Shortlist 2025
Excellence Awards
Best Small Charity Film
Pain into Purpose
African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT)
Pain into Purpose is a project comprising of two short films developed by the ACLT in collaboration with Poetic Unity a Brixton based charity empowering young people to use poetry as a tool to access their highest potential. Together we aimed to shed light on the struggles faced by young Black people living with Sickle Cell Disorder. E...
Voices of the Exploited
Link to Change
Voices of the Exploited is a raw and moving campaign video created in-house by Link to Change, a frontline charity working with children and young people that are victims and survivors of sexual exploitation. Featuring real life stories, and powerful imagery, the video gives voice to those too often silenced or ignored — amplifying t...
“Not Just A Story”
Sussex Cancer Fund
“Jos’s Story” is a powerful and emotive short film created by the Sussex Cancer Fund, a small but impactful charity dedicated to supporting people affected by cancer across Sussex. In this deeply personal video, Jos, a patient, shares her cancer journey and the vital role the charity played in supporting her physical and emotional well...
Best Medium Charity Film
Break The Cycle
Film and TV Charity
There is a mental health crisis in the film, TV, and cinema industry - and the Film and TV Charity's most recent research shows that it's getting worse. Bad working conditions and culture, and the industry's ability to support its workers are contributing to shocking statistics, with one third of behind the scenes workers taking active...
Save Sight. Change Lives.
Fight for Sight
The film aimed to bring to life Fight for Sight's brand narrative following the merger of Fight for Sight and Vision Foundation. Specifically, when someone faces a diagnosis of vision loss, they face two urgent, profound questions. Can this be stopped? How can I live my life? As a funder of scientific research and social change, we are...
Best Large Charity Film
Dementia: Behind Closed Doors
Alzheimer's Society
Around 1 million people are living with dementia behind closed doors. Thousands of families are left to cope alone with its devastation, feeling overwhelmed, unsupported and isolated. Featuring the likes of Vicky McClure, David Baddiel and Anna Richardson, as well as families from across the UK, Alzheimer’s Society’s powerful Dementia:...
From the Moment 2024
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice
From That Moment 2024, is a campaign film by Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice that features the story of Elaine and her daughter Willow. Through both poem and interview, the film charts the journey from the moment Elaine found our she was pregnant, to Willow’s birth, to diagnosis, to present day. The film explores Elaine coming to terms ...
Leaving
Migrant Help
Migrant Help’s film ‘Leaving’, produced in partnership with 23red, draws on the experiences of refugees and people seeking asylum of having to leave their lives behind at a moment’s notice. The film, shot in first person perspective, offers the viewers a unique opportunity to share a fragment of experience of people affected by displac...
Real Talk- It's time to get real about prostate cancer
Prostate Cancer Research
Real Talk aimed to reduce racial health inequalities in prostate cancer –1 in 4 Black men will develop prostate cancer and Black men are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men. Despite this, too few Black men know about their increased risk of prostate cancer – and greater awareness could save lives. Real Talk enga...
Red Nose Day 2025 - Doing Good Never Gets Old
Comic Relief
To mark the official launch of Red Nose Day 2025, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Joanna Lumley star in a brand-new sketch to inspire the nation to come together and do something funny for money. Bringing together two beloved voices of comedy, the film is a joyous reminder that whether it’s 1985 or 2025, doing good never gets old as Comic Re...
The People's Manifesto
Shelter
Shelter’s legacy film takes viewers on an emotional journey, starting with a powerful and modern introduction that stands out from traditional legacy films. The characters celebrate our audience, connecting to their individuality by showing them in their best light. As the film progresses, it becomes increasingly intense, shedding ligh...
WHERE THERE'S WATER, THERE'S A WAY
WaterAid UK
The WHERE THERE’S WATER, THERE’S A WAY fundraising campaign drove donations of over £1.7million for WaterAid in just four months, unlocking clean water access for the community of Chinganji, Malawi. Central to this achievement was a powerful, emotionally resonant film that told the authentic story of two girls navigating the realities ...
Best Service Delivery Innovation
Acceptance and Commitment Education Programme
Cardiomyopathy UK
This is the first Acceptance and Commitment Education programme developed specifically for the cardiomyopathy community. It was created in direct response to what our community has consistently told us: there is a serious lack of access to meaningful mental health support following diagnosis. Many people are left to cope alone on long ...
Family History Checker
Pancreatic Cancer UK
Pancreatic cancer is among the least survivable cancers, with a 5-year survival rate of just 7.3%. As of 2021, 80% of cases were diagnosed late. Around 10% of cases are linked to hereditary factors and surveillance is recommended for people with high inherited risk. However, this surveillance has not been implemented consistently acros...
Sunbeams: Expanding Bereavement Support for Children in Crisis
Rotherham Hospice
Sunbeams is the only face-to-face bereavement support service for children and young people in Rotherham, and demand has never been greater. In 2024/25, the service was urgently reconfigured and expanded to meet a dramatic rise in grief-related trauma among children, many of whom had experienced sudden or unexpected death outside of ho...
Thousands of Smiles Programme
Absolutely Together
Absolutely Together is the parent charity of Absolutely Fitness, Absolutely Laser, Absolutely Karting, Little Hay Golf Complex and The XC. All profits from these venues lead into Absolutely Together. We believe leisure should be for every member of the family, not just those without additional needs. That’s why we created the Thousand...
Turning Point
CHESS Homeless
Alongside the Cost of Living Crisis, nationally we are also in the midst of a Housing Crisis. CHESS homeless who work with single Homeless adults in Essex have seen a rapid increase in the number of referrals to our service increasing from 15 to up to 50. CHESS has over doubled in size since the pandemic and have worked tirelessly to s...
Working Chance - education and training for women with convictions
Working Chance
Working Chance is the UK’s only employment charity dedicated to women with criminal convictions. In early 2024, we identified a critical gap: many women couldn’t access education or training opportunities essential for rebuilding their lives. In response, we expanded our service to support women into education or training. Through our...
Best Use Of Social Media
Career Advice direct to beneficiaries
Working Options in Education
Working Options in Education is helping young people across England and Wales build the skills, knowledge and access the opportunities they need to shape their own career journeys. In 2024, we launched a social-first digital project to scale our impact and respond directly to what young people told us they wanted: careers content that’...
Creative Youth Voice on Social Media
The Mighty Creatives
“Working with The Mighty Creatives (TMC) has reminded me that communications can be an act of advocacy. That Instagram isn’t just a platform - it can be a protest. That a blog post isn’t just content - it’s a call to action. And that social media, when led by the people most affected, can shift narratives in ways that matter.” – Hannah...
Nando's Campaign
River Action UK
River Action’s digital campaign exemplifies the transformative power of social media in environmental advocacy. Focused on rescuing Britain’s rivers—63% of which fail to meet good ecological status due largely to agricultural pollution—we spearheaded a bold campaign targeting Nando’s, whose intensive poultry supply chain has severely i...
The Traitors
Electrical Safety First
We decided at short notice to tap into the buzz being generated by the hugely popular BBC contest The Traitors by reimagining dangerous household gadgets in the iconic Traitors cloak using AI image generation, with a call to action on the public to spot and 'banish' substandard gadgets from their home. Our objective was to raise aware...
This Ramadan, we’re all thinking about one thing
Islamic Relief UK
In a context of the devastating situation in Palestine we decided to work on a social media campaign with prominent influencer Medina Grillo, during Ramadan. The campaign aimed to raise awareness of the emergency in Palestine and encourage our audience to sign our petition. We decided a short-form video would be most impactful and put ...
“Until no childhood is lost to serious illness” – how prioritising the real stories of children and families at Great Ormond Street Hospital re-positioned GOSH Charity
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
In June 2024, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity’s organic social media team led the launch of the Charity’s refreshed brand with one clear aim – to position childhood at the heart of everything we do. What came next was not a year of gimmicks – instead it was purposefully rooted in storytelling. We focused on the voices of the c...
Big Impact Award
Creating youth spaces made by young people, for young people
Social Investment Business
Social Investment Business was selected to deliver the Government’s £300M+ Youth Investment Fund (YIF) to invest in young people by building or renovating youth services in the most deprived areas of the country. It’s been a privilege to deliver the largest investment in the youth estate in more than half a century. Demand for grants...
Give an X
Shape History
At the start of the 2024 general election year, over 30% of 18-25s in the UK weren’t registered to vote. Many felt politics wasn’t for them—citing distrust, lack of knowledge, or apathy. To reverse this, Shape History partnered with My Life My Say and the iWill Movement to launch Give an X—a youth-led, non-partisan campaign that made p...
Legalising assisted dying for terminally ill people – digital mobilisation for Dignity in Dying
Forward Action
The campaign for assisted dying – powered by a long-term digital partnership between Dignity in Dying and Forward Action – is changing how the UK talks about death, dying and choice. With more than 600,000 supporters signed up through a purpose-built Official Record of Support, and thousands mobilised into activism, together we’ve help...
Little Hearts
Agency Kode
Muntada Aid’s “Little Hearts” project is a flagship humanitarian programme dedicated to tackling one of the most urgent global child health crises: congenital heart defects (CHD). Every year, over a million children are born with CHD, with tens of thousands in low-income countries left untreated due to a lack of access to specialist ca...
March for Clean Water
River Action UK
The March for Clean Water, led by River Action, was a landmark campaign launched in November 2025 to force clean water to the top of the UK’s political agenda. In response to growing outrage over polluted rivers, lakes, and seas, the march unified over 141 organisations representing 10 million people. Its aims were clear: to demand urg...
Surf Smart
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and Norton, one of Gen’s trusted Cyber Safety brands, partnered to create Surf Smart, the first Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting cyber awareness and safety programme. The programme gives girls and young women the skills, awareness and confidence to navigate safely and positive...
Brand Development
Bigger, Brighter, Bolder: A Refreshed AfriKids
AfriKids
AfriKids is a proudly African-led child rights organisation working in northern Ghana, where locally designed and delivered projects help hundreds of thousands of children stay safe, in school, and learning. As we marked our 20th anniversary, we reflected with partners and communities on our impact and future ambitions. We realised our...
Brand Refresh; New Look, Same Mission.
CoppaFeel!
In 2024, CoppaFeel! set out on a brand 'evolution, not a revolution'. The brief was clear; new look, same mission. Driven by insights from 1,600 young people aged 16–24, we recognised that we needed to evolve our look and feel for a digital-first generation and better connect with our primary audience of 18-24s. Partnering with youth ...
Family Action Brand Refresh
IE Brand and Digital
IE helped Family Action (a UK charity founded in 1869) to refresh their brand identity and rebuild their website. Family Action supports people through the hardest times, including financial hardship, mental health issues, and domestic abuse, and helps over 60,000 families annually. The project had tight time and budgetary constraints...
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity brand refresh
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity is one of the UK’s oldest children’s charities. While it had strong brand love, this wasn’t translating into equivalent levels of support. The charity needed a new, digitally-focused, accessible identity to cut through and connect. We had to move beyond our roots as a hospital fundraiser, te...
Nature Neighbourhoods
Lark for RSPB, National Trust, WWF
Nature needs looking after, now more than ever. Polluted rivers, heatwaves and shrinking green spaces affect all of us – right now and right in the heart of our communities. Which is why communities hold the key to protecting nature. This is the founding principle of Nature Neighbourhoods, a new initiative by RSPB, WWF and National Tr...
When Women Win: Rebranding to reflect bold impact
Hand in Hand International
In 2023, Hand in Hand International celebrated a major milestone: 10 million jobs created for women in some of the world’s most challenging places. Yet, despite our growing impact and increased funding success, our outdated brand was limiting our potential. Our messaging failed to reflect our effective, evidence-based model, locally-le...
Breakthrough Of The Year
Challenge Us! – Co-Creating Research for Societal Change
The Open University
The Open University’s (OU) Challenge Us! competition formed part of the pioneering Open Societal Challenges (OSC) programme, which represents a step-change in how research partnerships with charities are forged. As the first initiative of its kind in the UK higher education sector, Challenge Us! invited civil society organisations to p...
Change the Record
Amnesty International UK
In March 2025, Amnesty International UK (AIUK) launched 'Change the Record' - a groundbreaking collaboration with musicians designed to engage young people with human rights. AIUK hosted an event with Grammy nominated artist Mahalia to deliver an all-female showcase of emerging music and spoken word talent, focused on women's rights an...
Give An X
My Life My Say
Heading into the 2024 General Election, over 30% of 18-25 year olds were not registered to vote. Give An X sought to change that. By bringing politics to the spaces where young people already are, the Give An X campaign mobilised young people to register to vote, take up space and make their voices heard. The campaign was a breakthroug...
Make Health Equal
The Health Foundation
Health Equals is a coalition of 27 organizations committed to making health equality a national priority. In the UK, life expectancy can vary by up to 16 years based on where you live—an injustice that demands urgent attention. Ahead of the 2024 general election, we launched Make Health Equal, a bold campaign led by ‘Britain’s Younges...
Making Fashion Accessible for Blind & Low Vision People
Hair & Care
Making Fashion Accessible (MFA) is a ground-breaking initiative from Hair & Care CIC - a non-profit that works to create inclusive experiences for the sight loss community. Designed to challenge the current level of inaccessibility within the fashion industry, MFA helps to make designers' shows accessible and inclusive to blind and low...
Matched membership breakthrough: Stop Killing our Rivers
Soil Association
A new fundraising product that engaged philanthropists and corporate partners to fund critically needed unrestricted income growth. Our breakthrough match funded membership product – backed by The Savitri Waney Charitable Trust – launched with the citizen facing “Stop Killing our Rivers” petition, part of a two stage conversion approac...
Communications Agency Of The Year
GOOD Agency
GOOD celebrates its 30th birthday this year, and in line with our mission to be a Force for Good, we have worked with our long-standing client Marie Curie across a number of campaigns, providing exceptional support and advice. As their creative agency, we were tasked with supporting their two most ambitious bids: becoming Morrisons’ c...
Helping charities unite lived and learnt experience to inspire action
Forster Communications
In early 2024, Forster managed media around Grenfell Testimony Week. We put claimants at the heart of all activity, helping them to share their stories while balancing this with the sensitivity required. It was powerful work, reinforcing the value of listening to those closest to the issues to inspire real change. Driven to go further,...
JAA: The media agency that realises charity's ambitions
John Ayling & Associates ( JAA)
In the last year we have successfully worked with over 50 charity clients to help them achieve their ambitions: from launching new brand identities to hitting challenging fundraising targets. Our reputation as the media agency for the third sector has seen fifteen new charities join our roster – from Amref and Butterfly Conservation to...
Kindred: Purpose-driven PR
Kindred
Kindred believes in the power of communications to make positive change. The agency has delivered purpose-led campaigns for clients for 25 years. This year, the team is proud to have made an impact across the third sector through work including: • A campaign for RSPCA which encouraged the public to become ‘firework-friendly neighbour...
Mobilising for dignity: a digital movement to change the law on assisted dying
Forward Action
Over a five-year partnership, Forward Action has supported Dignity in Dying to build one of the UK’s most effective grassroots movements for legal change. Together, we’ve recruited over 600,000 supporters and helped mobilise them into active campaigners – converting thousands into donors, advocacy participants and strategic influencers...
Stand’s work for Hospice UK: Hospice Care Week & This is Hospice Care
Stand
Stand is a strategic communications consultancy with extensive experience championing the third sector. We specialise in overlooked issues and undervalued audiences, using comms and behaviour change to inspire action and maximise impact for trailblazing organisations. Over the past year, we’ve partnered with charity Hospice UK on majo...
Communications Campaign Of The Year
'It does matter'
RNID
RNID’s ‘It does matter’ campaign aims to change negative attitudes and behaviours towards people who are deaf or have hearing loss. Research shows that over two thirds of deaf people and people with hearing loss have experienced negative attitudes or behaviours in the last year. And over half report that people tell them ‘It doesn’t...
Give An X
My Life My Say
Heading into the 2024 General Election, over 30% of 18-25 year olds were not registered to vote. Give An X sought to change that. By bringing politics to the spaces where young people already are, the Give An X campaign mobilised young people to register to vote, take up space and make their voices heard. Working with over 300 partners...
Learning Disability Week 2024
Mencap
In 2024 the Mencap media team wanted to do something for Learning Disability Week that would challenge perceptions and celebrate people with a learning disability, as part of our 'Do You See Me?' campaign. People with a learning disability told us they felt unseen, marginalised and ignored by society. Mencap joined up with The Big Issu...
Prescribe Life
MND Association
Motor neurone disease (MND) is a devastating neurological disease which leaves people unable to speak, eat and eventually breathe. There are no effective treatments. A third of people die within a year of diagnosis. Thanks to pioneering research, an exceptional new treatment, tofersen, has shown to slow and even stop disease progressi...
Real Talk- It's time to get real about prostate cancer
Prostate Cancer Research
Real Talk aimed to reduce racial health inequalities in prostate cancer – 1 in 4 Black men will develop prostate cancer and Black men are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men. Despite this, too few Black men know about their increased risk– and greater awareness could save lives. Real Talk engaged the Black commu...
Tell Your GP Instead
Bowel Cancer UK
Bowel Cancer UK’s ‘Tell Your GP Instead’ is an innovative behaviour change campaign, encouraging people with symptoms of bowel cancer to contact their GP and ask for an at-home test. Early diagnosis of bowel cancer is critical, when the disease is most treatable. More than 9 in 10 people survive bowel cancer when diagnosed at the earli...
‘MORE BALL GAMES’ Campaign
London Sport
London Sport – a charity dedicated to helping Londoners live longer, healthier, and happier lives through sport and physical activity – partnered with Saatchi & Saatchi on a pro-bono basis to launch the More Ball Games campaign in March 2025. The campaign seeks to unlock access to sport, play, and physical activity for everyone, regard...
Digital Innovation Of The Year
Can't Wait to Learn
WAR CHILD UK
‘Can’t Wait to Learn’ is War Child’s groundbreaking EdTech programme addressing the urgent global education crisis, particularly in conflict and emergency settings. With 72 million children out of school and another 127 million lacking foundational skills, this initiative harnesses the power of digital technology to provide quality, ef...
Count Your Carbon
Keep Britain Tidy
The Department for Education (DfE) has set an ambitious target to halve the ten million tonnes of CO₂e emitted by schools annually by 2032 by asking them to appoint a Sustainability Lead and develop a Climate Action Plan. But carbon calculation and reduction are complicated and schools are not experts. Plus, existing calculators are of...
Launch a Memory Tracker
RNLI
Launch a Memory is an in-memory product that allows supporters to donate and have a name displayed on a brand-new Shannon Class lifeboat. Supporters often have an emotional connection with the location where the boat is based, and it’s important for them to feel connected with the lifeboat and have opportunities to visit the station to...
Relate AI Chatbot
IE Brand and Digital
IE Digital developed a suite of three AI-powered tools to support separated co-parents, couples, and carers in reducing parental conflict and improving communication for children's wellbeing. The tools, funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) include the: Sounding-board bot, which analyses language in messages to suggest c...
Support after every miscarriage
Tommy's
1 in 5 pregnancies end in miscarriage. UK women and birthing people who have had a miscarriage are not entitled to NHS post-miscarriage care or support until they go through three miscarriages. This causes trauma, distress, and anxiety and leaves them with no place to turn for information or support.Tommy’s funds the National Centre fo...
Testimony 360: People and Places of the Holocaust
The Holocaust Educational Trust
Testimony 360: People and Places of the Holocaust is a ground-breaking free digital education programme from the Holocaust Educational Trust that combines interactive testimony with virtual reality, revolutionising access to survivor testimony and providing an invaluable opportunity for students learning about the Holocaust. Launched...
Marketing Campaign Of The Year
Ending Hunger Together - Play Your Part
Twelve Marketing
Hunger isn’t just a physical ache it’s a crisis playing out in kitchens and lunchboxes across the UK, every day. Rooted in the insight that “ending hunger” can feel overwhelming, Play Your Part turned a daunting issue into an empowering invitation. The campaign was designed to shift the narrative from hopelessness to hopeful action, g...
Invisible Poverty
Milton Keynes Community Foundation
The Invisible Poverty (Milton Keynes) campaign, launched by the Milton Keynes Community Foundation in November 2024, was a bold response to the deepening cost-of-living crisis. The campaign confronted harmful stereotypes by shining a light on the hidden realities of poverty in the city—poverty that too often goes unnoticed. To cut thr...
Ramadan 2025 Campaign
Islamic Relief UK
The Ramadan 2025 Campaign aimed to drive income including through digital channels – and to uplift a community facing adversity. It achieved ambitious targets: raising £15 million online, increasing unrestricted Zakat income by 5%, and growing non-Zakat unrestricted income by 10%. The campaign centred around the message “Trust in All...
RSPCA: R.E.S.P.E.C.T For Every Kind
John Ayling & Associates ( JAA)
The RSPCA’s For Every Kind rebrand made a bold impact, uniting branding, creative, and media agencies to revitalise the 200-year-old charity. Despite high awareness, the disconnect between understanding and donating held the charity back. The new brand put animal welfare and public involvement front and centre, launching with a TV and ...
Running the Railways Campaign for Centre 56
The Regenda Group
Centre 56, part of the Regenda Group, launched Running the Railways, a bold and emotionally resonant campaign that redefined its visibility and fundraising success. Alex Rigby’s extraordinary 109-mile run along the Merseyrail Network symbolised the journey families take towards lives free from abuse, transforming awareness into actio...
Sing it Home
Cornwall Air Ambulance
The Sing it Home campaign stands out as an exceptional candidate for Marketing Campaign of the Year, showcasing innovative communication strategies, emotive storytelling, and outstanding community engagement. Achieving an unprecedented feat, the campaign propelled Cornwall Air Ambulance into the official UK Album Charts at number 11 (a...
Fundraising Campaign
Cats Protection – Here for Every Cat’s Journey
John Ayling & Associates ( JAA)
In 2024, cat abandonment rose by over 30%, a heart-breaking correlation with the cost-of living crisis. Cats Protection faced an urgent challenge: raise vital funds to care for abandoned cats while continuing to embed its new brand identity just a year after launch. To achieve this, we created a fully integrated campaign that combined ...
Dogs Trust Happy Place
GOOD Agency
At Christmas and the immediate months that follow, the number of dogs being abandoned and relinquished is higher than at any other time of the year. Dogs Trust is on a mission to connect to a wider audience of dog owners and lovers and make the charity relevant at Christmas, channelling people’s love of dogs into engagement and support...
Launch a Memory 7 - Exmouth
RNLI
Launch a Memory was created as an in-memory product, where individuals donate to add a deceased loved one's name to a lifeboat. To help appeal to new audiences, and achieve our increasing fundraising targets, Launch a Memory 7 (LAM7) - Exmouth, saw new methods and a new approach to help appeal to an untapped ‘celebration’ audience, as ...
Light Up Christmas
Alzheimer's Society
Alzheimer’s Society’s 2024 Christmas Appeal, Light Up Christmas, was the most successful Christmas Appeal in the charity’s history. At a time of year that can be especially painful for people living with dementia - when the contrast between festive joy and personal struggle is most stark - the campaign invited the public to bring a lit...
Practical Action: turning disruption into long term resilience
Practical Action
Practical Action, a global development charity, builds sustainable lives and livelihoods on the frontlines of poverty and climate change, in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In the face of devastating USAID funding cuts that threatened clean water and renewable energy projects across climate-affected communities, Practical Action acted ...
The Big Rappel at The Empire State Building
The Outward Bound Trust
On Monday 6th May 2024 a fearless few made a rope descent of the world’s most famous skyscraper, The Empire State Building - to raise vital funds for Outward Bound. The Big Rappel was a challenge that had never been attempted before and may never be attempted again. 23 participants started their descent from the spectacular uppermost...
Small Charity Of The Year
Digit<all>
DIGITALL
Digit is a UK charity helping underserved young people and teachers develop vital digital skills while promoting climate action and wellbeing. With just two core staff, three freelancers and over 40 volunteers, our reach and impact far outweigh our size. Between June 2024 and May 2025, we reached 313,689 students and 6,515 teachers – ...
Lightyear Foundation
Lightyear Foundation is the UK’s only disabled-led charity solely focused on making science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) inclusive for disabled and neurodivergent young people. Among more than 250 STEM outreach organisations nationally, we are the only one doing this work with this focus - powered by lived experience and d...
Shared Interest Foundation
2024 marked the 20th anniversary of Shared Interest Foundation — a milestone for a small charity working alongside communities to build sustainable livelihoods. Since 2004, we have delivered 51 projects across 15 countries, supporting over 13,000 farmers and artisans to increase income, build resilience, and overcome barriers to opport...
Skylarks
Skylarks Charity
Skylarks is a parent-led charity supporting over 6,000 children and young people with disabilities and additional needs, along with their families. With a small team of part-time staff with lived experience and a fantastic team of volunteers, we deliver 9,000 inclusive activity sessions annually, including therapies, advocacy, and care...
TheMovement
theMovement
Founded in 2020, theMovement is a small, trauma-informed charity that empowers women facing extreme disadvantages—including homelessness, abuse, and mental health challenges—through free, safe, and supportive exercise sessions. Despite being led by just two part-time staff, the charity’s impact spans 10 London boroughs, working with ov...
Veterans With Dogs
Veterans With Dogs is a small (but mighty!) charity with a big impact, training and partnering Assistance Dogs with UK Armed Forces veterans experiencing complex mental health challenges such as PTSD. With a small core team and no dedicated fundraiser yet, the charity consistently delivers transformative outcomes for those it supports....
Medium Charity Of The Year
Encephalitis International
Founded in 1994, Encephalitis International is the global non-profit authority on encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). Our small but mighty team of 17 staff are based in Malton, North Yorkshire, where the charity was founded, but we have a global community. Worldwide one person is diagnosed with encephalitis every twenty seconds, ...
Fulham Reach Boat Club
Fulham Reach Boat Club (FRBC) is a sport-for-good charity creating life-changing opportunities on the River Thames for disadvantaged communities, prison residents, and people with disabilities. In 2023–24, FRBC reached more than 2,000 participants across its transformative programmes, using rowing as a tool for physical, mental, and so...
Muntada Aid
Agency Kode
Muntada Aid is a UK-based international humanitarian charity making a profound global impact with remarkable efficiency. With a core UK team of just six permanent staff, the charity delivers life-changing health, education, water, and emergency aid across some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. In the past year, Muntada Aid h...
National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society
Reducing the time to diagnosis for a form of inflammatory disease called axial Spondyloarthritis has seemed an impossible task. The average time has stubbornly stood at 8 1/2 years to the extent that it was in danger of being normalised. We have shown that this need not be the case. Our campaign Act on Axial SpA has resulted in local ...
The Bread and Butter Thing
The Bread and Butter Thing (Bread and Butter) is tackling two of the UK’s most pressing issues, food insecurity and food waste, whilst supporting over 100,000 of its members across 27 local authorities. Founded in 2016, Bread and Butter has grown into the UK’s largest B2C food redistribution charity, delivering 21.4 million meals in 20...
The Community Impact Initiative C.I.C.
The Community Impact Initiative (Cii) is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation that strives to achieve positive socio-economic change in disadvantaged communities through our innovative property regeneration cycle; 1. Property purchase: We purchase long-term empty homes in communities affected by the housing crisis, where resid...
The Listening Place
The Listening Place (TLP) provides free, regular, face-to-face support to people who feel suicidal. A team of 800+ carefully selected and trained volunteers deliver fortnightly 50-minute appointments at one of our three London sites (Pimlico, Kings Cross and Hammersmith). They offer a calm, non-judgmental and confidential space for peo...
Large Charity Of The Year
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
In 2024/25, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) delivered its most impactful year to date—raising a record-breaking £140 million to help transform the lives of seriously ill children. As the UK’s largest dedicated children’s health charity, we support ground-breaking research, vital equipment, family services...
Hospice UK
Hospices support people in their dying days, caring for people at the most vulnerable time of their lives, and supporting their loved ones. But they’re struggling with rising costs and stagnating funding. Many are running dangerously close to the margin, with many forced to make cuts. Hospice UK is the national champion for hospices. ...
North Devon Hospice
North Devon Hospice is a centre of excellence in palliative care, supporting over 2,000 people across our region last year alone. With over 200 staff and 500 volunteers, we deliver compassionate end-of-life care at home, in our Bedded Unit, and through outreach services, always placing patients and families at the heart of what we do. ...
Rotherham Hospice
Rotherham Hospice is a beacon of compassion, innovation and resilience in one of England’s most economically challenged boroughs. In 2024/25, we delivered outstanding care to over 2,100 patients and families while transforming our reach, visibility, and future sustainability. This year, we achieved our first-ever CQC Outstanding ratin...
Royal British Legion Industries
Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI), founded in 1919, is the UK’s most ambitious veterans’ charity, delivering housing, employment, and welfare support through a fully integrated model based in Aylesford, Kent. Employing over 200 staff, RBLI’s unique “veteran village” includes emergency accommodation, supported housing, and social e...
Shooting Star Children's Hospices
Shooting Star Children’s Hospices is a leading children’s palliative care charity that provides specialist care and support to families who have a baby, child or young person with a life-limiting condition, or whose child has died. We support over 1,000 families living across Surrey, south-west London and north-west London with special...
Small Charity Big Achiever
Ambition and Hope in Rural Ghana
Action Through Enterprise
This has been a year of firsts, a year of success against a challenging backdrop - a year of punching above our weight. We are a dynamic charity operating in the poorest part of Ghana, where people are hungry for change. Tackling poverty and creating opportunities through education, enterprise and inclusion, we work hand-in-hand with...
Bright Futures UK: Building Futures, Not Barriers
Bright Futures UK
Bright Futures UK is dedicated to ensuring that no young person falls behind in education due to long-term illness. Through bespoke educational and mentoring programmes, we provide tailored support to help young people regain confidence, skills, and opportunities. Operating on a small budget, we leverage community partnerships and volu...
Digital Education for <All>
DIGITALL
Digit may be small, but our impact is anything but. Founded in 2022 with just two permanent staff and three freelancers, this UK charity has already reached nearly 600,000 learners in 59 countries, bridging the digital divide for those most often left out: girls, minoritised groups, and young people from low-income backgrounds. Our sec...
Getting Better- a simple, cheap intervention that supports more and more seriously ill children.
Get Better Books
Could a printed book help seriously ill children facing an operation understand their treatment journey and alleviate procedural anxiety? This premise is at the heart of what this design intervention is about. Great Ormond Street Hospital in London is pre-eminent in paediatric medicine, but the communication between clinician and patie...
Street Lifesavers
StreetDoctors
StreetDoctors is a national charity of young healthcare volunteers, training young people affected by violence how to save the life of someone who has been stabbed or knocked out. Over the last year, the charity trained 16,571 young people as 'street doctors', equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to step forward ...
Warm in Winter gift bags
Small Acts of Kindness Trust
Small Acts of Kindness reduce loneliness and isolation for older and vulnerable people, with a particular interest in those who are cold in their homes. We do this by sourcing, packing and distributing practical gifts and information. Our aim is for every older person to feel warmer in their home, less lonely and more connected to thei...
Women’s Sport Trust: taking women’s sport from worthy to irresistible
Women's Sport Trust
The Women’s Sport Trust (WST) is a campaigning charity that has been at the forefront of driving change in women’s sport for over a decade. Dedicated to raising visibility and unlocking commercial investment of women’s sport, WST identifies barriers to growth and creates targeted initiatives to overcome them, driving meaningful change....
Financial or Procurement Excellence of the Year
Multiplying Charitable Impact
Stewardship UKET
In a year of profound organisational transformation, Stewardship’s finance team demonstrated resilience, innovation, and excellence. Amid a complete leadership transition—where the CFO became CEO, the Head of Finance stepped up as CFO, and a new Head of Finance was recruited—the team continued to deliver exceptional results while suppo...
NCEL CAMHS Small Grants Programme to address Health Inequalities
Compass Wellbeing CIC
Working with North Central and East London CAMHS Provider Collaborative (NCEL), in March we distributed £1.5m of funding to 51 service providers delivering community-based mental health support for children and young people across 13 boroughs. An innovative procurement approach generated 407 expressions of interest and 307 application...
Prism Finance Team
Prism the Gift Fund
Prism the Gift Fund’s (Prism) mission is to increase the flow of charitable funds into the sector. Prism offers a simple, streamlined solution for gifting funds in the UK and globally allowing donors to focus on giving without administrative burdens. Prism takes care of the compliance, governance and due diligence on distributing gifts...
Best Policy Initiative of the Year
FAITH: Family Assistance & Intervention for Trauma Healing
PTSD Resolution
FAITH (Family Assistance & Intervention for Trauma Healing) represents a pioneering shift in military mental health policy, recognising that trauma affects entire households, not just veterans. This groundbreaking initiative provides free, immediate access to trauma therapy for military families through a UK-wide network of 200 qualifi...
Make Dementia a Priority
Alzheimer's Society
Dementia, the UK’s biggest killer, is a growing health and social care crisis that touches millions yet is too often not prioritised in policy decisions. The Make Dementia a Priority (MDAP) programme exists to change that. Launched in July 2023, the MDAP programme is Alzheimer’s Society’s strategic initiative to drive long-term polic...
Rescue and Reform: transforming early education and childcare in England
Early Education and Childcare Coalition
Early education and childcare in England is characterised by underfunding, high parent fees, eligibility criteria that locks out the most disadvantaged children, and poor pay and conditions for the early years workforce. Cofounded in 2023 by over 30 organisations, the Early Education and Childcare Coalition unites the voices of par...
Restarting the asylum system
Refugee Council
The Refugee Council is the nation’s refugee charity. Together with community groups, partners and volunteers, we help people who have escaped war and persecution to rebuild their lives, integrate into communities, and play their part in Britain. In 2023, the former Government introduced the Illegal Migration Act. This amounted to a de...
The Better Bones Campaign
Royal Osteoporosis Society
Better Bones has been a successful campaign to close the osteoporosis treatment gap by winning Ministerial pledges to roll-out early diagnosis services (called Fracture Liaison Services), which are currently missing in half of Trusts. When implemented, we’ll prevent 74,000 catastrophic fractures within five years. During a 100-week pa...
Best Sustainability Initiative of the Year
Testing, testing… Sustainability through efficiency
Salocin Group
The RSPCA, the UK’s oldest and largest animal welfare charity, relies heavily on donations - especially during Christmas, a key fundraising period supporting its £140 million annual costs. Their 2024 Christmas campaign aimed to boost income while reducing environmental impact and wasted outreach. Already using sustainable materials, th...
Turning Surplus into Support: Co-op and TBBT’s Fresh Take on Food Redistribution
The Bread and Butter Thing
In 2024, Co-op partnered with food redistribution charity The Bread and Butter Thing (Bread and Butter) to pioneer a new initiative focused on reducing food waste and tackling food insecurity. Building on their long-standing relationship, the trial launched at Co-op’s Lea Green distribution centre targeted surplus items that were previ...
Visit a heat pump
Nesta
In April 2024 Nesta launched Visit a Heat Pump - a free, national service that hooks up heat pump owners with those interested in getting a heat pump. This one-of-a-kind service inspired and supported people across the country to visit a heat pump - with some going on to get a heat pump installed in their home. The service has 780 hea...
Partnership Awards
Charity Partnership of the Year
Free Legal Advice Centre
Toynbee Hall
Debt Free Advice is a pioneering coalition of charities dedicated to tackling financial hardship in London. Since 2006, we have provided free, impartial debt advice to over 500,000 individuals, ensuring that no one faces a financial crisis alone. Our multi-channel, community-driven approach has made a transformative impact, with over 1...
Preventing gaming and gambling harms
Ygam
Ygam, the UK’s leading charity dedicated to safeguarding young people from gaming and gambling harms, partnered with The Scout Association—one of the UK’s most iconic youth organisations. They joined forces for a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at young people with a passion for sport, helping them develop a deeper u...
Scottish Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence
Beatson Cancer Charity
In 2024, Beatson Cancer Charity (BCC) and Brain Tumour Research Charity (BTR) formed a partnership to address the funding gap in brain tumour research—brain tumours kill more people under 40 than any other cancer but receive only 1% of research funding. Their goal was to create a Scottish Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence, rai...
Support in pregnancy for Black and Black Mixed-Heritage women
Tommy's and FiveXMore
There are big differences in pregnancy outcomes by ethnicity. Black women and birthing people are at substantially higher risk of preterm birth and baby loss than White. They are 43% more likely to experience miscarriage and almost 50% more likely to experience stillbirth.This is why we at Tommy's prioritise resources on supporting Bla...
The National Brain Appeal and Rare Dementia Support's partnership to create the world's first Rare Dementia Support Centre
The National Brain Appeal
The National Brain Appeal and Rare Dementia Support are working in partnership together to create the world's first Rare Dementia Support Centre, establishing a centre of excellence for supporting those living with inherited, atypical and young-onset dementias, based in Woburn Square, London. Construction has begun in May 2025, followi...
Youth Welfare Programme
Migrant Help
The Youth Welfare Programme is a partnership of five organisations that provides vital support to young people seeking asylum in the UK. It was established following cross-sector research, following a series of suicides by young people in asylum accommodation, that identified this client group as especially vulnerable and in need of ad...
Corporate Partnership Of The Year - Small
Coding for Climate Action
DIGITALL
Digit is a UK charity helping underserved young people develop vital digital skills while promoting climate action and wellbeing. With a core team of just two, supported by freelancers and volunteers, we've reached nearly 600,000 people in 59 countries. Since 2022, Digit has partnered with Amazon Future Engineer (AFE) to deliver Codin...
Elephant Group and Newton Impact
The Elephant Group
The Elephant Group is a headteacher-led charity established in 2018 to harness the power of collaboration between school leaders, the education sector, and industry and charity partners to improve access to higher education and support social justice across the UK by providing non-selective state school students with resources, informa...
Euan's Guide x Baillie Gifford
Euan's Guide
Euan’s Guide is the disabled access charity making it easier, safer and more rewarding for disabled people to find and visit accessible places. EuansGuide.com is powered by real experiences, helping to create an accessible world for all disabled people. In May 2024, we were selected by Baillie Gifford employees as their Charity of the...
Ignite Hubs & Colt
Ignite Hubs
Ignite Hubs and Colt formed a partnership in December 2023, united by a shared mission to empower children and young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to access high-quality coding and STEM education, develop essential digital skills, and collectively tackle the digital divide. With Colt’s support, Ignite Hubs...
Improving Eye Care Services for People Affected by Homelessness
Vision Care for Homeless People
The partnership between Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) and Specsavers began in early 2023, built on a shared belief that everyone deserves access to quality eye care, regardless of housing status. The core aim of the partnership is to eliminate barriers to sight for people experiencing homelessness by dramatically expanding a...
Corporate Partnership of the Year - Medium
A Meal for a Meal (Dishoom and Magic Breakfast)
Dishoom Ltd
Since 2015, Dishoom has partnered with Magic Breakfast to ensure no child in the UK starts their school day too hungry to learn. Rooted in our founding principle of seva (selfless service), the partnership is built on a simple yet powerful pledge: for every breakfast served at Dishoom, we give a Magic Breakfast. This partnership has gr...
Centre 56 and Merseyrail
Centre 56 became one of Merseyrail’s chosen charities in January 2024 through its employee-led charity of the year programme. For over 50 years, Centre 56 has provided a safe haven for families in Kirkdale, offering specialist nursery care for children aged 2-12 who have experienced domestic abuse or crisis situations. At any time, th...
Just a Drop & PPHE Hotel Group: Driving transformational global change through scalable actions.
Just a Drop
PPHE Hotel Group’s Ecological Programme in partnership with Just a Drop represents a powerful, innovative collaboration that blends sustainability and philanthropy. By encouraging guests to opt out of daily housekeeping in exchange for a benefit, £1/€1 per night is donated to Just a Drop, supporting critical water and sanitation projec...
Sweet Briar Briar Marshes Project Partnership
Norfolk Wildlife Trust
In 2022, close to the centre of Norwich, Sweet Briar Marshes came up for sale: 90 acres of fen, rough meadow, grazing marsh, old hedgerows and young woodland, full of incredible wildlife. Long term corporate supporters Aviva generously agreed to enter a project partnership with Norfolk Wildlife Trust to acquire the site, preserving it ...
Track to the Future with the Rail Industry
The Talent Foundry
The Talent Foundry (TTF), in partnership with Network Rail and the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), is driving social mobility and strengthening the industry’s talent pipeline by inspiring and equipping young people from under-served communities with skills, knowledge, and confidence to pursue careers in rail. For five years, ...
Corporate Partnership of the Year - Large
Aviva and Citizens Advice
Aviva PLC
Aviva and Citizens Advice’s (CA) partnership aims to boost the financial resilience of individuals and communities across the UK. They partnered in late 2022 to increase the capacity of frontline advice services amidst a deepening cost-of-living crisis. The initial investment enabled CA to employ as many as 50 additional frontline staf...
Empowering Tea Communities in Kenya
ActionAid UK
Empowering Tea Communities in Kenya is a transformative three-year partnership between ActionAid, Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP), and its member companies Taylors of Harrogate, Lavazza, and Sainsbury’s, and the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA). This groundbreaking approach to tackling human rights issues in the tea sector brings toge...
Free Legal Advice Centre
Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall’s Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC), established in 1898 as the world’s longest continuously operating free legal service, provides expert legal assistance to vulnerable communities facing poverty-driven challenges. Over 125 years, FLAC has consistently bridged the justice gap, addressing issues from housing insecurity to em...
Plan International UK and AstraZeneca's Young Health Programme
Plan International UK
Since 2010, Plan International UK and AstraZeneca have partnered together to deliver the Young Health Programme (YHP), a unique global prevention programme to tackle the burden of non-communicable disease (NCD). Focused on health equity, the YHP empowers young people in eight countries globally to reduce their risk of NCDs through peer...
Real Talk- It's time to get real about prostate cancer
Prostate Cancer Research
Real Talk aimed to reduce racial health inequalities in prostate cancer –1 in 4 Black men will develop prostate cancer and Black men are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men. Despite this, too few Black men know about their increased risk – and greater awareness could save lives. Real Talk engaged the Black commu...
Space to inspire
Scouts
Scouts and the UK Space Agency aimed to ignite a passion for space in a new generation. By launching three brand new space badges and relaunching two others, the partnership aimed to engage at least 50,000 young people, inspiring future careers in space and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). Fifty activities were deve...
Ten years of fighting food waste with FareShare & Tesco
FareShare
Good food should never go to waste but, all too often, food that is perfectly good to eat ends up being thrown away. In the UK, 4.6 million tonnes of good to-eat food goes to waste in the food industry every year, enough for 10 billion meals.* Meanwhile, over 7 million adults in the UK are currently facing food insecurity.** To comb...
The power of backhaul: A groundbreaking collaboration in food redistribution
The Bread and Butter Thing
The partnership between Morrisons and The Bread and Butter Thing (Bread and Butter) is a pioneering collaboration tackling both food waste and food insecurity across the UK. Since 2021, Morrisons has donated over 10,500 tonnes of surplus food, equivalent to 25 million meals, enabling Bread and Butter to support thousands of low-income ...
Talent Awards
Frontline Team Of The Year
Creative Mentors
The Mighty Creatives
The Mighty Creatives’ (TMC) frontline team of Creative Mentors work directly with the most under-represented groups of young people in society, including those who are care-experienced, facing adversity, experiencing challenges or disadvantage. Working one-to-one with our young beneficiaries, they use the medium of artistic practice ...
GamCare's frontline team: Helpline, Online Services, Treatment and Community Outreach
GamCare
GamCare’s Frontline Team delivers vital, life-changing support to people across Great Britain affected by gambling harm. Spanning the 24/7 National Gambling Helpline, online services, and community-based outreach and treatment, the team offers a seamless, person-centred approach - from first contact to long-term recovery. This multidi...
Gaza Emergency Response Team
WAR CHILD UK
War Child’s Gaza Emergency Response Team - supported by our incredible occupied Palestinian Territories Country Programme, Regional Team, Humanitarian Response Team and colleagues from around the globe - has delivered extraordinary impact under the most extreme conditions. Comprising six dedicated Gaza-based professionals — Samah, Moh...
Haymill Respite Team
Certitude
The frontline team at Certitude’s Haymill Respite Support continually go above and beyond to provide a high-level of support to people who are often referred because of changes that are causing challenges in their lives. The team consistently provide person-centred support that helps people to do the everyday things that will allow mo...
Lifeline
Cats Protection
Cats Protection launched its support of domestic abuse survivors and their cats in 2004, in partnership with Dogs Trust under the Freedom Project. Lifeline (formerly Paws Protect) is Cats Protection's specialist cat fostering service for those fleeing domestic abuse. At Cats Protection, we offer this free and confidential fostering s...
Mentoring Prison Officers
Unlocked Graduates
Unlocked Graduates exists to break cycles of reoffending. Currently, prison is not a place which does that, with over 50% of prisoners released from short-term sentences reconvicted within 12 months. We believe the transformative relationships between prison officers and those in their care are key to this. Prison officers are the agen...
Working Chance frontline team
Working Chance
Working Chance is the UK’s only employment charity solely for women with convictions. Our frontline team, half of whom have lived experience, delivers a unique service that helps women build confidence and self-esteem and move towards or into employment, while also influencing employers to embrace inclusive hiring by bringing people wi...
Fundraising Team Of The Year
Adventure Race Japan Organising Committee
The Mission to Seafarers
Seafarers transport 90% of everything we use. They are an essential workforce, but their well-being and safety are often overlooked. Working in some of the world’s most challenging environments means that stress, poor mental health, and isolation are prevalent. To help fund The Mission to Seafarers (MtS) global work in support of crew ...
Fundraising
Pancreatic Cancer UK
The Fundraising and Engagement team at Pancreatic Cancer UK are determined. Determined to stop pancreatic cancer being overlooked, underfunded and left behind. They're determined to make more noise, inspire more action, drive more change and deliver more research breakthroughs. That determination has driven the team to increase incom...
Fundraising Team
Cornwall Air Ambulance
Our Fundraising Team have excelled through an ambitious aim of raising over £7.5 million as part of their annual target, but also an additional £2.85 million appeal to help buy a second life-saving aircraft for the people of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The Heli2 Heroes initiative, which offered supporters the chance to have their...
Fundraising Team
WAR CHILD UK
In 2024, War Child UK raised more than £13 million, £10.5 million of which was unrestricted income – the highest amount of unrestricted we have ever raised. We generated a surplus of £800k above our reforecast target, and our ROI was 3.6. We are amazingly proud of this as we currently have a very low base of support from regular giving...
Fundraising Team
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
In April 2021 and emerging out of the pandemic GOSH charity launched a fundraising strategy which set out an ambitious pathway to grow our sustainable net income. In particular the need to raise £300m for a Children’s Cancer Centre saw the launch of the biggest appeal in the charity’s history, the ‘Build it. Beat it’ appeal. In just...
Hospice UK Income Generation Team
Hospice UK
Hospice UK is the national champion for hospice care. No one else does what we do - and no other fundraising team has the same unique remit as ours. While only a small team, we wear two hats. We must raise income for ourselves - and as an umbrella body not directly providing services, this can be tricky in the current fundraising clima...
National Theatre Development Department
National Theatre
Our Development team has had an amazing year, delivering record-breaking results through exceptional collaboration. We raised £28.3 million—119% of target—in the second year of the Stories Start Here campaign, vastly exceeding all previous annual records. There are endless highlights, from securing the NT’s largest-ever gifts to del...
Rising Chief Executive
Abbas Najib - CEO
Better Communities Bradford
Abbas Najib, CEO of Better Communities Bradford (BCB), is a standout rising leader whose vision, strategy, and tenacity have transformed a grassroots charity into a cornerstone of community empowerment in just five years. Under Abbas’s leadership, BCB has significantly expanded its reach and impact, securing over £150,000 in grants in ...
Daniel Magson
First Steps ED
Daniel is open about his own experience with an eating disorder and recovery, talking on podcasts, radio and in corporate training days with ICO and Department of Health. In a short amount of time, he has transformed the culture of the organisation and set a bold, ambitious strategy to increase referrals and tackle stigma through PR, a...
Hannah Kayi Mason
InCommon
Hannah Kayi Mason is InCommon's first CEO, bringing extensive experience across creative arts, housing diversity, and social enterprise. As a strategic leader and cultural producer, she works at the intersection of inclusion, art, and community within both public and private sectors.InCommon is a charity bringing generations together. ...
Rising Star
Abena Bentum
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Since joining GOSH Charity, Abena has led a transformational shift in our committed giving programme, reversing a decline and building a robust and sustainable income stream. As Head of Committed Giving, she has grown our predictable monthly income, increased our active supporter base by 80%, and launched innovative fundraising product...
Aimee O'Connor-Ramsey
Centrepoint
Aimee O’Connor-Ramsey embodies Centrepoint’s values (energy, entrepreneurship, accountability, and humility) in everything she does. A passionate advocate and unwavering team player, she has transformed her personal experience of homelessness into a powerful tool for connection and change, exactly the type of leadership we need to end ...
Carlie Baker
Certitude
Since joining Certitude in 2021 as a Life enabler, Carlie has become a shining example of what great support looks like. Not only is her positive attitude infectious, but she is also loved by the people she supports, and her dedication is appreciated by family members, and colleagues too. Asked what keeps her motivated Carlie says, ...
Wes Cunliffe
Calan DVS
Since joining Calan DVS in September 2024, Wes has made a remarkable impact supporting male survivors of domestic abuse through the Compass Programme. This specialist initiative helps men process their experiences and rebuild confidence in a safe, supportive space. Wes brings deep knowledge of domestic abuse and its effects, alongside ...
Volunteer of the Year
Daniel Merritt
The Talent Foundry
At The Talent Foundry, our mission is simple: to help young people discover their amazing strengths and inspire them to dream big. After 16 years of delivering engaging employability programmes, we know that the key to unlocking social mobility is a shared purpose in partnership. This is why we work with thousands of industry volunt...
Liz Robinson
Cats Protection
Liz Robinson has spent over 20 years with Cats Protection and is now the co-ordinator at Deeside & Kincardine Branch in the North East of Scotland. She lives just outside a small village called Tarland with her three cats, Hope, Reggie and Daisy. Liz is a qualified chef and now runs her own cafe in Ballater on Royal Deeside in the Cair...
Marguerite Webb
Child Action Northwest (CANW)
Child Action Northwest (CANW) is a charity that supports thousands of children, young people, vulnerable adults and families across the North West and beyond, providing the support they need, when they need it, to navigate the challenges they face in their day-to-day life. The charity believes that everybody deserves the chance to reac...
Volunteer Team of the Year
Cardiomyopathy UK Support Group Leaders
Cardiomyopathy UK
Cardiomyopathy UK’s Support Group Leader team is a dedicated network of over 40 volunteers spanning all four nations of the UK. Most live with cardiomyopathy or support someone who does—bringing unmatched empathy, resilience, and authenticity to their roles. United by a shared belief that no one should face this condition alone. In O...
Hestia's Volunteering Team
Hestia
Volunteers are core to everything that Hestia does - helping us to achieve our mission of empowering people who have experienced crisis and trauma to find safety, hope and purpose. Volunteers complement our trauma-informed support (delivered by operational colleagues) by providing valuable opportunities to reduce isolation, build con...
Peaches Patient Voices
Peaches Womb cancer trust
More than 100 members have now joined the Peaches Patient Voices (PPV) team. Each one has their own unique lived experience of womb cancer and is at their own stage of the journey. They may be currently receiving treatment, living beyond treatment or a be family member of someone who has had the disease. PPV members generously and cour...
Recycle Bike Hub
Wessex Children's Hospice Trust
Naomi House and Jacksplace are hospices for children and young adults, providing specialist palliative care to more than 550 families in central Southern England. The Recycle Bike Hub team of volunteers helps raise funds for the hospices through a sustainable volunteering initiative. They have saved over 1,000 bikes from landfills by r...
Voice Board
Young Lives vs Cancer
At Young Lives vs Cancer, Voice is central to everything we do. We believe children, young people, and families with lived experience of cancer are best placed to shape our work and influence change across the system. Voice ensures their insights are heard, valued, and acted on—from shaping services to informing strategy. Our Voice Bo...
Volunteers
The Listening Place
The Listening Place is open 9am-9pm, seven days a week, across London, offering free, face-to-face appointments lasting 50 minutes for people who feel suicidal. Each and every appointment is delivered by a volunteer, and every shift is also supervised by a volunteer. In our experience, this model empowers our volunteers to make conside...
Young Healthcare Volunteers
StreetDoctors
A team of 232 young people volunteered as community educators to share lifesaving first aid skills with their communities across the UK, as part of StreetDoctors. These inspiring young people are healthcare students - trainee nurses, doctors, and paramedics - who went out to prisons, schools, and youth centres as part of the StreetD...
Unsung Hero
Caspar Bartington
Association for Project Management
Caspar Bartington has been at APM since 2017. In his time at the organisation, he has consistently gone above and beyond for his colleagues whilst never seeking or receiving any recognition. The main reason he deserves to be recognised is because of the extraordinary amount of compassion and leadership he showed over a year long period...
Charlotte Crowl
The Leanne Pero Foundation
Charlotte Crowl is the Project Lead at Black Women Rising with 17 years of lived experience, having faced lymphoblastic lymphoma as a teenager. She started as a volunteer and member before becoming a paid staff member. Charlotte now leads core projects, including two monthly face-to-face meet ups, three online support groups, new membe...
Ernestina Gan
Action Through Enterprise
Her empathy, her warmth, her honesty, her quiet confidence. We want to shout about Ernestina Gan, the unsung hero of Action Through Enterprise’s inclusion work in rural Upper West Ghana. In a place where disabled children are isolated, stigmatised and abused – mothers are often told to abandon their children in the bush - Ernestina has...
Helen Morris
Metabolic Support UK
Helen Morris has been a cornerstone of Metabolic Support UK for an incredible 24 years, dedicating her career to supporting patients and families affected by rare inherited metabolic disorders. As Support and Advice Manager at a small but vital charity, Helen provides compassionate, expert guidance to those navigating some of the most ...
Holly Dwyer
National Trust
Holly has been a dedicated and compassionate member of the Dinefwr team since 2015, profoundly impacting the community with her exceptional kindness and interpersonal skills. We regularly receive emails wanting to recognise the significant and lasting impression she has left with a visitor. The whole team at the National Trust would lo...
Janet Linley
Child Action Northwest (CANW)
Janet has been a foster carer as part of ‘Foster with CANW’ for 14 years. Her dedication and unstinting support offered to her foster children is absolutely extraordinary, particularly in the light of personal losses she has suffered. Working 24/7, Janet has transformed the lives of foster children. Katlyn, who came to live with her,...
Lucinda Johnson
Working Chance
Three years ago, Lucinda came to Working Chance as a beneficiary, seeking employment support after a conviction ended her career in childcare. Recognising her empathy and potential, an employment advisor encouraged her to apply for a role at the charity. She was hired as an employability coach and has since grown in confidence, taken o...
Charity Chair Of The Year
Daniel Valentine
Lovey Foundation UK
• Lovey Foundation (UK) was established in 2016 to rescue child-workers from the quarries, farms and forests of rural Ghana and put them into full-time education as “Lovey Scholars”. • Daniel joined as Chair in March 2023, and has been instrumental in helping the charity expand and reach more children than ever before. In 2023 the cha...
Derek Peaple
DIGITALL
From the day Digit began, Derek Peaple has served as Chair. But his leadership began long before. As a headteacher, he supported the development of a leading computing hub. But when national STEM initiatives fell short of what young people needed, it was Derek who encouraged Peter Marshman, our CEO, to step away and do it properly. Tha...
Sharon Green
The Leanne Pero Foundation
Sharon Marshall-Green is the Chair of the charity’s committee, bringing valuable lived experience of breast cancer, and a more recent diagnosis of thyroid cancer, to her role. Sharon joined as a member in 2019 and began volunteering in 2020 to facilitate the online support group, which led to her invitation to join the committee. Sharo...
Ted Hill MBE
Wetwheels Hamble
Ted Hill MBE: A Visionary Leader Transforming Our Governance In the realm of charitable organisations, true leaders are those who not only steer the ship but also navigate uncharted waters with a blend of dedication, vision, and compassion. Ted embodies this ideal of leadership, having transformed the landscape of our organisation sin...
Celebrity Charity Champion
Billy Monger
Comic Relief
To support Red Nose Day 2025, Comic Relief recruited racing driver and presenter Billy Monger to take on the 2024 IRONMAN World Championships—one of the world’s toughest single-day endurance events, featuring a 2.4-mile swim, 180km cycle, and a full marathon. After becoming a double-leg amputee in 2017 following a near fatal crash, Bil...
Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford
War Child UK
Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford became ambassadors for War Child in 2014 after a connection made by Carey’s brother Owain serving in Afghanistan. Since then, Carey and Marcus have passionately supported War Child through fundraising initiatives, introductions to their networks, and advocacy support, raising £15 million and contributi...
Efe Obada
London Youth
Efe Obada is a rare combination: a Londoner and an NFL star. He grew up in foster care calling London’s youth clubs his home. That’s why he couldn’t be a more perfect champion for London Youth, a charity on a mission to support and strengthen London’s youth organisations so young people have the opportunities and skills they need to su...
Lindsey Burrow
Leeds Hospitals Charity
Lindsey Burrow has shown extraordinary dedication to Leeds Hospitals Charity and the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Appeal since becoming a patron for the charity in 2022 alongside her late husband, Rob. Following Rob’s death in June 2024, Lindsey has continued to help fulfil his dream of a specialist MND centre in Leeds,...
Charity Chief Executive
Catherine Mole MBE
Dingley's Promise
Catherine Mole MBE, CEO of Dingley's Promise has worked tirelessly on behalf of Dingley's Promise to improve the lives of children with SEND in the early years. Since becoming CEO over 10 years ago she has transformed the charity, driving the expansion of our specialist nurseries for children under 5 with SEND, delivering a training pr...
David Cunningham
Kids Operating Room
David Cunningham is the Chief Executive of Kids Operating Room, a global health charity focused on providing safe surgery for children in low-resource settings across 40 countries. Since taking the helm in 2018, David has led the charity in creating annual capacity for almost 200,000 children to access critical surgical care. They stre...
Jason Elsom
Parentkind
Since becoming Chief Executive of Parentkind in December 2022, Jason has transformed the charity from financial crisis and declining relevance into a thriving national voice for parents. He reversed a £400,000 deficit on £1.5 million income, increasing revenue to £10 million in 2024, while launching innovative programmes that directly ...
Kris Healey
Spadework
Kris Healey first visited Spadework at the age of six. Now, as CEO, he leads the charity with compassion, authenticity, and an unshakeable commitment to inclusion, belonging, and community. Since becoming CEO in 2017, Kris has transformed Spadework into a dynamic, people-first charity that enables individuals to be more independent, f...
Leanne Pero
The Leanne Pero Foundation
Leanne Pero MBE is a multi-award-winning social entrepreneur, speaker, author, host and breast cancer survivor. She set up her dance company "The Movement Factory" when she was just 15 years old, since then she has successfully fundraised over half a million pounds to run community dance programs for young people all over London and ...
Mat Cottle-Shaw
Rotherham Hospice
In just his first full year as CEO of Rotherham Hospice, Mat Cottle-Shaw has delivered one of the most transformative periods in the organisation’s history. He has led the charity to its first-ever CQC Outstanding rating, launched a bold six-year strategy, stabilised finances despite economic pressures, expanded income generation, and ...
Communications Team Of The Year
Communications Team
Electrical Safety First
In the last 12 months we have secured more media coverage than ever. Forced deadly issues up the national agenda. Effected legislative change that will save lives. Increased our brand recognition by 5.7%. All achieved in-house. Our standout achievements: • Secured 3,584 individual pieces of media coverage. • Created 1.28bn opportuni...
Communications Team
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
The Communications Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) has delivered outstanding results in one of the most challenging and competitive years for the sector. We’ve transformed public awareness into meaningful action, including playing a key role in helping to raise a record-breaking £180m for our Build it. Bea...
Communications Team
WaterAid UK
In March 2025, WaterAid UK’s Communications Team delivered a landmark campaign uniting four high-impact activations to elevate brand awareness, and global influence, making the power of water impossible to ignore. These included the launch of the flagship climate and water report, the activation of the global brand campaign, high leve...
Engagement, Marketing & Communications
Pancreatic Cancer UK
Five years ago, Pancreatic Cancer UK was a little-known charity with big ambitions. As an overlooked cause, we needed to transform our public awareness, reach and income to support our ambitious strategic goal of doubling survival rates by 2028. Fast forward to 2025, and our awareness has transformed, we’ve more than doubled our gros...
Marketing and Communications
East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH)
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices’ (EACH) Marketing and Communications team consists of eight (seven-fte) talented, conscientious and motivated colleagues who worked tirelessly to develop brand strength and optimise public awareness last year. They had their own team mission, linking to the organisation’s strategic aims, and consistent...
PR & Comms
London's Air Ambulance Charity
London’s Air Ambulance Charity should win because its’ small but mighty Comms team has raised the bar for a regional charity’s public profile and brand recognition over 12 months. They have generated extensive positive press coverage, with excellent messaging and content across owned and paid channels giving multiple touchpoints among...
The Media and Strategic Communications Team
Refugee Council
The Refugee Council is the nation’s refugee charity. They help people who have escaped war and persecution to rebuild their lives, integrate into communities, and play their part in Britain. The Media and Strategic Communications Team (2024-25) have worked extensively to change the narrative on refugees in Britain. They have achieved ...