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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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, ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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