds for the United Way of London & Middlesex. They exemplify innovation and creativity, incorporate best practices of resource development and often leave a legacy by creating succession in their workplaces.
Each year, 10 to 12 recipients representing a broad base of unions and campaign accounts and divisions are selected by the Labour Campaign Committee, a subcommittee of United Way’s Campaign Cabinet, in partnership with the London & District Labour Council and the London and District Building Trades Council.