Hall Of Fame 2023
Excellence Awards
Best Charity Film - Small
Gemma's Story
media co-op
Gemma’s Story gives a voice to victims of coercive control and stalking. Leading researchers Prof. Nancy Lombard and Dr. Katy Proctor from GCU didn’t want the data they’d gathered on the lived experience of victims as they progressed through the criminal justice system to gather dust on academics’ bookshelves. They wanted to make sure ...
Best Charity Film - Medium
We Built This Town
Don't Panic and The Kite Factory
Drawing inspiration from Tearfund’s unique approach - to teach, this film flips the traditional charitable appeal on its head. The voice over and film begin as we’ve seen a million other times in these charitable TVC’s; telling the viewer about the community on screen.However, in this film, the community takes matters into their own ha...
Best Charity Film - Large
From That Moment
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice
From That Moment, a campaign film by Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice in partnership with world-renowned photographer, Rankin, shows the individuality of the families we support, whilst uniting them under one moment they have all experienced - that moment they were first told that their child was seriously unwell. The moment everything ch...
Best Service Delivery Innovation
Creative Mentoring
The Mighty Creatives
The Mighty Creatives exists to fight for the creative voices of children and young people in need – those who too often go unheard. We do this by providing one-to-one Creative Mentoring for children and young people (CYP) aged 5-25 who are in need, are care-experienced, or in vulnerable circumstances. Put simply, it’s a tried-and-teste...
Best Use of Social Media
The Mix’s TikTok Services: a brand-new channel for providing vital support to young people
The Mix
The Mix has launched an innovative new TikTok channel to provide vital information, support and services to young people directly on the platform they most use. We engaged a wide range of staff teams, partners, volunteers and young people to help overcome the challenges faced when launching a new channel. This allowed us to co-design, ...
Big Impact Award
Global Blood Heroes
The Who is Hussain Foundation
In response to the critically low blood supplies globally, specifically in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Global Blood Heroes campaign sought to address this issue. Inviting global populations to unite together to undertake the ultimate act of selflessness - donating blood - this campaign took place on 27th August 2022, af...
Brand Development
Speech and Language UK rebrand
Speech and Language UK
Children’s charity Speech and Language UK (formerly I CAN), went through a major rebrand, led by brand consultancy Studio Texture, resulting in a new name, brand strategy and identity. This was part of the charity’s wider ambition to reach more of the 1.7 million children who have challenges with talking and understanding words. Partic...
Breakthrough of the Year
Service delivery transformation at Carers in Bedfordshire
Carers in Bedfordshire
Unpaid carers look after someone who couldn’t manage without them. For example, a child with a learning disability or a parent with dementia. Being a carer can be rewarding but challenging. Carers in Bedfordshire (CIB) offers tailored support making life easier for carers. Momentum had built at CIB since 2020, driven by a new CEO’s ...
Communications Agency of the Year
89up
89up is the global agency for non-profits. We campaign for great causes, build technology, develop strategies to tackle complex problems and inspire action. The idea for 89up came when our founder was in Belarus at the funeral of a murdered dissident and discovered that Bell Pottinger was working for the dictatorial government. Auto...
Communications Campaign of the Year
March Of The Mummies
Pregnant Then Screwed
At Pregnant Then Screwed, we campaign tirelessly against the penalties that mothers face due to systemic cultural and institutional discrimination during pregnancy and motherhood. We have the second most expensive childcare sector in the developed world, and we have the third worst-ranking maternity pay and the least generous paternity...
Digital Innovation of the Year
Engaging children in charity fundraising
SuperKind.Org
Children can change the world. They are caring and curious, enthusiastic and empathetic. Sometimes they just need the tools. That’s what SuperKind is for. SuperKind is the world’s first ever cross-charity fundraising platform designed just for kids and their schools. We differentiate from other fundraising platforms in that we proce...
Finance or Procurement Excellence
Financial Excellence
Royal Osteoporosis Society
The Royal Osteoporosis Society has restructured its financial model to overcome the challenges posed by lumpy legacy income to financial planning and sustainable growth. The new financial strategy aligns core costs of the charity with a legacy threshold based on a five-year rolling average of legacy income. Over-performance against the...
Fundraising Campaign
Bookmark Box for Ukraine
Bookmark Reading Charity
The war in Ukraine has had a devastating impact on the world, but on none more so than the millions of children that were torn from their way of life, leaving behind their homes, loved ones, education, and belongings. Bookmark wanted to offer support to the thousands of Ukrainian children and their families arriving in the UK and in...
Marketing Campaign of the Year
Osteoporosis risk checker campaign
Royal Osteoporosis Society
Delays in diagnosis and low public awareness causes 90,000 people with osteoporosis every year to miss out on the therapies needed to avoid life-changing fractures. These fractures are the fourth greatest cause of premature death and disability. Yet fracture risk is easily estimable with simple enquiries about family history and lifest...
Small Charity, Big Achiever
Pregnant Then Screwed
We are a small team that packs an almighty punch. In the eight years since we launched we have become a force to be reckoned with, changing legislation, improving lives and raising awareness of the motherhood penalty. At Pregnant Then Screwed, we campaign tirelessly against the penalties that mothers face due to systemic cultural and...
Small Charity of the Year
The motherhood Plan
Pregnant Then Screwed
We are a small team that packs an almighty punch. In the eight years since we launched we have become a force to be reckoned with, changing legislation, improving lives and raising awareness of the motherhood penalty. In the last 12 months, we have achieved: 1,178 mentions of our work in national and international media. We supported...
Medium Charity of the Year
Royal Osteoporosis Society
The Royal Osteoporosis Society has repositioned itself as a key influencer on the national stage. The charity is tackling head-on the culture of passivity and defeatism around osteoporosis, as well as ageist stereotypes that have caused an eye-watering treatment gap. The charity made brave sacrifices to scale up its impact during th...
Large Charity of the Year
Aberlour Children's Charity
Aberlour
This year Aberlour realised it's ‘Being Brave’ Strategy. The cost-of-living emergency demanded Brave responses for children and families. Our Board, Staff and volunteers stepped up and were:- Brave in our Emergency Response – for the first-time using TV to drive our most successful winter appeal, raising nine times our target donation ...
Partnership Awards
Charity Partnership of the Year
Turkiye/Syria Earthquake Initiative
Turkish Cypriot Community Association, Cyprus Islamic Association, Turkish Police Association, HIS Church, and Arsenal Foundation
On 6 February 2023, eastern Turkey and northern Syrian were hit by the most powerful earthquake in the region for over 80 years. It was quickly followed by a further earthquake and hundreds of aftershocks. By the end of February 59,000 deaths were confirmed and an estimated 14 million people were affected by widespread damage, in an ar...
Corporate Partnership of the Year
Persil Dirt is Good Schools Programme
Global Action Plan and Unilever
Environmental charity Global Action Plan (GAP) has worked in partnership with Unilever’s largest laundry detergent brand Dirt Is Good – known as Persil, OMO, Ala, Breeze, Skip & Surf Excel to consumers around the world - on the Dirt is Good Schools Programme.The partnership began by publishing ground-breaking new research that explored...
Talent Awards
Celebrity Charity Champion of the Year
Claire Richards
Marie Curie
Our team first met singer Claire Richards (of Steps fame) in 2019. Claire told us she had been aware of the charity for a very long time, and we had cared for her grandfather at the end of his life. We invited Claire to visit our London hospice, to learn about our work, and were amazed at how engaged she was. What we hadn’t realised wa...
Charity Chief Executive of the Year
Lindsay Boswell CBE FCIOF
FareShare UK
Lindsay Boswell CBE, CEO FareShare, has driven the organisation’s growth in response to this huge demand. Since he joined in 2010, FareShare has gone from working with 600 charities and providing enough food for 36 million meals a year to 8,500 charities (1,316% increase), providing 128 million meals a year (255% increase) – that’s eno...
Charity Chair of the Year
Janine Hawkins
Trees for Cities
Janine Hawkins has been the fundamental driving force behind Trees for Cities since 2010, initially providing external strategic support before becoming a Trustee in 2014, and Chair of Trustees in 2017. Specific achievements that have resulted directly from Janine’s input include supporting the development of four strategic plans sp...
Communications Team of the Year
Media Team
British Red Cross
It’s been a remarkable year for the British Red Cross media team. The last 12 months has seen the frequency and scale of global crises continue to increase. Emergencies across the UK and around the world meant the team was responding to multiple crises at once, playing a vital role raising awareness of the organisation’s work helping p...
Frontline Team of the Year
Refugee Council Frontline Services
Refugee Council
Refugee Council’s frontline team empowers refugees to live safe and fulfilling lives contributing to the UK. They deliver services for resettled refugees, people granted refugee status, people seeking asylum and separated children, across integration, employment, therapy, immigration casework, age disputes, social and educational activ...
Fundraising Team of the Year
Engagement Team
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance
As the country emerged from Covid, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance's Fundraising Team was going through a challenging period. High staff turnover meant the charity was carrying significant gaps. Income was proving elusive and staff were stretched trying to make target, with little capacity for innovation or long-term thinking...
Rising Chief Executive of the Year
Gavin Crane
Band of Builders
Band of Builders (BoB) was born in 2016 when its founder took to social media to ask for help renovating the home of a close friend and colleague who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The response from tradespeople across the UK saw the project completed and demonstrated what can be achieved when the industry stands together. ...
Rising Star of the Year
Lasith Ranasinghe
Make a Medic
Make a Medic produces high-quality medical education resources and uses the funds generated from subscription fees to create grants for healthcare initiatives in LMICs. Three maxims underpin our activities: 1. Cost should not be a barrier between medical students and outstanding resources. 2. We aim to assist the training of medic...
Unsung Hero of the Year
Paul Burns
Good Shepherd Services
The Good Shepherd has a long history spanning over 50 years of helping the most disadvantaged people in Wolverhampton. Historically, our work has been around crisis intervention but we have developed our services to include preventing people from becoming homeless alongside supporting recovery from mental health and addiction. Our r...
Volunteer of the Year
Fatuma Ibrahim
Refugee Council
Fatuma Ibrahim fled war-torn Somalia in 2002 as a young single mother of 2. It took 5 years for her and her young family to get their official rights to remain giving her little access to support and services in this period. Despite her personal situation with responsibility for raising two young children, and the challenges of integra...
Volunteer Team of the Year
Scouts at the Lying-in-State of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
The Scout Association
In September 2022, 165 young Scout volunteers took part in Operation Feather, the plan to support the queue at the Lying–in-State of their Patron, Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Their role was to look after the welfare of the public and keep up spirits. In the event, the team went far beyond that. They worked day and night, often...