Hall Of Fame 2020
EXCELLENCE AWARDS
BEST CHARITY FILM
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Media Trust
Media Trust works in partnership with the media and creative industries to give charities, young people and marginalised communities a stronger voice. We pride ourselves on our sensitive and thoughtful approach to charity filmmaking. Media Trust's Volunteer Films is an innovative and award-winning short film project. We work with some ...
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Agency: Media Trust
Media Trust works in partnership with the media and creative industries to give charities, young people and marginalised communities a stronger voice. We pride ourselves on our sensitive and thoughtful approach to charity filmmaking. Media Trust's Volunteer Films is an innovative and award-winning short film project. We work with some ...
BIG IMPACT AWARD
THE MOCKINGBIRD PROGRAMME
The Fostering Network
The Fostering Network's Mockingbird programme is transforming the way foster care is delivered across the UK, improving life for fostered children and those involved in their care.The innovative - but intuitive model - builds supportive communities like extended families around children, the people who are important to them, and the pe...
BRAND DEVELOPMENT
STAMMA
British Stammering Association
Our new brand takes ownership of stammering. It shakes up the stuffy world of The King's Speech and places it in the mouths of real people who stammer. Our messaging visually stammers and blocks. The letters and colours are bold and noisy. We aren't ashamed.Historically used as a comic device, stammering is a subject mired in ignorance...
BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR
TRANSFORMING THE IDENTIFICATION AND CARE OF MODERN SLAVERY VICTIMS IN THE UK: THE VICTIM NAVIGATOR PROGRAMME
Justice and Care
Modern Slavery is a devastating and growing crime in the UK with the current estimate of victims to be in excess of 12,000 (UK Home Office). Victims, including children are exploited for labour, sex drug smuggling and more.In response, Justice and Care began a pioneering project designed in partnership with the Police Modern Slavery Tr...
CHARITY OF THE YEAR
REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CENTRE: BLACK COUNTRY AND BIRMINGHAM
Refugee and Migrant Centre
For over 20 years RMC has supported asylum seekers, refugees and other marginalised migrants to overcome barriers to their integration and settlement. They holistic service includes support in the areas of destitution and accommodation, health and wellbeing, education, training and employment, immigration and citizenship. Alongside cor...
COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY OF THE YEAR
SENSE SIGN SCHOOL
GOOD Agency
GOOD is a purpose-driven creative and strategy agency. We work with brands and charities to create a shared vision of a better world. We are passionate change-drivers, committed to making our work, work for everyone.Work that raises funds, makes profits and shifts brand dials. Work that makes real people feel valued, involved, inspired...
COMMUNICATIONS CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
#CLAPFOROURCARERS - AWARENESS AND ENGAGEMENT CAMPAIGN
Creative Clinic
Clap For Our Carers is a brand and cause that everyone has come to know during Covid-19. The #ClapForOurCarers campaign united the entire country, as communities locally and nationally came together Thursday evenings at 8pm for the shared experience of communal applause in appreciation of the selflessness, bravery and dedication of fro...
DIGITAL INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
EQUAL WORLD CAMPAIGN APP
Sightsavers
Our Equal World campaign app, developed specifically to allow us to gather petition signatures from people in remote areas or without access to the internet, who would ordinarily be excluded from taking part in a digital campaign action. The app, which supported our Equal World campaign for the rights of people with disabilities to be ...
ENTERPRISE AWARD
SAHAN CARES C.I.C
Sahan Cares C.I.C
Sahan Cares is a family-run social enterprise with a unique business model. Its success over eight years is testament to the idea that business acumen can go hand-in-hand with social responsibility. From its roots as a support group for disenfranchised BAME women, the West London company has grown into a multi-faceted business with dou...
FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
THE 2.6 CHALLENGE: SAVING THE UK'S CHARITIES
Studio Republic
Following the cancellation of thousands of fundraising events, leaders from the country's biggest mass-participation sports events, and agencies Studio Republic and LiveWire Sport devised a pro bono campaign to raise urgent funding for as many UK charities as possible.The 2.6 Challenge was created because it was a denomination of the m...
FUNDRAISING EVENT
MARKETING CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
WITHOUT YOU
Anthony Nolan
In May 2019, Anthony Nolan launched a high-impact marketing campaign, showing one woman's search for a lifesaving match: 'Without You'. The campaign aimed to increase brand awareness and comprehension among women aged 30+ and ultimately inspire them to support us financially.This audience is key for our charity, comprising some of our ...
SMALL CHARITY, BIG ACHIEVER
ENDING THE MOTHERHOOD PENALTY
Pregnant Then Screwed
Did you know that 54,000 women are pushed out of their jobs every year just for falling pregnant? It's quite possible that you don't know; just 1% of these claims end up at employment tribunal, and of those that do 99% result in a settlement and a non-disclosure agreement, preventing that woman from ever speaking out.Pregnant Then Scre...
PARTNERSHIP AWARDS
CHARITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE YEAR
THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT LINE FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE
Surviving Economic Abuse
Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. Money Advice Plus (MAP) has been delivering a national debt advice and casework service to survivors of domestic abuse since 2010.Giving financial guidance in the context of domestic abuse has safety ...
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP OF THE YEAR
END YOUTH HOMELESSNESS AND YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY RENT DEPOSIT SCHEME
End Youth Homelessness
110,000 young people asked local councils for help last year because they faced homelessness. End Youth Homelessness (EYH) is a national movement of local charities that have joined forces to solve the UK youth homelessness crisis. EYH teamed up with Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) to fulfill a shared priority to provide a solution to...
TALENT AWARDS
CELEBRITY CHARITY CHAMPION
AL MURRAY
DKMS Foundation
AL MURRAY, one of the UK's most popular comedians, is working with DKMS to urge new potential lifesavers to sign up to the blood stem cell register. We launched a major media campaign with Al in November 2019 where he spoke of his work with DKMS on a number of high profile shows including Good Morning Britain, BBC News, The Victoria De...
CHARITY CHAIR OF THE YEAR
TIM FELL
British Stammering Association
Under Tim Fell's stewardship the British Stammering Association has transformed from a slightly stuffy, inward focussed organisation to a bold and confident charity, Stamma, with a renewed purpose, to change public understanding of what it means to stammer.The organisation has blossomed over the last year, with increasing levels of vol...
CHARITY CHIEF EXECUTIVE
EMMA RATZER MBE
Access Community Trust
Emma Ratzer became CEO of Access Community Trust in 2012, following a five-year period of progression within the organisation.Taking the helm during adverse times for the Third Sector, following years of austerity policies and significant cuts in funding did not phase Emma at all. A strategy was carefully developed that would not only ...
COMMUNICATIONS TEAM OF THE YEAR
PREGNANT THEN SCREWED COMMUNICATION AND PR TEAM
Pregnant Then Screwed
Pregnant Then Screwed has just two employees - the founder and an operations manager. We are entirely led by volunteers with lived experience of maternity discrimination. The engine room of that movement is our comms team.We generate top tier national coverage weekly. We have been able to secure over 230,000 signatures for our petition...
FINANCE TEAM OF THE YEAR
SJOG FINANCE TEAM
SJOG
SJOG was a charity that had lost its way. It was closing services and in 2018 made a £1.9million loss on £15 million income. The finance team were mainly temporary agency staff.When Leanne Welford joined as Chief Finance Officer at the end of 2018 she set about creating a clear team structure with existing temps either recruited into r...
FUNDRAISING TEAM OF THE YEAR
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS TEAM
WaterAid
The Corporate Partnerships team at WaterAid UK are an innovative, sector-leading team that are responsible for developing and implementing WaterAid's Corporate Partnership strategies by building relationships with the private sector to support WaterAid's work. WaterAid's mission, which aligns with Sustainable Development Goal Six, focu...
RISING CHIEF EXECUTIVE
ANDY FLETCHER
Together for Short Lives
Andy Fletcher is a children's palliative care legend. A man with the passion and vision to build a better future for the UK's most vulnerable families caring for terminally children. A world where families can stop fighting and start living and make the most of every moment with their child, whether that's for years, months or days.And...
DR NICOLA SHARP JEFFS
Surviving Economic Abuse
Our nomination highlights the success and determination of Dr Nicola Sharp Jeffs in founding and developing the charity Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA). Nicola founded SEA in 2017, and it is the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. Our nomination recognises Nicola's dedicatio...
RISING STAR
MADDY FORD
The Change Foundation
The Change Foundation met Maddy in 2016 when she became a participant in the first year of Team Habana, an experiential learning programme designed to develop young people's confidence and leadership behaviours. We were incredibly impressed with Maddy's commitment to Team Habana and her coaching and mentoring skills and abilities and a...
UNSUNG HERO
CHRIS, IWF HOTLINE MANAGER
Internet Watch Foundation
The IWF exists on the front lines of the fight against child sexual abuse imagery online. Chris joined our team in 2012 as our Hotline Manager, quietly taking on one of the hardest jobs in the world. Every day, Chris diligently reviews countless images and videos of children suffering sexual abuse for removal, whilst recruiting, traini...
GREG SILVESTER
Special Olympics Great Britain
Greg Silvester is an extraordinary man who has voluntarily spent over 30 years working for a more inclusive society, trying to break down barriers for people living with, and the stigma attached to, intellectual disabilities. Helping others in any way he can. He is truly an inspiration. From the age of 10, when Greg began training and ...
VOLUNTEER TEAM OF THE YEAR
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Holocaust Educational Trust
We are privileged to work with 73 Holocaust survivors who volunteer their time to speak to schools, universities and other settings and ensure that young people understand the human stories of the Holocaust. These dedicated volunteers are all over the age of 75 and most are in their late eighties and nineties, yet despite their age the...