Excellence Awards
Best Small Charity Film
Give the Music Back
Music for Dementia and The Utley Foundation
Give the Music Back was never intended to be just another dementia awareness film. Created by Music for Dementia, an initiative powered by The Utley Foundation, the film set out to challenge traditional narratives around dementia by moving beyond loss and decline to highlight moments of joy, comfort and connection. Dementia is deeply p...
Misunderstood
AML Group
Tourette’s is one of the world’s most misunderstood neurological conditions. People tend to think of it as ‘the swearing thing’. But it is a whole lot more. Those with the condition are just as misunderstood - seen often as rude, annoying, or someone to be avoided. Far from the truth. So we took the Nina Simone track, Misunderstood...
Race Relations Act, 60th Anniversary
Black Equity Organisation
The 1965 Race Relations Act was the first law to make racial discrimination illegal in public spaces — a historic turning point in Britain’s journey towards racial equality. But as our short film makes clear, while laws have evolved, the lived reality for many Black Britons remains marked by inequality, bias, and systemic injustice. T...
The Fatal Question
StreetDoctors
Young people across the UK have voiced growing fear about rising violence, describing feeling unsafe, powerless and anxious in their own communities. In response, StreetDoctors partnered with Saatchi & Saatchi to create The Fatal Question, a campaign designed to dismantle the dangerous myth that someone can be stabbed without causing s...
Best Medium Charity Film
Cissy's story
Rays of Sunshine
We sat down with Cissy about her story who had her wish granted to meet Joe McElderry, the singer who had brightened up her life while in hospital for her heart transplant, and went on to be supported by Rays of Sunshine throughout her journey
End the Horror
I Choose Freedom
End the Horror was released by I Choose Freedom in the lead up to Halloween to highlight the real life horrors faced by thousands of women behind closed doors, to raise vital awareness of domestic abuse. The film was inspired by the insight from the charity that there is no horror film that compares to what women living in fear of the...
Hidden Homelessness
Basis Yorkshire
46% of homeless women surveyed reported walking all night in a 3-month period*. Homelessness is often seen as solely sleeping on the streets, but at Basis Yorkshire, we know many homeless women in Leeds are hidden in plain sight. For World Homelessness Day 2025 and for our Big Give fundraising campaign, we published our Hidden Homeless...
We are Arthritis UK
Arthritis UK
In the UK alone, more than 10 million adults, young people and children live with arthritis. What’s more, many others live with arthritis but remain undiagnosed, untreated and unsupported. This must change. That’s why at Arthritis UK, we invest in life-changing research into better treatments, campaign on issues affecting people wit...
Best Large Charity Film
Every Moment Matters
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Last Christmas, many seriously ill children at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) were too unwell to go home. We needed to raise vital funds to help give them the best childhood possible. To inspire support, we invited audiences inside GOSH at Christmas, capturing unscripted moments with real patients and families. Filming inside an ...
Home is Where the Hurt is
Refuge
We’re often taught to fear the stranger on the street, but the reality is that for many women home is the most dangerous place (UN, 2024). With one in four women experiencing domestic abuse in their lifetime, this is a national emergency that needs immediate action. 'Home is Where the Hurt is' is a powerful short film created by Ref...
I Know
Medical Aid for Palestinians and Don't Panic
After two years of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, public shock was giving way to compassion fatigue, with repeated imagery fostering fatalism and inaction. Medical Aid for Palestinians set out to reignite belief in the future of the Palestinian people by reframing the narrative — not as one of passive victimhood, but of resilience, agenc...
We're the 2026 TCS London Marathon Charity of the Year'
Marie Curie and London Marathon Events
The ‘We’re the 2026 TCS London Marathon Charity of the Year’ film was created as a defining launch moment for Marie Curie. Designed to drive runner recruitment and broaden awareness of the charity’s mission. Released ahead of April 2026, the film introduced Marie Curie to new audiences, clearly communicating our role as the UK’s leadin...
We’re Breast Cancer Now. Until We’re Breast Cancer Never
Breast Cancer Now
How does a breast cancer charity cut through when only a third of the UK knows it exists, in a category crowded with pink ribbons and stereotypes? Breast Cancer Now needed to reintroduce itself to the nation. To achieve our vision that, by 2050, everyone with breast cancer will live and live well, we need people to understand who we a...
With MND, Every Day Matters'
MND Association and lukecharles
With MND, Every Day Matters is the brand launch film for the MND Association — and its most important creative work in over a decade.The film follows Rob, who lives with MND, and his family. Through a combination of community-contributed footage and professionally filmed moments woven throughout, it charts an honest portrait of life wi...
Best Service Delivery Innovation
Admiral Nurse Dementia Clinics on the High Street
Dementia UK and Natiowide
Dementia UK, a national specialist nursing charity, has partnered with Nationwide Building Society, through their Social Impact strategy Fairer Futures, to respond to the urgent and growing need for specialist dementia support for families. One in two people will be affected by dementia in their lifetime, yet many families are left to ...
Fuel Your Finances
Family Action
As the cost-of-living crisis escalated, Family Action recognised that access to food alone was no longer enough. Families attending FOOD Clubs were increasingly unable to afford to cook, declining certain foods or requesting items that required little or no energy use. This revealed a hidden crisis: food poverty compounded by energy po...
Redefining Dementia Support: Clarity When it Matters Most
Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury Suffolk Memory and Dementia Support service (SSMDS), launched in April 2025, was created to bring clarity, reassurance and practical help to people facing the uncertainty of dementia. In Suffolk, where rates are higher than the national average, many individuals and families were left waiting up to 44 weeks for assessmen...
Sweet Chilli Parenting
Home-Start Central Lancashire
Sweet Chilli Parenting® was built on a simple but powerful belief: parents often need to understand themselves before they can fully understand their children. Developed by Home-Start Central Lancashire, Sweet Chilli Parenting® is an innovative trauma-informed parenting approach designed to address the growing gap between the challenge...
Best Use Of Social Media
#ThisIsMeNow
Breast Cancer Now
When Breast Cancer Now launched its bold new brand in March 2026, we didn't just want to announce a new look. We wanted to start a movement – involving the raw, honest and authentic experiences of people living with and beyond breast cancer in the UK right now. #ThisIsMeNow invited the breast cancer community to share a 'then' momen...
Gran Squad: How straight-talking Scottish Grans helped put social housing back on the political agenda
Shelter Scotland and 89up
Scotland is gripped by a housing emergency. Families are trapped in temporary accommodation. Rents are rising faster than wages. Thousands of people wait years for a social home that never comes. Yet despite the scale of the crisis, political ambition to build social housing had stalled. Shelter Scotland set out to change that. Our cam...
Remembering Op TELIC — 15 Years On
British Forces Broadcasting Service
In May 2026, BFBS, the media charity serving the UK Armed Forces community worldwide, marked the 15th anniversary of the last British personnel leaving Iraq with a week-long social media commemoration of Operation TELIC. Op TELIC is widely described by veterans as the forgotten conflict. Unlike the Falklands or Afghanistan, it receive...
The Arthur Tut: A movement to change the way the world sees arthritis
Arthritis UK
10 million people in the UK live with pain, fatigue and disability caused by arthritis. Despite its reach, it’s still a condition which is misunderstood and stigmatised affecting people’s ability to access treatment and support. One challenge is arthritis remains culturally defined as a condition of old age. Yet it can affect people ...
Big Impact Award
#TeamWater
WaterAid
In August 2025, WaterAid launched #TeamWater, a global campaign that redefined how digital culture and collective action can deliver rapid, large-scale social impact. Led in partnership with two of the world’s most influential creators, MrBeast and Mark Rober, the campaign united audiences, platforms and creators worldwide behind a sin...
Benedict's Law
Benedict Blythe Foundation
Following the death of five-year-old Benedict Blythe from an allergic reaction at school, the Benedict Blythe Foundation launched a campaign to improve allergy safety for children in education. What began as one family's determination to prevent another tragedy became a national movement that delivered the most significant improvement ...
Climate Just Communities (CJC) Rwanda
Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund
The Climate Just Communities (CJC) Rwanda programme empowered 64,000 marginalised people to lead climate action in rural Rwandan communities. With a goal of achieving big impact the project focused on helping everyone in the communities shape their own climate responses to flooding and landslides. The programme worked with the most ma...
Justice for women criminalised under historic abortion laws
British Pregnancy Advisory Service
BPAS led the campaign that secured a historic parliamentary vote to pardon women criminalised under abortion laws dating back to 1861 and expunge records relating to investigations, arrests and charges. Following the successful campaign to decriminalise abortion for women and girls, BPAS sought to ensure that those already harmed by h...
Project Giving Back
Project Giving Back
Project Giving Back (PGB) is a pioneering grant-making charity that has redefined how creative philanthropy can deliver impact. By funding show gardens for charities at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, PGB uses gardens as a powerful tool for awareness, engagement and long-term support. Funded by two private philanthropists, PGB has support...
The Fatal Question Campaign
StreetDoctors
Young people across the UK have voiced growing fear about rising violence, describing feeling unsafe, powerless and anxious in their own communities. In response, StreetDoctors partnered with Saatchi & Saatchi to create The Fatal Question, a campaign designed to dismantle the dangerous myth that someone can be stabbed without causing s...
Tough to Talk: Preventing Male Suicide Through Early Intervention and Cultural Change
Tough to Talk
Tough to Talk is transforming how the UK addresses male suicide by shifting the focus from crisis response to early intervention and upline support. Working directly within male-centric environments such as construction, governing bodies, sport and police forces, where men are least likely to seek help, we embed prevention into these e...
Brand Development
Arthritis UK Brand Evolution Project
Arthritis UK
In October 2025, our charity delivered a comprehensive rebrand taking us from Versus Arthritis to Arthritis UK – an endeavour spanning name, visual identity, tone-of-voice, messaging, photography, illustration and other assets including our entire digital estate. This major programme of work was informed and guided at all stages by r...
Every Deaf Child, Any Level of Hearing Loss
National Deaf Children's Society
The National Deaf Children’s Society supports children with any level or type of hearing loss. But we weren’t reaching enough families, particularly those with mild or single-sided deafness. We set out to create a brand identity with a strong message about who we’re here for. Our goal was to connect with families who were missing ou...
From The Actors’ Benevolent Fund to Actors’ Trust: A Brand Transformation Story
Actors' Trust
This entry showcases the brand transformation of The Actors’ Benevolent Fund to Actors’ Trust – a 144-year-old charity supporting actors and stage managers across the UK. After decades with an outdated identity, low awareness (over half of respondents hadn’t heard of the charity), and a confusing name, the charity needed a bold new bra...
Futures For All: The Power of Purpose
Futures For AlL
Building on a 15-year history of inspiring students through talks, Speakers for Schools has been on a journey to change outcomes for young people through work experience. But from the name, you’d never know it. How could we better represent our services and purpose? How could we evolve our name while retaining our history? How could...
Rebranding a 102-year-old charity for global impact
Working Animals International
During our centenary in 2023, we launched an organisational strategy with a clear commitment: by 2027 we would build a brand capable of engaging new audiences and strengthening support for working animals worldwide. We’d recognised that our name SPANA (Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad) was limiting our impact. People were ...
Reimagining Sands: Building a brand as compassionate and strong as the community it serves.
Sands and BrandDufour
Sands partnered with The Team to evolve our brand so it better reflects who we are today and supports our ambition to save more babies’ lives while improving care for bereaved families. As a charity shaped by deeply personal experiences of pregnancy and baby loss, it was essential that this work was grounded in empathy, inclusion, and ...
Transforming the UK's Leading Breast Cancer Charity Brand
Breast Cancer Now
Breast Cancer Now is combining the power of science and support to change breast cancer, now. With a bold new strategy launched in late 2025 – aimed at doubling research spend, transforming the way we deliver support and targeting £100 million income by 2030 – we needed a brand equal to that ambition. With nearly one million people l...
Breakthrough Of The Year
Developing in the Dark
Helplines Partnership
Developing in the Dark – illuminating stories of support is an analogue portrait photography campaign and exhibition created for Helplines Awareness Day 2026 to raise awareness of the helpline charity sector and reduce stigma around seeking support. Delivered by Helplines Partnership in collaboration with photographer Rachel Brewster-W...
Lifelites 25
Lifelites
Lifelites 25 is a sector-defining innovation that transforms how assistive technology reaches children with life-limiting conditions. For 25 years, Lifelites has delivered specialist technology through children’s hospices. However, the majority of the UK’s 100,000 children with life-limiting conditions do not access hospice support, le...
Macmillan Open House
Macmillan Cancer Support
Cancer care is not equal. For many people in Black and South Asian communities, cancer is surrounded by silence, stigma, and a deep-rooted mistrust of health institutions. Macmillan Cancer Support needed a new way to reach and build relevance with these communities, ensuring people would feel able to seek vital support when they needed...
Making Fashion Accessible: A Global Vision
Hair & Care
In May 2026, Hair & Care CIC featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Art exhibition in New York, for our work at London Fashion Week with designer Chet Lo. As one of the world's most important cultural institutions - welcoming nearly six million visitors a year - its recognition of our work marks a profound moment, not onl...
stem4 Clear Fear for Schools
stem4
Clear Fear for Schools (CFS) represents a breakthrough in how evidence-based anxiety support can reach young people in time and at scale. stem4's award-winning Clear Fear app has supported hundreds of thousands of young people globally. However, many students experiencing anxiety never actively seek digital support. CFS was developed t...
Communications Agency Of The Year
Challenge PMW
PMW Communications
PMW Communications, a full-service marketing agency, launched Challenge PMW to deliver lasting improvements for local charities, schools and community groups across Sussex. Inspired by the 1990s TV show Challenge Anneka, the initiative called on organisations to put forward renovation projects where hands-on support could make a genuin...
Delivering Communications That Matter
Barley Communications
Barley Communications is a certified B Corp communications consultancy specialising in the environment, sustainability and social impact. Its mission is communication that matters. The agency works with charities, NGOs and public bodies to translate complex evidence into clear, credible communications that inform debate, influence be...
Kindred
We believe in the power of communications to benefit people, society and planet. The third sector represents a third of our client base and 45% of our revenue, with our work over the past year supporting 12 charities to make change on issues ranging from mental health and child protection to education and biodiversity. Our approach co...
Record-breaking Fundraising
8Cats Digital Limited
8Cats Digital is a specialist digital marketing agency built for one purpose: record-breaking fundraising. Our mission is to raise £100 million for our clients' causes by 2035, and we are already £38 million of the way there. We manage over £3 million of paid media every year for the UK charity sector, and the strength of our work sho...
The Granifesto/World Sight Day
89up
89up was set up to help good people do great things. We understand that global change needs a holistic approach. That is why 89up is a fully integrated global communications agency delivering strategy, creative, PR, websites, advocacy, insights and mobilisation. Our insight-led approach builds award-winning campaigns that change behavi...
Communications Campaign Of The Year
Change Starts In The Changing Room
The Sweaty Betty Foundation, Fanclub PR and My Perfect Cousin
Every day, girls across the UK are opting out of sport, not because they don’t want to take part, but because of what happens before PE lessons even begin. Our research uncovered a hidden barrier: one in three secondary school girls skip PE because of the thought of using school changing rooms. Spaces designed without them were quietl...
Dementia Unseen
Alzheimers Research UK and Different Kettle
Dementia is the UK’s leading cause of death. Yet one in three people still live without a diagnosis – often waiting years for answers. Alzheimer’s Research UK and Different Kettle set out to change that. Together, we created ‘Dementia Unseen’: a campaign designed to turn delayed diagnosis from an accepted reality into a public and p...
Fight Fly-tipping Fortnight - #RubbishDeal
Keep Britain Tidy and Barley Communications
Fight Fly-tipping Fortnight was a national behaviour change campaign delivered by Keep Britain Tidy in partnership with Barley Communications to tackle one of the UK’s most visible environmental crimes. It ran nationally for two weeks in November 2025, creating a focused moment to drive awareness and action. The campaign addressed...
Home is Where the Hurt is
Refuge
For International Women’s Day 2026, Refuge launched Home is Where the Hurt is, a multi channel campaign designed to expose the hidden realities of domestic abuse in the home and mobilise public support to end it. Centred on the chilling statistic that home is the most dangerous place for a woman (UN, 2024), the campaign was anchored b...
Mirror Christmas Appeal 2025
Lifelites
Lifelites transforms childhoods for children with life-limiting conditions, using assistive technology to unlock experiences that would otherwise be impossible. To mark its 25th anniversary, Lifelites set out to achieve a step-change in national awareness, shifting from a largely under-recognised charity to a leading voice in children’...
“Think Before You Share” - How did a lemon prevent children from becoming victims of child sexual abuse?
Consider Creative Ltd
Teenagers are growing up in a world where sharing nudes has become normal - contributing to a horrific rise in child sexual abuse material online. That’s why the Internet Watch Foundation partnered with Consider for the second year, running a communications campaign to get teenagers, parents and educators talking about the issue, de-n...
Digital Innovation Of The Year
Clinical Trial Finder
Alzheimer's Society
The Alzheimer’s Society Clinical Trial Finder is a pioneering digital service tackling a stark inequity in dementia research. In 2024/25, just 173 people living with dementia in England were recruited to late-stage trials—9 times fewer than stroke and 25 times fewer than cancer. While public willingness is high, fewer than 3% participa...
Hyper-Personalisation at Scale
Muslim Charity
During Ramadan, when Muslims concentrate up to 90% of their annual giving into 30 days, our donors are flooded with hundreds of near-identical fundraising emails. To stand out and be remembered, Muslim Charity set out to give every supporter something genuinely different.For Ramadan 2026, working with our partner Giving Analytics and u...
Light the CALM Beacon to STAY: Minecraft world
Campaign Against Living Miserably
"In the peaks of CALM's Minecraft world, the vast 'Beacon to STAY' lies dormant — its energy tank has run dry... Only the CALM community has the power to replenish its energy and relight the Beacon... Will you play your part?" While traditional giving faces a brutal downturn (CAF 2025), digital creator-led fundraising has emerged as a...
Northpoint Navigator: Simplifying Access, Improving Outcomes
Northpoint
Northpoint Navigator is a transformational digital innovation that responds to one of the most urgent challenges facing children and young people’s mental health services: how to provide timely, equitable access during unprecedented demand, with finite budget and capacity. First delivered within Calderdale’s Open Minds partnership, wh...
The Big Build Adventure: Transforming a Capital Appeal into a Participatory Digital Experience
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity’s (GOSH Charity) Big Build Adventure redefined how digital innovation can transform a complex fundraising appeal into an engaging, participatory public experience. To support its largest-ever appeal (Build it. Beat it.) GOSH Charity needed to reach mass audiences while creating meaningful emotional ...
Toucan Cash
RNLI
RNLI identified a growing operational and sector-wide challenge surrounding the safe banking of cash donations as bank branches and Post Offices continued to close across the UK. Volunteers were increasingly travelling further distances to deposit charitable funds, often carrying or temporarily storing cash for extended periods, creati...
Marketing Campaign Of The Year
Break Free from the Feeling
23red
Break Free From The Feeling is a powerful, behaviour-changing campaign that helped redefine how gambling harm is understood – and, crucially, how people seek help. Developed for GamCare, the campaign tackled a critical challenge: a sustained decline in calls to the National Gambling Helpline, driven not by lack of need, but by shame,...
Change Happens Now
Breast Cancer Now
Breast cancer is far from a done deal. Nearly one million people in the UK are living with or beyond the disease. Whilst Breast Cancer Now is the UK’s leading breast cancer charity, combining research and support to tackle this, only a third of the UK know we exist. To achieve our vision that, by 2050, everyone with breast cancer wi...
Girlguiding Brings Back Its Iconic 90s Collection
Girlguiding
In 2025, Girlguiding set out to reconnect with adults who were Brownies or Guides in the 1990s - older millennials with an emotional attachment to an organisation that counts 1 in 3 women in the UK as members, but may not know about our refreshed, modern programme. The campaign focused on recreating the iconic 1990s Brownies and Guide...
HELP(2)
War Child UK
HELP(2) is a collaborative album project released via War Child Records on 6th March 2026 to engage music lovers globally in support of War Child's work delivering education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict. The album speaks to the urgency of the humanitarian situation globally today. ...
Mental Health Awareness Week 2026: Turning Awareness Into Action
Mental Health Foundation & 8Cats Digital
Mental Health Awareness Week is the Mental Health Foundation's flagship campaign. A 25-year-old national event and one of the biggest mental health awareness campaigns in the world. The 2026 theme was about taking Action. Not just raising awareness, but helping people take real steps for their own and others' mental health. The brief ...
The Beep
Electrical Safety First
Smoke alarms save lives, yet our annual consumer survey shows an alarming rate of the public failing to test their smoke alarms. Only 13% of those who have smoke alarms installed in their homes have tested them in the past month to ensure it was working. One in five (19%) admit to last testing them over a year ago, with some saying the...
Fundraising Campaign
Bring Someone's Future Back
Samaritans and Don't Panic
‘Bring someone’s future back’ is Samaritans’ 2025 Winter fundraising appeal. It increased donor numbers, gift values and net income - achieving over 37% uplift in ROI - with some channels substantially beating their income target. Success was achieved through a groundbreaking integrated campaign created by Don’t Panic. Communicating t...
Childhood Can’t Wait
Whizz Kidz
The Childhood Can’t Wait campaign was launched by Whizz Kidz in response to an unprecedented crisis that forced the charity to close its wheelchair waitlist for the first time in 35 years, leaving more than 1,000 children unable to access essential mobility equipment. With NHS budget pressures and rising equipment costs prolonging dela...
Life-Saving Moment Campaign
Médecins Sans Frontières and Crafted
The life-saving moment is now. That was the message that stopped people in their tracks. A message that was brought to life across a curated, integrated set of digital channels. A message that raised over £3.5million in digital donations. It was the heart of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF UK)’s winter campaign. The campaigns’ purpose w...
Santaland: Rewriting the Rules of Christmas Fundraising
Action for Children and The Kite Factory
Action for Children’s 2025 Secret Santa campaign became the charity’s most successful Christmas appeal to date, raising £2.75m including Gift Aid and delivering +25% year-on-year income growth in one of the toughest fundraising environments in recent years. Against a backdrop of rising living costs, donor fatigue and intense seasonal...
The Great Tommy Sleep Out
Royal British Veterans Enterprise
The Great Tommy Sleep Out 2026 is the flagship and most successful fundraising campaign led by Royal British Veterans Enterprise (RBVE), mobilising communities across the UK to raise vital funds for veterans facing homelessness. Fronted this year by SAS: Who Dares Wins Billy Billingham MBE, the campaign inspired more than 17,000 people...
The Tartan Trek
Scottish Action for Mental Health
The Tartan Trek was an extraordinary, record‑breaking fundraising challenge undertaken in aid of SAMH to shine a national spotlight on mental health. Over 100 days, Craig Ferguson walked more than 3,200 miles across the United States — the equivalent of 120 marathons — travelling from Los Angeles to Boston in time for Scotland’s openin...
Small Charity Of The Year
Bright Futures UK
Bright Futures UK is a fast-growing charity transforming the educational outcomes of young people with long-term illness. In 2025, we supported over 2,000 young people, more than tripling our reach from 600 in 2024, through personalised tutoring, mentoring, befriending and in-hospital programmes. We address a critical gap in provision...
Business Beats Cancer Edinburgh (BBCE)
"Powering progress and turning pain into purpose" Business Beats Cancer Edinburgh (BBCE) is a small, volunteer-led organisation with a big ambition: to bring the city's business community together to help beat cancer – turning the personal pain that drives so many of us into real, measurable progress. We are an arm of Cancer Research U...
DigitALL
The UK’s digital skills shortage costs the economy £63bn a year, and the young people best placed to close it are being left behind. Girls, ethnic minorities and students from low-income households remain significantly underrepresented in computing, while teachers lack the specialist training and confidence to change that. Meanwhile, T...
Experts by Experience Employment Initaitive
Experts by Experience Employment Initiative is a refugee-led organisation breaking down barriers to employment and leadership for refugees and migrants across the UK. Founded in 2022, our organisation combines direct employability support with organisational change work to create more inclusive recruitment practices across the charity ...
Grassroots Suicide Prevention
Grassroots Suicide Prevention (GSP) has experienced a year of significant growth and impact. Founded in 2006, GSP connects, educates, and campaigns to ensure no one faces a suicidal crisis alone. Over the past year, GSP has expanded the reach of its NHS-endorsed Stay Alive app, now approaching one million downloads. This has been acco...
Locate International
Locate International’s vision is simple but powerful: a world where no missing person or unidentified individual is forgotten, and where every family, police force and coroner has access to the support, expertise and partnerships needed to seek answers, dignity and resolution. Founded in 2019, Locate International is the only UK charit...
Park Yoga
Park Yoga delivers free community yoga sessions in nature every Sunday morning from May to September, improving physical health, mental wellbeing and social connection. Founded in 2017 in two Dorset parks, Park Yoga now operates across 74 UK venues, including its first Scottish location in 2026, representing 35% growth since 2025. Week...
Medium Charity Of The Year
Calan DVS
Over the past year, Calan DVS has demonstrated outstanding leadership, innovation and impact in supporting survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence across Wales. Founded in 2012 through the merger of Neath and Lliw Valley Women’s Aid, Calan continues to set a benchmark for inclusive, survivor-led services. The organisation deliv...
Faith in Families
Faith in Families has had an exceptional year of impact, growth and recognition, supporting children, families and individuals across Swansea Bay and increasingly across Wales. Rooted in communities for 27 years, we provide an award winning, impactful, community-led, highly respected ecosystem of practical and emotional support, helpin...
Fulham Reach Boat Club
Fulham Reach Boat Club (FRBC) is a London-based sport-for-good charity using rowing to tackle inequality, improve wellbeing, reduce reoffending, increase disability inclusion, and protect the River. In 2024/25, FRBC engaged nearly 2,000 participants across youth development, prison rehabilitation, accessible rowing, and environmental a...
Money Ready
Owen was sofa surfing before finding shelter in a hostel. Then a housing officer pointed him to a Money Ready programme, where he learnt how to budget, the difference between debit and credit, and practical ways to manage rent and bills. None of it had ever been explained to him before. He is just one of the 58,867 people Money Ready ...
Naomi and Jack's
Naomi and Jack’s demonstrated exceptional impact, innovation and growth over the past year. Guided by its 'Reach More, Do More' strategy, the charity expanded its services, supported more families and strengthened both environmental and income sustainability. Over 11 months, the charity delivered 400 admissions, supported over 650 fami...
Rotherham Hospice
Rotherham Hospice is the only adult hospice serving the people of Rotherham. In 2025/26, the Hospice delivered one of the strongest years in its history, receiving its first ever overall Outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission while growing services, income, community reach and public support. The Hospice supported 360 inp...
Large Charity Of The Year
Alzheimer's Society
Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer – one in three people born today will go on to develop the condition. Alzheimer’s Society exists to create a future where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by providing help for people living with dementia now, and hope for the future through research, innovation and our campaigning act...
Blood Cancer UK
Blood Cancer UK has delivered a strong and impactful performance in 2025/26, standing out in a challenging climate for the voluntary sector. While many charities have faced rising costs and income pressures, the organisation has maintained high levels of fundraising, with income on track to match the previous year’s £19.3 million. This...
Enable Leisure and Culture
Enable is a UK-registered not-for-profit organisation working in partnership with local authorities, charities, NHS bodies, and local organisations to deliver health and wellbeing, leisure, community services and major public events that significantly enrich people’s lives. Enable’s purpose is to strengthen communities in South Londo...
Islamic Relief UK
Founded in 1984, Islamic Relief UK exists to support millions of rightsholders across the world including in the UK, with a mixture of sustainable development and emergency aid. Islamic Relief UK’s objectives are to raise funds, transform lives in the UK through our incredible UK Programmes, use advocacy to influence key aud...
Magic Breakfast
In 2024/25, Magic Breakfast made a difference to more than 350,000 children and young people every school day, working in over 1,000 schools across England and Scotland: the largest year of impact in the charity’s history. We exist to champion and provide nourishing breakfasts that help children and young people learn and thrive, wo...
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Every day we’re here for people affected by Motor Neurone Disease. A diagnosis of MND brings home the preciousness of every day. So we do all we can to make every day count. We bring understanding and guidance. We deliver practical and financial support. We raise awareness and campaign for better care. We’re not just here for now – a...
Royal British Veterans Enterprise
Royal British Veterans Enterprise (RBVE) has supported people for more than 100 years. Our mission is to create jobs, provide homes and build communities that empower veterans and people with disabilities to thrive in life. RBVE’s model is simple but powerful: when someone has a stable home, a good job and a supportive community, they ...
Small Charity Big Achiever
A Year of Impact for LGBTQ+ young people in Hampshire and the IOW
Breakout Youth
Breakout Youth support young people (YP) in Hampshire and IOW aged 11-25 and identify as LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender) or YP questioning their sexual and/or gender identity. Our aim is to improve marginalised LGBTQ+ YP’s emotional and mental wellbeing and engagement in their local communities, overcome challenges and...
Connecting Digital Skills to Real-World Climate Challenges
DigitALL
Digit makes coding physical, creative and purposeful for children in underrepresented communities, connecting digital skills to real-world climate challenges. Students build energy monitors, flood sensors and wildlife trackers, gaining the confidence and skills to see themselves in tech and environmental careers. In the last twelve m...
Igniting Digitalised Community-led Education
EduSpots
Founded in response to a locked community library over a decade ago, EduSpots has grown from a single learning hub ("Spot") in Abofour into a transformative, community-led education network directly reaching over 10,000 learners annually through 50 digitally enabled learning hubs across 13 regions of Ghana and Kenya. At its heart are 4...
Opening the Workshop: Women into STEM
East Essex Hackspace
This year we set ourselves one ambitious goal: to get significantly more women into STEM. East Essex Hackspace is Essex's first hackspace, a volunteer-run community workshop in Hawkwell with no paid staff, giving everyone hands-on access to wood, metal, 3D printing, laser-cutting, electronics and textiles, and we rebuilt the way people...
The DATIS Difference: Trauma-Informed Practice to Edge-of-Care Families
Act for Change
Act for Change (AFC) was founded in 2007 and has operated for 18 years. We are a small charity based in South East London, currently employing four members of staff, all paid above the London Living Wage. We serve children, young people and families experiencing trauma, abuse, emotional distress and systemic disadvantage — primarily ac...
Financial or Procurement Excellence of the Year
A Record-Breaking Year of Grant Making
Bank of Scotland Foundation
n 2025, Bank of Scotland Foundation delivered a bold and sector‑shaping shift in Scotland’s funding landscape. Guided by its five‑year strategy, Building a Brighter Future for Scotland, the Foundation responded to one of the Third Sector’s most urgent challenges: the chronic instability created by short‑term, restricted, low‑flexibilit...
Financial Stewardship Through Growth, Investment and System Value
Rotherham Hospice
Rotherham Hospice’s Finance and Resources team is small, but in 2025/26 its impact was organisation-wide. Operating in a challenging hospice funding environment, the team helped the Hospice grow total income to £9.56m, manage expenditure of £10.19m, remain £163k under budget on total expenditure, and close the year with a net deficit o...
From Process to Purpose: Transforming Procurement at the British Red Cross
British Red Cross
Since 2022, British Red Cross Corporate Procurement has been transformed from a small, process heavy function into a trusted, values led strategic partner to the organisation. The team has grown significantly in size, capability, confidence and influence. This transformation has delivered clear and measurable impact. Procurement policy...
Best Policy Initiative of the Year
#RunningOnEmpty – a Young Cancer Patient Travel Fund
Young Lives vs Cancer
Every year, over 4,000 children and young people (0–24) are diagnosed with cancer in the UK. Because their treatment is delivered at one of just 19 specialist centres, families must often travel long distances to treatment at an average cost of £250 a month over many months or even years. Our research shows more than 70% struggle with ...
Benedict's Law
Benedict Blythe Foundation
Following the death of five-year-old Benedict Blythe from an allergic reaction at school, the Benedict Blythe Foundation led the campaign for Benedict's Law – the most significant improvement in school allergy safety ever undertaken in England. The campaign united families, clinicians, charities, educators and parliamentarians behind ...
Centrepoint's campaign to Make Work Pay
Centrepoint
If you work more hours, you should be better off. But this isn’t the case for more than 30,000 young people who have experienced homelessness. Because of a long-standing flaw in the system, the moment they work more hours, vital benefits are stripped away – often leaving them worse-off for trying to find their independence. Centrepoint...
IT Reuse for Good Charter
Good Things Foundation
The IT Reuse for Good Charter is a transformative policy initiative dismantling the UK’s digital divide while promoting a pioneering circular tech economy, resulting in 22,000 devices for people and families who can’t afford them. Co-developed by Good Things Foundation, UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology...
Leave for Every Loss
Miscarriage UK
We believe anyone experiencing pregnancy loss before 24 weeks — including partners — should have a legal right to bereavement leave from work. Our Leave for Every Loss campaign was created to secure this change in law. Currently, statutory leave applies only after 24 weeks, forcing those experiencing miscarriage or other types of preg...
ShortSighted campaign: ending short prison sentences
Revolving Doors
Every year the UK sends 30,000 people to prison for an ineffective, damaging, disruptive short sentence – We asked the government to review this and introduce a new presumption against the use of short custodial sentences of less than six months. We also asked to strengthen community sentences so that they command public confidence a...
Streets Ahead - Pavement Parking
Guide Dogs
Guide Dogs’ pavement parking campaign aimed to deliver lasting change and enable people to live and travel independently. Pavement parking is a widespread and dangerous problem: 95% of people with sight loss report being forced into the road by parked cars, undermining confidence, independence and quality of life. While pavement park...
Best Sustainability Initiative of the Year
Climate Code: Taking people from climate anxiety to agency
DigitALL
In a school garden in Reading, children are using micro:bit soil moisture sensors they coded themselves to decide when to water their plants, saving water and learning that technology can solve problems they care about. And across the country, students are building air quality trackers that generate real data for local clean air campai...
Giving unused bicycles a new life
Re-Cycle (Bikes to Africa)
Re-Cycle (Bikes to Africa) is a pioneering sustainability charity that has been championing the circular economy for almost 30 years. Since 1997, we have diverted more than 165,000 unwanted bicycles from waste streams and given them a second life in rural African communities.By collecting donated bicycles across the UK, preparing them ...
Partnership Awards
Charity Partnership of the Year
Communities In Sync
Communities In Sync (CIS) is a formal partnership of over 20 trusted, grass-roots voluntary and community organisations across the West Midlands, with a particular focus on boroughs which are amongst the most deprived in the country (e.g. Sandwell). Our purpose is to reduce health inequalities by co-designing solutions, securing fundi...
Corridor Care Coalition
Royal College of Nursing, British Medical Association, British Geriatrics Society, The Foundation of Nursing Studies, Royal College of Physicians, The Patients Association, John’s Campaign, Age UK, Royal College of Pharmacy, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Action against medical accidents, Royal College of Emergency Medicine, The Society for Acute Medicine, Healthwatch, National Voices, Marie Curie
The Corridor Care Coalition is a partnership formed to tackle the growing and unsafe practice of caring for patients in non clinical spaces. This includes patients being assessed, treated or left waiting for long periods in corridors, waiting rooms or other unsuitable spaces, often without privacy, dignity or appropriate equipment. Fo...
Education Support Service
Guide Dogs and Thomas Pocklington Trust
Established in April 2025, the partnership between Thomas Pocklington Trust and Guide Dogs was created to deliver a more joined-up, efficient and accessible education support service for blind and partially sighted people. Before the partnership, both organisations offered valuable education services, but there was overlap, particularl...
Restoring water and livelihoods in South Africa’s Umzimvubu catchment
Swarovski Foundation and Conservation South Africa
Over the past year of implementation, seven natural springs have been rehabilitated, providing 776 households across six villages with reliable access to clean water. Alongside this, 163 community members have been trained in water, sanitation and hygiene practices, with women and youth stepping into leadership roles within newly forme...
Stay Warm Stay Well
Groundwork and Cadent Foundation
Groundwork and the Cadent Foundation’s Stay Warm Stay Well partnership is transforming how fuel poverty is tackled in England. Since 2020, the partnership has grown into one of the country’s largest community-based fuel poverty programmes, combining Cadent Foundation’s long-term investment with Groundwork’s trusted local delivery to pr...
The Warm Homes Network - working in partnership to tackle poverty
Turn2us, YES Energy, and Citizens Advice Manchester supported by Cadent Gas & Northern Gas Networks
The third sector is a vital source of support for people facing financial hardship, but no organisation can tackle the problem alone. This is particularly true for poverty – it is complex and doesn’t exist in isolation. If someone is struggling to heat their home, it’s likely more wraparound support is needed too. Collaboration is at t...
Upstream UK Partnership
Centrepoint, Llamau, The Rock Trust, MACS NI
The Upstream UK Partnership is a pioneering four nation collaboration tackling youth homelessness through prevention rather than crisis response. Chaired by Llamau and supported by Centrepoint, The Rock Trust, and MACS NI, the partnership brings together the UK’s leading youth homelessness organisations to design, deliver and scale a s...
Corporate Partnership Of The Year - Small
Anchor
Omnicom Media and WYK Digital
We know ad land struggles with representation. Improvements have been made but just 14.6% of its workforce is from a minority ethnic background, against 39.9% of Londoners. Only 19% are working-class — the widest gap of any characteristic the All In Census tracks. Women working in agencies earn 83p for every £1 earned by men.WYK Digita...
Carefree x Glide: Scaling National Respite Through No-Code Innovation
Carefree and Glide
In May 2026 I had to fly to Belgium at short notice to care for my mum. The unpaid carer life finds you whether you booked it in the calendar or not. I am Carefree's CTO, and I am also one of the 5.7 million unpaid carers in the UK who save the public purse £184 billion a year. 65% of us cannot get a break when we need one. Carefree ex...
Forthglade Natural Dog Food and Veterans With Dogs
Veterans With Dogs andForthglade Natural Dog Food
For more than eight years, Forthglade Natural Pet Food has been an extraordinary corporate partner to Veterans With Dogs, supporting Armed Forces veterans living with complex mental health challenges through highly trained assistance dog partnerships. As fellow Devon-based organisations, the partnership was built on shared values arou...
House of Books & Friends and gunnercooke
House of Books & Friends, which was founded by law firm gunnercooke in 2022, is a community focused bookshop and café with a social mission to tackle loneliness and social isolation. Created as a Community Interest Company (CIC), every penny of profit is reinvested into community initiatives that bring people together through books and...
One Million Books on New Adventures
The Children's Book Project and Asda
The Children's Book Project's partnership with Asda is helping to tackle book poverty by increasing access to books for children across the UK. Together, we have developed a scalable, practical model that combines national reach, logistics expertise and effective use of backhaul opportunity plus colleague engagement to deliver meaningf...
The Switch Charity and Barclays
Since the inception of our partnership in 2012, Barclays has been supporting not only our shared community of young people to reach their best future, but supporting The Switch strategically as a small local charity, so we can flourish and effect long-term change in the borough of Tower Hamlets. By providing over 600 volunteers per ye...
Corporate Partnership of the Year - Large
2026 TCS London Marathon Charity of the Year
Marie Curie and London Marathon Events
The 2026 TCS London Marathon Charity of the Year partnership brought together Marie Curie and London Marathon Events to harness the power of the world’s largest one-day fundraising event and shine a national spotlight on the urgent need for better end of life care. Building on multiple previous bids, the partnership underpinned Marie C...
All Together, Better
Centrepoint and Coventry Building Society,
In April 2023, Coventry Building Society (CBS) launched a three-year, multi‑million‑pound strategic partnership with Centrepoint and St Basils to help end youth homelessness. Rooted in a shared belief that every young person deserves a safe place to call home, the partnership brought together Centrepoint’s national reach, St Basils’ lo...
Asda Tickled Pink
Breast Cancer Now, CoppaFeel! and Asda
In 1996, Asda Tickled Pink was formed after colleagues lobbied the business to support breast cancer charities. Asda offers national reach and trusted supplier relationships, with over 150,000 employees serving 18 million weekly customers, including low-income households, ethnic minority communities and older and younger age groups, al...
Crisis, Simon Community and Lloyds Banking Group
Since 2023, Crisis and Lloyds Banking Group, alongside Simon Community in Northern Ireland, have built a pioneering partnership united by a shared belief that everyone deserves a safe and secure place to call home. Together, the partnership has combined long-term funding, employee expertise, campaigning power and frontline innovation t...
Maggie's and Howden
Howden and Maggie’s 2-year partnership began in 2024 with the aim to deliver long term impact for the increasing number of people affected by cancer. The partnership recognised the organisations shared belief that everyone should have access to emotional and practical support whilst impacted by a cancer diagnosis. Maggie’s is a leadi...
Motor Neurone Disease Association and Toyota GB
The diagnosis of a colleague with motor neurone disease was the driver for the team at Toyota GB to adopt the Motor Neurone Disease Association as charity partner. What began as a three year commitment has been extended twice, with the partnership now in its sixth year and a £1 million fundraising target in sight. Toyota GB staff have ...
When Daddy Pig Ran the Marathon for George
National Deaf Children's Society and Hasbro
The National Deaf Children’s Society supports children with any level or type of hearing loss. Our partnership with Hasbro (owners of the Peppa Pig brand) significantly increased national awareness of childhood deafness and the support we provide, helping us reach more families while raising vital income. The announcement that George ...
Medium Corporate Partnership of the Year
Building Pathways to Educational Opportunity
The Access Project and ICG
Many corporate-charity partnerships focus on funding programme delivery. The partnership between The Access Project (TAP) and ICG demonstrates what can be achieved when a corporate partner invests not only in outcomes, but in the organisational capacity required to sustain and scale them. Since 2022, ICG has supported TAP at a pivotal ...
Farm to Fork
Soil Association and Ocado Retail
Nature is in decline. And while 70% of our land is farmed, the Soil Association knows that the fight for nature will be won on our farms. We are delighted to partner with Ocado Retail, the UK’s largest online only supermarket, who support the organic market with over 3000 products (the UK’s biggest organic range), and regularly outperf...
Hospitality Ending Homelessness
Social Bite and Mitchells & Butlers
Born during 2020 lockdowns with a simple ‘Pay It Forward’ Christmas campaign in Scottish venues, the partnership has grown year on year into one of the most ambitious charity–business collaborations in the UK hospitality sector. This is a transformational partnership between Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), one of the UK’s largest restauran...
Saving Lives Together
Admiral Slots
Since launching in August 2022, the partnership between the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Admiral has set a new benchmark for purpose‑driven corporate partnerships. United by a shared ambition to tackle heart and circulatory disease, which affects over 8 million people in the UK, the partnership goes far beyond traditional fundrai...
Supporting Young People's Mental Health
YoungMinds and Marks & Spencers
One in five young people in England are struggling with their mental health, up from one in nine in 2017. With rising need and record demand for services, too many young people are without support.YoungMinds, the UK’s leading youth mental health charity, partnered with retailer M&S in October 2023. With a goal to raise £5million in thr...
The Care Workers' Charity and Nationwide (Virgin Money)
In April 2025, Nationwide (Virgin Money) and The Care Workers' Charity (The CWC) launched the first partnership of its kind in the UK social care sector: a structural, self-sustaining giving mechanism built directly into Virgin Money's commercial activity in the sector. The partnership was born from a shared recognition that the care w...
The Grand Appeal and Aardman Animations
The partnership between Aardman Animations and The Grand Appeal is one of the UK’s most impactful corporate charity partnerships. Spanning 30 years and raising almost £100 million for Bristol Children’s Hospital, it has made a profound difference to the lives of sick children and families across the South West. From the beginning, Aa...
Talent Awards
Frontline Team Of The Year
#MORSE and MORSE YOUTH
YSS
YSS delivers holistic, community-based support across Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Warwickshire. Our locally based teams work alongside individuals experiencing disadvantage, poverty, trauma and exclusion — supporting them to stabilise their circumstances, understand their rights and responsibilities,...
Ar Trac Team
Calan DVS
The Ar Trac Team at Calan DVS is a specialist frontline team comprising Katie, Gareth, Cheryl, Rebeka, Sara, Jade, Jorden, Grace and Emily. Together, they deliver structured, trauma-informed support to children and young people affected by domestic abuse and violence. Their objective is to provide safe, age-appropriate interventions th...
C360 Community Transport Team
Community360
Community360's community transport frontline team delivers over 36,000 passenger journeys every year across Colchester, Chelmsford, and Maldon, ensuring that older, disabled, and isolated residents can access healthcare, essential services, and social connection. Waiting lists regularly exceed 500 passengers and daily demand routinely ...
Careers Specialists
Drive Forward Foundation
Care-experienced young people face significant barriers to work and are almost three times more likely to be NEET (not in education, employment or training) than their peers (40% vs 13%). Drive Forward’s passionate, committed Careers Specialists provide intensive 1:1 support that empowers young people to overcome these barriers and m...
Debt Free Advisers
Debt Free Advice and Toynbee Hall
Debt Free Advice is a London-wide frontline advice team delivered by 18 community-based charities and led by Toynbee Hall. In 2025/26, the team supported more than 12,000 Londoners and secured £24.4 million in financial gains, the highest in its history. What makes this team distinctive is its unity. Over 100 advisers, based in diff...
Hospice at Home Team
Rotherham Hospice
Rotherham Hospice’s Hospice at Home team delivers specialist palliative and end-of-life care to people in the place they call home, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In 2025/26, the team completed 12,320 home visits, recorded 38,102 calls and provided more than 1,718 hours of telephone support. Their work helped avoid 1,363 hospital ...
Migrant Help Outreach Team
Migrant Help
The Migrant Help Outreach Team delivers specialised support to people seeking asylum nationally, via telephone, video calls, and face-to-face appointments. They consistently adapt their approach to meet the individual needs of their clients. They are a team that carries the emotional weight of frontline work together, lifting one ano...
Fundraising Team Of The Year
Business Beats Cancer Edinburgh
Always Be Content
Business Beats Cancer Edinburgh (BBCE) is a volunteer fundraising board operating as part of Cancer Research UK. The board is the fundraising team – eight working professionals plus two ambassadors, with no paid staff and no operating budget. Every pound we raise is raised by us, in our own time, from our own networks for the CRUK Scot...
Fundraising and Communications Team
Homeless Oxfordshire
Following a period of instability and staff turnover that led to declining income, a new Fundraising and Communications team at Homeless Oxfordshire came together in 2023 with a clear goal: to rebuild trust, relationships and infrastructure in order to secure sustainable, diversified income and reach a fundraising target of £750,000 by...
Income Generation Team
Rotherham Hospice
In 2025/26, Rotherham Hospice’s Income Generation Team transformed community support into care for local people facing terminal illness. Total funds raised reached £4.94m, an increase of 11.0%, while fundraising income grew by 31.2%. Retail and café income grew by 93.3%, helping diversify income and strengthen long-term sustainability....
Mass Fundraising Team
Marie Curie
Marie Curie's Mass Fundraising team delivered a year of exceptional performance, generating over £71m to provide vital care for people at end of life in the UK, at a time when many organisations across the sector reported declines. The team took on a significant, and seemingly impossible, challenge: to increase income whilst reducing ...
The Grand Appeal
In 2025, The Grand Appeal’s fundraising team delivered the most ambitious and successful year in the charity’s 30 year history, centred around Gromit Unleashed 3, a record breaking public art trail that raised over £2 million for Bristol Children’s Hospital. Bringing together thirteen specialists across corporate, community, events, in...
War Child UK
In a year of unprecedented need for children living through conflict, the War Child UK fundraising team has delivered record-breaking results. Our total income was £19.9 million – 33% better than our budget, and 58% better than the previous year. We are so proud of our donors, partners and staff whose tenacity and creativity have mad...
Rising Chief Executive
Adam Pemberton Wickham
akt
Adam has been Chief Executive of akt, the UK’s only national LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity, since October 2024. During that time and as a result of Adam’s leadership, akt has: -Supported more young people than ever (nearly 1,200) with a smaller team and young people facing ever more complex and severe challenges -Boldly stepped...
Amy Chambers
Rays of Sunshine
Since becoming CEO of Rays of Sunshine Children's Charity, Amy Chambers has led one of the most significant transformations in the organisation's 22-year history. Taking over during a period of financial uncertainty, operational challenges and declining visibility, Amy implemented a comprehensive turnaround strategy that has restored ...
Cat Davison
EduSpots
Cat Davison was appointed as CEO in 2024 following an open recruitment process, after nine years of voluntary leadership of EduSpots whilst also teaching full-time, during which time she was recognised as a $1 million Global Teacher Prize Finalist. Since this official appointment, Cat has led the team through significant organisation...
Dr Helena Dunbar
Kentown Support
Children’s community palliative care provision remains highly variable across the UK, often determined by postcode rather than need. For many babies, children and young people, with life-limiting conditions, accessing community-based palliative care or dying at home isn't an option. These inequalities are particularly evident in areas ...
Emma Bray
I Choose Freedom
Emma Bray became Chief Executive of I Choose Freedom two years ago at a time when the domestic abuse charity was at risk of closure, and her incredible leadership has stabilised the lifesaving charity, created new projects, secured vital funding and built a strong vision for the future, As someone who has lived experience of domestic a...
Jo Kerr
Verture
Since becoming CEO of Verture in December 2024, Jo Kerr has led a period of rapid and transformative change, repositioning the charity organisation and strengthening its influence at a critical moment for climate resilience in the UK. Within her first year, Jo led the transition from Sniffer to Verture, clarifying its identity as the ...
Rising Star
Bronagh Lamy
Villiers Park Educational Trust
Since joining Villiers Park three years ago, Bronagh has transformed the charity’s communications. Villiers Park has an annual turnover of just over £1 million and a communications team of only two people, yet Bronagh’s purpose, resourcefulness and motivation have reshaped how we communicate our work and championed the voices of the yo...
Joni Emery
Clinks
People with lived experience of the criminal justice system have deep insight into realities, challenges and opportunities for change, yet leadership pathways are often limited or unsupported. In just 5 years, Joni Emery has progressed from a temporary administrator to a national leader on lived experience. Reshaping organisational cul...
Josh Ennis
Centrepoint
Over the past decade, Josh has been on a remarkable transformational journey with Centrepoint: first supported by the charity, then volunteering for six years, and now shaping two roles created in recognition of his impact. Driven by a desire to give back, he has already made a direct difference to thousands of young people experiencin...
Tasmin Reader
Delight
“It was one of my best experiences at school. I would love to do it again if I could.” CHILD Delight is a leading arts-based learning charity with a vision for every child to have an equitable opportunity to thrive during their school years and beyond. Over the past 10 years, and in collaboration with a team of exceptional arts partne...
Vafie Sheriff
Youth MedAid
Dr Vafie Sheriff is the founder of Youth MedAid (formerly Student MedAid London), a youth-led Community Interest Company redistributing excess medical equipment to under-resourced settings worldwide, while building a generation of globally health-literate professionals. He founded the organisation in 2022 after witnessing the dichotomy...
Volunteer of the Year
James Nunn
Cats Protection
For more than eight years, James Nunn has made a transformative regional impact within Cats Protection, strengthening how the charity supports both cats and communities across the North East. His contribution is defined by the meaningful change he has created through them. James brings stability, confidence, and long‑term resilience to...
John Bird
Migrant Help
John is a highly valued volunteer who has been delivering English classes to survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking for nearly a decade. He works with great sensitivity and care to tailor the English classes to the needs of those in the room, taking into account their existing skills and making sure the lessons are engaging ...
Jyoti Chauhan
Leeds Hospitals Charity
Over the past four years Retail Volunteer Jyoti has transformed from a shy volunteer who preferred working in the stock room to becoming the shop’s celebrated “Queen of Roundups,” regularly leading in securing additional donations at the till. Jyoti is now a core member of the Merrion shop team, contributing across all aspects of the ...
Volunteer Team of the Year
Business Beats Cancer Edinburgh (BBCE)
Business Beats Cancer Edinburgh (BBCE) is an entirely volunteer-led fundraising board operating as part of Cancer Research UK. We have no paid staff, no operating budget and no office. We have a small group of working professionals – eight active board members and two ambassadors – who, between them, have raised over £900,000 for cance...
Connecting Communities Volunteer Drivers
Community360
Community360's Connecting Communities Volunteer Drivers are the backbone of one of Essex's most vital community transport services. The team comprises nine volunteer social car drivers and twelve volunteer minibus drivers, collectively contributing over 10,300 hours every year to help older, disabled, and isolated residents across Colc...
Cycling Without Age England Trustee Board
Cycling Without Age England
Cycling Without Age England's volunteer trustee board has delivered transformational impact over the past year. This entirely volunteer-led team increased the charity's income from £1,400 to £19,000 in 1 single year - a growth of 1250% – enabling the launch of a new chapter in Blackpool, England's topmost multiply deprived areas. We su...
Lived Experience Advisory Panel
Migrant Help
The members of Migrant Help’s Lived Experience Advisory Panel are people with lived experience of asylum, modern slavery and migration processes who give their time and use their experience to create something better for people going through these systems now. They contribute as advisers, co-designers and facilitators, and as people w...
Media Trust Volunteer Films Team
Media Trust
In the past year, Media Trust’s volunteer filmmaking team has turned 16,280 hours of skilled volunteering into 50 powerful charity films, created by 715 volunteer filmmakers and crew members across the UK. Each project brings together directors, producers, editors, camera operators, sound specialists and wider production crews, suppor...
Rotherham Hospice Volunteers
Rotherham Hospice
Rotherham Hospice’s volunteers are not an add-on to the charity. They are part of the care, welcome, income and community spirit that make the Hospice possible. In 2025/26, 322 volunteers supported the Hospice, including 153 new volunteers. Together, they gave 52,328.56 hours, compared with 31,183 hours in the previous year. Their con...
Whittington Babies Committee
Whittington Babies
Whittington Babies deserves to win Volunteer Team of the Year because everything we do is powered entirely by volunteers. What makes our charity so special is the team itself: parents with lived experience of neonatal intensive care working side by side with NICU staff for families at their most vulnerable. This year, one of our bigges...
Unsung Hero
Alex Robins
Centrepoint Soho
Over thirteen years, Alex has quietly transformed how Centrepoint secures income to support young people facing homelessness. Joining in 2013 as a Trusts and Statutory Fundraising Officer, he immersed himself in frontline work, building relationships that enabled him to identify gaps in provision and develop funding proposals rooted in...
Arjun Malhotra
Migrant Help
Arjun has built Migrant Help’s Co-Production function from scratch, starting on his own and building not just a team but also a network of Lived Experience Advisory Panels that now influence decisions, shape services and inform legislation. He encourages and supports colleagues across all levels of the charity to include client voice...
Ben Black
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Ben Black has spent more than 15 years working within the charity sector, since 2021 at the RNLI Ben has become one of the driving forces behind some of the most innovative developments in fundraising technology and operational accessibility. Originally responsible for supporting the onboarding of donation terminals at RNLI, Ben trans...
Mirjam Bons
Migrant Help
Since joining Migrant Help in 2019, Mirjam has established the Quality team and developed it from a one-person department to one where her colleagues feel valued, empowered to explore new ideas and feel like a key part of the charity. She has established measurable and improvable metrics to showcase the impact of Migrant Help’s work an...
Charity Chair Of The Year
Amie Corry
Hospital Rooms
Amie Corry has been the chair of Hospital Rooms for the last 4 years. Hospital Rooms is a UK charity that works with artists and mental health patients to transform cold, clinical and inhumane wards into places that offer hope, beauty and joy. In the 4 years of being the chair of the Hospital Rooms board, Amie has shaped how we thi...
Bruce Warner
Rotherham Hospice
Bruce Warner has provided calm, generous and quietly exceptional leadership as Chair of Trustees during a defining period for Rotherham Hospice. He became a trustee in December 2021 and Chair in October 2023. Since then, he has supported the Chief Executive through regular fortnightly catch-ups, offering challenge, encouragement and wi...
Julie Dawn Gray
Back on the Map
Julie Dawn Gray, Chairperson of Back on the Map since 2014, is nominated for a Third Sector Award in recognition of her exceptional leadership, long-standing commitment, and transformative impact on one of Sunderland’s most disadvantaged communities. Under her guidance, the organisation has significantly expanded both its reach and imp...
Matthew Wilson
Blood Cancer UK
Matthew Wilson deserves to win this award for two good reasons. Firstly, he goes beyond his formal governance remit through his determination and commitment to fundraising and engagement. Following his own blood cancer diagnosis, he set up the Matthew Wilson Multiple Myeloma Fund in 2022, with an ambitious target of £5 million. The Fu...
Tom Foot
Breakout Youth
I am pleased to nominate Tom Foot for the Third Sector Award for Charity Chair of the Year in recognition of their outstanding leadership, vision, and unwavering commitment to supporting LGBTQ+ young people (YP). As Chair of Breakout Youth, Tom has provided exceptional strategic direction during a period of significant growth and inc...
Celebrity Charity Champion
Anna Maxwell-Martin
Action for Children
Action for Children’s partnership with Emmy-winning actor Anna Maxwell Martin transformed the charity’s 2025 Christmas fundraising campaign, Secret Santa, through the standout PR-led film Santaland. Rooted in a clear strategic insight, that “devoted families” respond to emotional, authentic storytelling, the creative used Anna’s truste...
Sir Jonathan Pryce
Alzheimer's Society
This nomination recognises Sir Jonathan Pryce CBE for his exceptional dedication to Alzheimer’s Society as an official Ambassador. Over the past three years, he has consistently used his platform, voice and influence to increase public understanding of dementia and raise awareness of the nearly one million people living with the condit...
Tom Simons
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
TommyInnit (Tom Simons) has shown outstanding and genuine support for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) over the past 12 months combining personal commitment with sector leading impact. The partnership was established through MonRae Management as part of GOSH Charity’s strategic move into gaming and streaming to engag...
Communications Team Of The Year
Allkind Mental Health and Wellbeing
What do you do when the brand that shaped your identity for 40 years becomes the thing holding you back? In 2025, that was the question facing West Central London Mind. As NHS landscapes shifted into regional areas, birthing Integrated Care Boards, our affiliation with the Mind federation became a barrier, restricted our geographic rea...
Cancer Research UK
Between June 2025 and May 2026, Cancer Research UK’s Communications team transformed from a high-performing function into one of the organisation’s most powerful drivers of impact. In a fragmented and low-trust information landscape, we made complex cancer science understandable, mobilised millions to act, and helped secure once-in-a-...
Communications and Creative Team
Islamic Relief UK
The Islamic Relief UK communications team is made up of media, advocacy and public affairs, and the creative content teams. The team is a key part of our response to the ongoing fight we face against Islamophobia, which is one of the greatest challenges we face, and bolster our reputation and message communication more broadly. Advoc...
MarComms Team
Whizz Kidz
The Whizz Kidz Marcomms team is a unified, purpose‑driven function dedicated to raising the voice and visibility of young wheelchair users across the UK. In 2025, following major organisational restructures and the loss of half the team, we rebuilt ourselves into a strategically aligned, high‑performing unit. Despite reduced capacity a...
Marketing and Communications team
Dogs Trust
In 2025, the Dogs Trust Marketing and Communications team delivered record-breaking results while steering the organisation through its most significant period of change. Brand awareness reached an all-time high of 33% and Dogs Trust climbed two places to 6th on the Third Sector Charity Brand Index. Internally, 96% of staff were reache...
Charity Chief Executive
Abigail Lock
Back Up
Abigail Lock joined Back Up as Chief Executive in January 2020. She leads with ambition, values and a constant drive to do better for people affected by spinal cord injury. Since then, Back Up has experienced one of its most significant periods of growth, change and impact in its 40-year history. Under her leadership, Back Up has g...
Cristina Huddleston
Community360
Cristina (Cris) Huddleston joined Community360, a Colchester-based charity with over 50 years of service to communities across Essex, as Chief Operating Officer before being appointed interim Chief Executive in November 2024. She was confirmed as substantive CEO in March 2025. She inherited an organisation under severe pressure: financ...
Duncan Pearse
Northpoint
This entry recognises how Duncan Pearse’s leadership has strengthened Northpoint’s clarity, resilience and long term sustainability, giving the organisation greater confidence, stronger governance and clear sense of purpose and direction. This has been achieved during a period of rising demand for mental health services, system change...
Lucy Jackson
Spread a Smile
Since joining Spread a Smile in February 2017 and becoming Chief Executive in December 2017, Lucy has transformed a small volunteer-led charity into a nationally recognised organisation that delivers joy, connection and emotional support to tens of thousands of seriously ill children, young people and family members every year. Under h...
Martin Edmondson
Graduate Futures Institute
Martin Edmondson has led a remarkable turnaround of the Graduate Futures Institute (formerly AGCAS) over the last 12 months. Appointed Chief Executive in July 2024, he took charge during a period of financial uncertainty and declining member confidence driven by higher education budget cuts, with the future of the nearly 60-year-old ch...
Michelle Whelan
Calan DVS
Michelle Whelan is the CEO of Calan DVS, a leading domestic violence/abuse (DVA) and sexual violence (SV) charity in Wales. Appointed permanently as CEO in 2021 after many years as Deputy/Interim CEO, Michelle has delivered transformational leadership, expanding Calan’s reach, impact and reputation across Mid, South and West Wales. Her...
Richard Franklin
Kisharon Langdon
Richard Franklin’s leadership has transformed Kisharon Langdon into a single, sustainable organisation capable of supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic people seamlessly throughout their lives, addressing a long standing gap within the Jewish community. Joining Kisharon in 2013, appointed Chief Executive in 2018, an...