Hall Of Fame 2021
Excellence Awards
Best Use of Social Media
Using TikTok to reach younger audiences
Citizens Advice
At Citizens Advice when we say we're here for everyone, we mean it - whoever they are, whatever their problem. But our latest brand research highlighted a barrier to this - those aged under 25 have very low awareness of us and don't know we're here for them. We started our TikTok account to try and address this. Half of active TikT...
Big Impact Award
End Child Food Poverty Coalition
Sustain, Food Foundation, School Food Matters, Bite Back 2030, Chefs in Schools, Soil Association, together convening a coalition of 25+ other organisations
In March 2020, schools across the UK closed as a result of Coronavirus, and approximately 1.4 million children normally receiving free school meals were put at risk of greater food insecurity, and school caterers were left with pre-ordered food stocks. The coalition of food organisations immediately convened an advocacy effort to secur...
Brand Development
Rewilding Britain rebrand
Rewilding Britain
Rewilding Britain is a young, pioneering charity that champions rewilding. Our vision is to see rewilding flourishing across Britain, re-connecting us with the natural world, rejuvenating communities and tackling the species extinction crisis and climate emergency. As David Attenborough says, “We are dependent on the natural world for ...
Breakthrough of the Year
JHF Community Outdoor Classroom
The Jack Hazeldine Foundation
The Jack Hazeldine Foundation (JHF) uses mentoring, tutoring and bespoke therapeutic provisions to inspire and empower young lives. We support vulnerable young people who either have special educational needs or disabilities, face exclusion from school or are at risk of criminal exploitation. The pandemic seriously impacted our abi...
Communications Agency of the Year
Forster Communications
Forster has worked for charities since our inception 25 years ago. When the pandemic hit and charities were facing a £10bn hole in their finances, we turned our focus to helping them and the communities and causes they serve. That included: • Taking on all the communications at 24 hrs notice for NHS Charities Together’s record-break...
Communications Campaign of the Year
Find The Right Words
STAMMA, the British Stammering Association
Over the last decade stammering has been the focus of the film ‘The King’s Speech’, the primetime documentary series ‘Educating Yorkshire’ as well as countless references in popular culture. In each of these instances, people who stammer are presented as being on 'a journey' towards fluency – to speaking and sounding like everyone else...
Best service delivery innovation
Nanny Biscuit 2020 Coronavirus Relief Effort
CAFgas CIC
Nanny Biscuit is a charitable arm of Cafgas CIC that was set up to help local people build a brighter future by inspiring and engaging the community. Its aim was to promote and inspire good mental and physical health, and reduce loneliness and isolation. When the impact of Covid-19 was first realised, the core team of Nanny Biscuit vol...
Digital Innovation of the Year
HerVenture for Women Entrepreneurs
Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
HerVenture (HV), the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s free mobile learning app for women entrepreneurs was piloted in 2018/19 in Nigeria, Indonesia and Vietnam. The App provides women owners of micro and small businesses with the knowledge and skills to successfully grow their enterprises. As HV can be accessed on-the-go, women e...
Enterprise Award
EACH Retail
East Anglia's Children's Hospices
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) supports families and cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. We rely on donations for the majority of our income and need to raise £5.5 million from fundraising and £5.4 million from our shops every year. Our thrivi...
Fundraising Campaign
Urgent Assistance Fund
Aberlour Children's Charity
In March 2020 Aberlour responded to the Coronavirus and lockdown by embarking on a major fundraising campaign to enable our Urgent Assistance Fund to support families in Scotland plunged into financial crisis. Aberlour subsequently raised more than £1 million to provide essentials to over 3,000 families affected by unemployment, reduce...
Marketing Campaign of the Year
The Girl Who Built a Rocket
WaterAid
Despite being the fourth biggest island in the world, almost half of Madagascans have no clean water. WaterAid’s communication objective was to tell the story of the yet-to-be-realised potential of the community in Madagascar, and the barriers blocking it, in a way that would drive increased consideration. Our campaign put water ...
Small Charity, Big Achiever
Project Parity
The Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes
Over the last couple of decades, the traditional emergency services have come under pressure to achieve financial and operational targets within their core competency. Moving urgent medical packages is not considered a key performance measure in that landscape. With a drive towards fewer local test laboratories, in favour of larger, mo...
Partnership Awards
Charity Partnership of the Year
Breakfast Boxes
School Food Matters, Impact on Urban Health, Chefs in Schools
School Food Matters, Impact on Urban Health and Chefs in Schools are not food aid charities. But when the pandemic hit and schools were forced to close, the three partners recognised that they could make a difference to families experiencing financial crisis and food insecurity. Together they devised the Breakfast Boxes programme, prov...
Corporate Partnership of the Year
Fujitsu and Autistica Partnership
Autistica and Fujitsu
In 2018 Fujitsu chose Autistica as their first small charity partner. Little did we know that this partnership would take us through one of the most unprecedented times in recent history. In the first two years of the partnership, we reached an amazing £755,020, with £150,000 of staff fundraising and over 4,000 hours of time volunteere...
Talent Awards
Celebrity Charity Champion
Alison Steadman
Marie Curie
Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end-of-life charity, is delighted to nominate actress Alison Steadman OBE to be this year’s Celebrity Charity Champion. Alison began supporting Marie Curie after her beloved mother, Marjorie, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Marjorie was cared for by Marie Curie during the final years of her life,...
Charity Chair of the Year
Dr Hilary Cass OBE
Together for Short Lives
If one were to pen a portrait of the perfect chair, Dr Hilary Cass would be it. Enormously bright, insightful, passionate, accessible, and open to challenge, with an abundance of humility, bottomless patience and a fabulous sense of humour. Hilary is not one to court the spotlight – indeed, she would be mortified by this introductory p...
Frontline team of the year
Erim Metto
Turkish Cypriot Community Association
COVID-19 has cause unprecedented devastation to the social fabric of our world. Its effects touched the lives of every single individual in particular the vulnerable. Turkish Cypriot Community Association (TCCA), the largest Turkish Speaking charity in the UK, has been serving the needs of elderly, frail, and those with needs since ...
Digital Champion of The Year
Hannah Mudge
The Leprosy Mission
2020 was the most challenging year the charity sector has ever faced. The economy dived, affecting all channels of fundraising. International charities were losing money fast, and smaller ones were closing. It was a year that demanded agile, dynamic, and innovative fundraising, not just to retain existing supporters, but also for acqui...
Finance Team of the Year
NatWest Social & Community Capital
NatWest Social & Community Capital offers lending to social enterprises and community businesses who are unable to access mainstream finance. The past year has been challenging and disruptive in so many ways and the work of these purpose-led organisations has never been so significant. In this environment the S&CC team have stepped in,...
Fundraising Team of the Year
Age UK | Fundraising Team
Amidst a global pandemic, The Age UK Fundraising Team delivered Age UK’s single most successful year of fundraising, raising £74.83M against a budget target of £57.6M; ultimately delivering an extra £17M in the most challenging working year of their collective lifetimes. This was against the backdrop of Age UK losing hundreds of thousa...
Rising Chief Executive
Steve Smith
Havens Hospices
Steve Smith has transformed a local hospice charity into an innovative, collaborative and diverse healthcare provider, delivering more care to more people in less than two years. By focusing on an inclusive culture and investing in data and technology, Havens Hospices has weathered a huge amount of change since 2019 and is still thr...
Rising Star
Christina Adane
Bite Back 2030
Christina Adane leads Bite Back 2030's Youth Board with a wisdom and maturity well beyond her 17 years. She has campaigned tirelessly for food equality and for changes to the system that will mean all young people have the option of healthy nutritious meals, everyday. She began the campaign to see Free School Meal support extended thro...
Unsung Hero
Jennifer Drewer
Phab Life
In 1991, Jenny started volunteering. She was 14 years old and has volunteered ever since! For thirty years, Jenny dedicated time, passion, and energy challenging inequalities experienced by people with additional needs, particularly learning disabilities. She has been determined to make a difference and a difference she has made, to ma...
Volunteer of the Year
Lin Vong
Ignite Hubs
In January 2019, Lin started an after-school coding club for children despite not having a technical background. During the pandemic, despite the many challenges in her own life, she worked tirelessly to lead the successful transition from in-person sessions to virtual sessions and we have embraced this new virtual way of volunteering ...
Volunteer Team of the Year
The Bread and Butter Thing
TBBT is having a transformative effect on people’s lives and on deprived communities across the north of England – but we simply wouldn't exist without our volunteers. Representing over 90% of our workforce, they provide critical support to our warehouse teams and are fundamental to the TBBT operation, whether sorting and packing stock...
Communications Team of the Year
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity
As demand for emergency pre-hospital care did not falter during the pandemic, the team at Midlands Air Ambulance Charity knew the importance of proactively communicating the importance of its lifesaving work and constant need for fundraising income from the communities it serves. As face-to-face fundraising had to cease, events can...