More than 40 charities, volunteers and trustees have been selected as the finalists for a prestigious award.

This year’s Kent Charity Awards will showcase the hard work of charities and individuals all over the county.

More than 70 charities entered the awards and judges were given the task of whittling this down to a handful of finalists.

The finalists will be invited to an awards ceremony on Thursday, September 5 at the Corn Exchange in Rochester where the winners will be announced.

You can find the full list of this year’s finalists below:

Care Charity of the Year

Dover Smart Project

Demelza

Kenward Trust

Sateda

Best Use of Volunteers Charity of the Year

Bright Shadow

Nourish Food Bank

Kent Wildlife Rescue Services

Mental Health Charity of the Year

West Kent Mind

Emerge Advocacy

The Young Lives Foundation

Disability Charity of the Year

Aspens

Disability Assist for Independent Living

Kent Association for the Blind

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support

Children’s Charity of the Year

We are Beams

St George’s Community Children’s Project

Canterbury and District Early Years Project

Pegasus Playscheme

Large Charity of the Year

AMAT

The Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust

Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex

Porchlight

Community Charity of the Year

21 Together

Emmaus Dover

Halpern Charitable Foundation / Nucleus Arts

Thanet Community Development Trust

Animal and Environment Charity of the Year

Kent Wildlife Trust

Communigrow

The Big Cat Sanctuary

RSPCA Canterbury and District

Start-Up Charity of the Year

Keep Talking Services

The Veterans Association

Special Judges’ Award

FASD Awareness

Volunteer of the Year

Alison Wilson of East Kent Rape Crisis Centre

Mick Lowrey of Young Lives Foundation

Bryon Luckhurst of Crossroads Young Carers

Rob Smith of Kent Wildlife Trust

Trustee of the Year

Samuel Barton of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support Services

Ian Colbridge of Aspens

Stephen Field of KASBAH

Janet Garnons-Williams of Sateda

The Kent Charity Awards are kindly sponsored by Kreston Reeves, AMEY, Brachers, CAF Bank, Kent Community Foundation, Medway Council, Financial Advice and Services and the KM Media Group.