INNOVATION
CHALLENGE EVENT OF THE YEAR
Shortlist: To be announced on the night
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
25 years of Make a Difference
Barclays
Client: Multiple partners
For 25 years, Barclays’ Make a Difference campaign has been the bank’s flagship volunteering initiative, uniting colleagues across the company to support the communities where they live and work. What began in 2000 as a single UK-based volunteering day has grown into an international, months long movement involving thousands of colleag...
BGF Employee Engagement Initiative
BGF
Client: BGF Foundation
BGF’s Employee Engagement Initiative is a structured Social Impact Days programme, delivered through the BGF Foundation, that embeds charitable engagement into the firm’s culture. Every employee receives two paid days annually to contribute skills-based volunteering, pro bono advice, mentoring and beneficiary-facing support. The initia...
Ethicall’s Fundraiser of the Year & Team Member of the Year Scheme
Ethicall
Client: Multiple Charities
Ethicall is a Charity Telephone Fundraising Agency, founded on making the world a better place! For 18 years our focus has been 100% on fundraising, raising over £158 million for our charity partners! It’s in our DNA running throughout the organisation every day!In addition to this, as a business we have also donated £1.5 million, much...
IHP x Cencora Essential Health Pack (EHP) Volunteer Programme
Cencora
Client: International Health Partners UK
International Health Partners (IHP) and Cencora have created a high impact, employee driven volunteering initiative that directly strengthens global access to essential medicines. Through Cencora’s UK logistics arm, Alloga, employees regularly volunteer their time to pack IHP’s Essential Health Packs (EHPs) — portable pharmacies used i...
MARKETING PARTNERSHIP OF THE YEAR
Fernham Homes and Spadework
Fernham Homes
Client: Spadework
Fernham Homes has created a marketing partnership that has transformed awareness, engagement and trading success for Spadework. By placing a Spadework hamper in every new home they sell, Fernham Homes has built our charity into the heart of the home-buying experience. This initiative has introduced hundreds of residents to our site, tu...
Gen_a_Mo
Google UK
Client: Movember
In November 2025, Movember and Google UK launched Gen_a_Mo, a cutting-edge campaign merging generative AI with global health activism. By partnering with Google Gemini, we created the world's first AI-powered ‘try-before-you-grow’ experience, allowing participants to test-drive Mo’s before pic king up a razor. This solved a foundationa...
Give Back Friday 2025 – Mango Means More
Tropic Skincare
Client: UWS
Since 2019, Tropic has partnered with UWS to ensure children in remote communities can access quality education. In 2025, Tropic’s flagship Give Back Friday transformed a peak retail moment into a purpose‑led fundraising and awareness movement, centring the return of its most‑loved Wild Mango fragrance - a symbol of generosity, abundan...
Our House is Not a Home
HSBC UK
Client: Shelter
The ‘Our House is not a Home’ campaign was created to highlight the reality of homelessness and the public’s understanding of it. Tens of thousands of families are the hidden homeless, living in unsuitable temporary accommodation that strips away safety and stability. They may have a house, but they do not have a home. That hidden real...
smart x Create art cars
smart UK
Client: Create
In 2025, leading charity Create, which uses the creative arts to connect, empower, inspire and upskill society’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable people, partnered with the UK branch of global automotive brand, smart UK (“smart”), to deliver an inspiring nationwide programme exploring the theme ‘Open Your Mind’. Taking part in a serie...
The Endfluencers'
Superdrug
Client: Marie Curie
The Superdrug and Marie Curie ‘Endfluencers’ campaign was a high impact PR moment aiming to champion the voices of young people living with a terminal diagnosis. Centred around a powerful short film, the campaign followed three content creators, Abi Feltham, Jazz Turner and Iain Ward, with a combined following of 8.6 million.Through li...
PROJECT OF THE YEAR
Shortlist: To be announced on the night
CHARITY PARTNERSHIPS
AUTOMOTIVE & TRANSPORT
Shortlist: To be announced on the night
BANKS & FINANCIAL SERVICES
Age UK & Lloyds Banking Group: Project Olaf
Lloyds Banking Group
Client: Age UK
Since 2022 Lloyds Banking Group and Age UK have partnered through Project Olaf, a pioneering initiative that repurposes seized criminal assets to protect those most vulnerable to scams. With many millions of pounds in frozen criminal assets predicted to be locked away in UK banks, Lloyds Banking Group remains the only financial institu...
Breakfast Bookstars
Arch Insurance International
Client: National Literacy Trust & Magic Breakfast
Breakfast Bookstars is a charity partnership with Arch Insurance which forms part of the National Literacy Trust’s Libraries for Primaries campaign and Magic Breakfast’s fuel for learning initiative. Our objective is to significantly reduce educational inequality in the UK's most financially disadvantaged communities. The partnership ...
Convex Seascape Survey
Convex Insurance
Client: Blue Marine Foundation
The UN calls the ocean ‘the world’s greatest ally against climate change’ because it absorbs 30 percent of all human-originating carbon dioxide emissions. It is the world’s largest carbon sink and plays a crucial role in stabilising our climate. As greenhouse emissions grow, the health of the ocean and its ability to alleviate climate ...
Dementia UK and Nationwide Fairer Futures
Nationwide Building Society
Client: Dementia UK
As part of Fairer Futures, Nationwide’s social impact strategy, Nationwide and Dementia UK formed a transformational partnership in 2024 to address the challenges faced by families affected by dementia. With one in two people expected to be impacted and strained care systems leaving many without adequate support, the partnership set a...
Howden x Maggie's two-year charity partnership
Howden
Client: Maggie's
Howden's partnership with Maggie's is a national, people-powered collaboration designed to help more people live well with cancer - emotionally, practically, and financially. Chosen by UK colleagues, the partnership brings together Howden's people-first culture and industry reach with Maggie's trusted, evidence-based support for people...
Investing in Financial Futures
Aberdeen Group plc
Client: Money Ready (previously MyBnk)
Since 2022, Aberdeen Group has been supporting Money Ready’s young adult work, providing financial education to 16-25-year-olds in vulnerable circumstances across the UK. This partnership has enabled Money Ready to strengthen our work with young adults from priority groups, particularly those at risk of homelessness, those facing syste...
NatWest Thrive
Client: National Youth Agency
NatWest and the National Youth Agency (NYA) formed their partnership in 2023 with a shared commitment to ensure every young person, regardless of background or circumstance, has the confidence, skills and self‑belief to shape their future. Together we created NatWest Thrive, a programme responding to the reality that many young people ...
Virgin Money partnership with Mind and Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH)
Virgin Money
Client: Mind and Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH)
Our partnership started in January 2024 to address the two-way link between financial pressures and mental health problems. With research showing that almost half of UK adults experience disrupted sleep or overwhelm due to money worries, the partnership set out to create large scale social change by improving awareness, strengthening s...
CONSUMER GOODS/FOOD & BEVERAGE
Asda Tickled Pink
Asda
Client: Breast Cancer Now and CoppaFeel!
Asda Tickled Pink is one of the UK’s longest-running and most impactful corporate-charity partnerships, spanning 30 years and demonstrating how sustained collaboration can deliver social change. Launched in 1996, the partnership between Asda, Breast Cancer Now and CoppaFeel! works to reduce the impact of breast cancer through awareness...
Mars & Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Mars
Client: Battersea
This is not simply a fundraising partnership — it is one that changes outcomes for pets and the people who love them.Together, Battersea and Mars have built a powerful partnership for how business and charity can work as one to deliver lasting social impact. By combining Mars’ ambition to create A Better World for Pets with Battersea’s...
FASHION & RETAIL
Asda and BBC Children in Need
Asda
Client: BBC Children in Need
Asda and BBC Children in Need (BBC CiN) have built one of the UK’s most longstanding and successful charity/retail partnerships, celebrating 25 years of collaboration in 2025. Since the partnership began in 2000, Asda customers, colleagues, and suppliers have raised over £41 million, supporting more than 380,000 children and young peop...
Asda Tickled Pink
Asda
Client: Breast Cancer Now and CoppaFeel!
Asda Tickled Pink was created after colleagues called for the business to support breast cancer charities. For 30 years, Asda colleagues, customers and suppliers have given their time, platforms and voice to raise funds and awareness, making Tickled Pink one of the UK’s longest-running retail-charity partnerships. Today, the partnershi...
Dunelm and Age UK COTY Partnership 2024-2026
Dunelm (Soft Furnishings) LTD
Client: Age UK
In 2024, Dunelm and Age UK launched a three-year strategic partnership to create communities that feel like home for older people, uniting in a shared ambition to bring comfort and connection back into the lives of the nearly 1 million older people who often feel lonely and the 1.9 million living in poverty. The partnership focuses on ...
GO Outdoors with Scouts
GO Outdoors
Client: The Scouts UK
This partnership stands out as a model of what meaningful, measurable and mission driven collaboration should look like. GO Outdoors and Scouts have not only aligned our values—we have translated them into sustained, life changing action for hundreds of thousands of young people. Through financial investment, practical support, expert ...
Mamas & Papas and Tommy’s - partnering to provide hope and support for every pregnancy journey
Mamas & Papas
Client: Tommy's - the pregnancy and baby charity
Mamas & Papas, a national award winning baby and nursery retailer, partnered with Tommy’s, the UK’s leading pregnancy and baby charity, to transform how the retail sector supports parents affected by baby loss. With half of UK adults having experienced baby loss or knowing someone who has, the partnership aims to ensure customers are m...
Marie Curie, Superdrug and Savers
Superdrug and Savers
Client: Marie Curie
Superdrug and Savers, two of the UK’s leading retailers, have been in partnership with Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity, since 2013. The partnership sits at the heart of the retailers’ CSR agenda, ‘Doing Good Feels Super’ and is driven by a shared mission to change how we experience, talk about and support end of life....
Superdry x Newlife Partnership
Superdry
Client: Newlife The Charity for Disabled Children
Superdry has partnered with Newlife The Charity for Disabled Children since 2016 to transform faulty or second-quality garments into environmental and social impact. The initiative supports Superdry’s zero-to-landfill commitment by diverting unrepairable stock from landfill or incineration, while generating sustainable income for Newli...
Tyrwhitt Takeback Scheme
Charles Tyrwhitt
Client: British Heart Foundation
The partnership between Charles Tyrwhitt and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) is a leading example of how a fashion retailer and charity can work together to deliver meaningful environmental and social impact. Introduced voluntarily ahead of potential mandated textiles Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation, the partnersh...
LEGAL
Shortlist: To be announced on the night
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
Shortlist: To be announced on the night
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Opening Doors to Opportunities
KPMG UK
Client: The Talent Foundry
Since 2018, KPMG and The Talent Foundry (TTF) have partnered to improve social mobility by helping young people from lower socio-economic backgrounds develop the skills and confidence needed to succeed in the workplace. Together, we focus on reaching those who need opportunity the most, particularly students in areas of high deprivatio...
The 3,300-hour impact: How Deloitte and Pilotlight are building stronger communities
Deloitte UK
Client: Pilotlight
Deloitte, in collaboration with Pilotlight, has implemented a transformative two-phase programme to strengthen local communities. This initiative, part of Deloitte’s Social Impact programme, connects its 23 UK offices with local strategic charities for a three-year period. The first phase involved identifying and recruiting these local...
PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
Fernham Homes and Spadework
Fernham Homes
Client: Spadework
Fernham Homes has demonstrated exceptional leadership within the property and construction sector through a partnership that has transformed the safety, accessibility and sustainability of Spadework’s site. When their team identified dangerous and deteriorating ACCO drains during an anniversary dinner at Spadework, they acted immediate...
GPE & XLP - Building Better Futures Together for Disadvantaged Young Londoners
GPE
Client: XLP
Both GPE and XLP share the same commitment, which is to create lasting positive social impact in their communities. GPE's buildings are in the same areas where XLP works, and over the past four years XLP & GPE have had a partnership which has gone from strength to strength, through both financial support, but also engaging a significa...
Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease - partnership between I&G and Leeds Hospitals Charity
I&G
Client: Leeds Hospitals Charity
Working together, Leeds Hospitals Charity, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and construction company I&G brought the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease from a dream to reality.During the construction of the building, the two organisations worked together, along with other partners, to fundraise, involve stakeholders and the MND ...
The Women in Safe Houses fund – building lasting change
Patron Capital
Client: Various
The Women in Safe Homes fund (“the fund”), managed by Patron Capital in collaboration with Resonance, is a groundbreaking social impact investment fund, created to address the need for safe and secure housing for women facing homelessness, domestic abuse, and other complex challenges. The demand for safe and secure homes for at-risk wo...
Turner & Townsend and Action for Children: Working in Partnership to Remove Barriers to Education
Turner & Townsend
Client: Action for Children
With more than 13,000 grants delivered since launch - including 1,083 in 2025 - the Action for Children and Turner & Townsend partnership is creating measurable, life‑changing impact for children across the UK. The partnership’s Education Fund ensures that children living in poverty have access to school shoes, uniforms, coats and othe...
SPORT, TRAVEL AND LEISURE
Closing the Confidence Gap: Stats Perform x Seable
Stats Perform
Client: Seable
For many blind and partially sighted people, adventure can feel out of reach. Skiing, mountain trails and open water diving are often seen as experiences for “other people.”In 2023, Stats Perform, a global sports technology company built on performance and innovation, partnered with Seable, an award-winning social enterprise specialisi...
Every Minute Matters
Sky Bet
Client: British Heart Foundation
The Sky Bet and British Heart Foundation (BHF) partnership exemplifies the power of brands uniting to create lifesaving impact. Launched in May 2024, the partnership centres on the message “Every Minute Matters” reflecting the urgency of football’s biggest moments and the reality that every minute without CPR reduces survival chances b...
Patience Please: Making Rail Travel More Inclusive for People with Parkinson's
Trainline
Client: Parkinson's UK
Rail travel can be immensely challenging for people living with Parkinson’s. Busy platforms, fast-changing environments and a lack of understanding from fellow passengers can trigger anxiety, freezing and exhaustion, making journeys daunting and isolating.Trainline recognised that while it does not control rail infrastructure, it holds...
Premier Inn and Restaurants (Whitbread) x Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity partnership
Premier Inn and Restaurants (Whitbread)
Client: Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Since 2012, Premier Inn and Restaurants (Whitbread) and GOSH Charity partnership have had a transformational impact for the thousands of children treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) every year.The first chapter of the partnership launched with the ambition to raise £7.5 million towards the much-needed Premier Inn Clinical Bu...
TCS London Marathon Charity of the Year 2025; Pancreatic Cancer UK
London Marathon Events (LME)
Client: Pancreatic Cancer UK
The TCS London Marathon 2025 Charity of the Year was awarded to Pancreatic Cancer UK, the smallest charity to have ever been awarded the partnership. By harnessing the global profile and emotional power of the world’s most iconic mass participation sporting event, the partnership demonstrated exceptional commitment on both sides to wor...
The FA and Alzheimer’s Society charity partnership
The Football Association
Client: Alzheimer's Society
Alzheimer’s Society has been the official charity partner of The Football Association (FA) since 2021, raising over £1.5 million for dementia services and research in that time. In October 2025, the partnership made history when 22 football fans living with dementia walked out alongside the players of England and Wales senior men’s tea...
TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY
Building Schools, Building Futures: Street Child and NTT DATA, Inc. UK&I Charity Partnership
NTT DATA, Inc. UK&I
Client: Street Child
In May 2024, an exciting new partnership was announced between international children’s charity Street Child and leading IT services provider NTT DATA, Inc. UK&I (NTT). Their mission: to raise £30,000 to build a first ever secondary school in the remote village of Madinboh, Sierra Leone, ensuring quality education and thus a brighter f...
Future Workforce
Dell Technologies
Client: The Talent Foundry
At The Talent Foundry, our vision is simple: to spark ambition and unlock opportunity for young people in under-served communities so they can discover their amazing strengths and think big about their futures. After 17 years of delivering engaging skills and employability programmes, we know that the key to unlocking social mobility ...
Safety First and Energy Smart Scouts with Gas Distribution Networks
Gas Distribution Networks - SGN, Wales and West Utilities, Cadent & Northern Gas Networks
Client: The Scouts UK
The UK’s Gas Distribution Networks (GDNs) and Scouts have worked in partnership to tackle two urgent issues: carbon monoxide (CO) safety and energy efficiency for five years. CO poisoning leads to around 4,000 A&E attendances annually in the UK, yet awareness remains low and is not covered in the national curriculum. Scouts’ strong cul...
The Access Group and Young Lives vs Cancer UK Partnership
The Access Group
Client: Young Lives vs Cancer
The Access Group’s partnership with Young Lives vs Cancer was built on a powerful shared purpose: to support young people with cancer and their families at the toughest moment of their lives. Employees nominated causes close to their hearts, and Young Lives vs Cancer won the UK vote with overwhelming support, driven by colleagues’ pers...
COMMUNITY IMPACT
Fernham Homes and Spadework
Fernham Homes
Client: Spadework
The impact of the partnership between Spadework and Fernham Homes is felt across our entire community. Their support has helped us remain open during one of the most financially challenging periods the charity has faced, protecting essential services for adults with learning and other disabilities, people living with dementia, individu...
SCC, Rigby Foundation and Generation UK partnership
SCC
Client: Rigby Group & Generation UK
The partnership between SCC, The Rigby Foundation, and Generation UK is a targeted, high‑impact collaboration designed to break down systemic barriers to employment for people aged 18 years and above across the West Midlands. Through a £600,000 three-year investment from The Rigby Foundation, Generation UK delivers intensive skills boo...
STEM futures for young people in Selby and North Yorkshire
Drax
Client: SKILLZ CIC
The collaboration between the Drax Community & Education team and SKILLZ CIC is a targeted, place-based initiative that uses STEM education and workplace visits to improve life chances for children and young people across Selby and North Yorkshire. The project prioritises pupils from underserved communities, including those at risk of ...
Supporting Care Leavers into Careers (CLIC), North West
Barclays
Client: Catch22
Care Leavers into Careers (CLIC) is an employability programme delivered by Catch22 in partnership with Barclays LifeSkills across Liverpool and Greater Manchester. The programme supports care experienced young people (CEYP) who face significant barriers to employment, including disrupted education, limited professional networks and lo...
The Ansvar Community Hub
Ansvar Insurance
Client: Multiple charities
The Community Hub is a free professional workspace in Brighton for Sussex-based charities and not-for-profit organisations, provided by Ansvar Insurance, part of the charitable trust-owned Benefact Group. It was created to address the real, pressing challenges faced by small and medium sized charities: lack of space, rising costs and l...
CONSORTIUM AWARD
Community Resourcing Programme (CoRe)
Macquarie Group[SW1.1][RE1.2], Expedia Group and Slaughter and May
Client: BIG Alliance
Islington is a Borough of stark contrasts. It is home to global financial hubs and world-class law firms, yet it simultaneously houses some of the UK’s most deprived neighbourhoods. This proximity - where extreme wealth and systemic struggle sit side-by-side - is the heart of the CoRe Programme. This collaborative initiative is led by ...
Mobilising UK businesses as a positive force for refugee labour inclusion
Adecco Group, De Vere Hotels, IKEA, Odeon Cinemas, Practice Plus Group, Pret A Manger and all Tent UK members
Client: Tent UK
Tent UK is a network of over 80 large employers working to support refugee employment across the UK. We partner with businesses because access to work is a critical step for refugees in rebuilding lives, and because employers across sectors are seeking new, sustainable ways to address ongoing recruitment challenges.Launched in March 20...
Nationwide Fairer Futures
Nationwide Building Society
Client: Centrepoint, Action for Children, Dementia UK and The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
Nationwide’s Fairer Futures programme brings together four UK charities - Centrepoint, Action for Children, Dementia UK and The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity - in a first of its kind consortium tackling the biggest social challenges affecting people across generations. Launched in 2024, and delivering Nationwide’s commitment to donate a...
The Talent Foundry Cycle Challenge Consortium
The Department for Education, Flywheel IT Services, Morgan Sindall Construction, Mott MacDonald, Nexus Associates, Reds10, Wates Group, and Willmott Dixon
Client: The Talent Foundry
The Cycle Challenge Consortium is a unique partnership between The Talent Foundry (TTF), the Department for Education, and built environment companies Morgan Sindall Construction, Willmott Dixon, Reds10, Wates Group, Mott MacDonald, Flywheel IT Services, and Nexus Associates. Created in 2019, it brings together companies that would ord...
CORPORATE FOUNDATION AWARD
A Record-Breaking Year of Grant Making
Lloyds Banking Group
Client: Bank of Scotland Foundation
In 2025, the partnership between Bank of Scotland Foundation and Lloyds Banking Group became a vital source of hope during a year of immense pressure on Scotland’s communities. United by the belief that everyone deserves the chance to thrive, the partnership responded to rising demand, escalating costs, and the instability caused by sh...
Aviva Foundation
Aviva plc
Client: UK Third Sector organisations helping people build financial stability
The Aviva Foundation's strategy begins with listening. Charities tell us they need patient, long-term support to tackle complex, deeply rooted challenges – so we provide funding that gives them the time, stability and confidence to create lasting change. As one applicant reflected: “We are extremely grateful for the care and attention ...
BGF Foundation
BGF
Client: BGF Foundation
The BGF Foundation is the charitable arm of BGF, the UK’s most active growth investor. Drawing on 15 years’ experience scaling UK businesses, we apply BGF's expertise in funding, leadership, governance, financial resilience, strategy, digital capability and culture to help small-to-medium sized youth charities grow sustainably. Built o...
Engineering a better future
The Smiths Group Foundation
Client: Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
Can you imagine gathering firewood under threat of attack from wild elephants, lions or leopards? Or spending your entire day collecting enough wood to burn in your hut to stay safe and warm at night – leaving no time for anything else? For women in Maasai communities in rural Tanzania, these challenges are a daily reality. But with th...
Kurt Geiger Kindness Foundation
Kurt Geiger
Client: Kurt Geiger Kindness Foundation
We are on a mission to build a more inclusive creative industry by providing underrepresented young people with the support, skills and opportunities they need to overcome barriers. We began by supporting grassroots charities, rooted in their local communities, to empower young people and spark creativity. From there, we saw the value ...
The Screwfix Foundation
Screwfix
Client: The Screwfix Foundation
The Screwfix Foundation: Building Stronger Communities Since 2013 Since its launch, The Screwfix Foundation has been on a mission to repair, maintain, and transform community spaces and facilities for those who need them most. Powered by the passion of Screwfix colleagues and the generosity of customers, it’s turned small acts of givin...
LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP
30 years of blooming together
Marie Curie
Client: National Garden Scheme
Marie Curie and the National Garden Scheme (NGS) have shared a special partnership since 1996, based on the belief that gardens and green spaces can play a vital role in mental and physical wellbeing, especially at the end of someone’s life. The partnership, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026, is one of Marie Curie’s longest-runn...
Asda Tickled Pink
Asda
Client: Breast Cancer Now and CoppaFeel!
Asda Tickled Pink was formed in 1996 after colleagues lobbied the business to support breast cancer charities. Over 30 years, it’s become one of the UK’s longest-running and most impactful charity partnerships, with Asda colleagues, customers and suppliers consistently giving their support. Today, Tickled Pink is the biggest champion o...
BIG Alliance
Macquarie Group
Client: East London Business Alliance and Islington Giving
BIG Alliance represents the culmination of a strategic, place-based commitment to Islington by Macquarie Group. Funded by Macquarie Group Foundation in 2012, in partnership with Islington Giving (IG) and East London Business Alliance (ELBA), the partnership was designed to meet the pressing needs of a Borough defined by extremes; where...
Clifford Chance and Hope and Homes for Children: Celebrating a Transformative Partnership
Clifford Chance
Client: Hope and Homes for Children
Since 2009, Clifford Chance and Hope and Homes for Children (HHC) have built an extraordinary, sector defining partnership dedicated to ending the institutional care of children globally. Our collaboration goes far beyond fundraising to ensure that children can grow up in families where they can thrive and strives to deliver systemic c...
Pfizer UK and International Health Partners: A 20 Year Partnership Delivering Access to Essential Medicines
Pfizer UK
Client: International Health Partners
For more than 20 years, Pfizer UK and International Health Partners (IHP) have worked in a long-term partnership to improve access to essential medicines for people living in humanitarian, disaster affected and underserved settings.Since 2004, Pfizer, an IHP founding partner, has supported the delivery of Essential Health Packs (EHPs),...
Premier Inn and Restaurants (Whitbread) x Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity partnership raises £10 million to help build the Children's Cancer Centre
Premier Inn and Restaurants (Whitbread)
Client: Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Since 2012, Premier Inn and Restaurants (Whitbread) and GOSH Charity partnership have had a transformational impact for the thousands of children treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) every year.The first chapter of the partnership launched with the ambition to raise £7.5 million towards the much-needed Premier Inn Clinical Bu...
Removing Barriers to Education: Turner & Townsend and Action for Children
Turner & Townsend
Client: Action for Children
For over a decade, Turner & Townsend and Action for Children have partnered to tackle a persistent but overlooked challenge for children in poverty: access to essential items for education. With 4.5 million children living in poverty in the UK, the Action for Children and Turner & Townsend Education Fund offers £60 grants for school sh...
RSM & Anthony Nolan
RSM
Client: Anthony Nolan
Fifteen years ago, RSM committed to supporting Anthony Nolan’s lifesaving mission to match patients with stem cell donors and give people with blood cancer and blood disorders a second chance at life. What began as a commitment has grown into an enduring legacy. Over the past 15 years, RSM has donated £2.5 million, funding 10,519 vital...
MID-TERM PARTNERSHIP
British Garden Centres x Greenfingers Charity
British Garden Centres
Client: Greenfingers Charity
British Garden Centres (BGC), the UK’s largest family-run garden centre group, partnered with Greenfingers Charity to bring the healing power of nature to children’s hospices nationwide. Greenfingers creates magical outdoor spaces for life-limited children and their families, and BGC’s horticultural expertise and national footprint mad...
Costco Wholesale UK and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Costco Wholesale UK
Client: Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
For six years, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) and Costco Wholesale UK have built a high-performing, long-term corporate partnership. This partnership supports the £300m appeal for the new, world-leading Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). As our first Founder Partner, Costco Wholesale U...
Fernham Homes and Spadework
Fernham Homes
Client: Spadework
The partnership between Spadework and Fernham Homes has been nothing short of transformational. An outstanding example of what a small, values‑led corporate and charity partnership can achieve when it is ambitious and built for long‑term impact.Over the past three years, Fernham Homes has raised over £120,000 for our charity, providing...
Hospitality in the movement to end homelessness
Mitchells & Butlers plc
Client: Social Bite
Five years ago, in the midst of lockdowns and rising vulnerability, an extraordinary partnership was born. Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), one of the UK’s largest restaurant and pub groups, joined forces with Social Bite, a pioneering charity and social enterprise tackling homelessness, to launch a ‘Pay It Forward’ campaign across venues th...
Improving Access to care for people affected by homelessness
Specsavers
Client: Vision Care
Specsavers’ partnership with Vision Care, formerly Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) began more than a decade ago, grounded in a shared belief that everyone should have access to essential eye care regardless of their housing or financial situation. The relationship first took shape when Specsavers founder Dame Mary Perkins began ...
Look Back and Track Campaign
Andrex
Client: Bowel Cancer UK
Since 2022, Andrex and Bowel Cancer UK have collaborated to tackle one of the UK’s most embedded cultural challenges and help to save lives. Together, we want to increase early diagnosis of bowel cancer, which can improve survival from 10% if diagnosed at the latest stage to over 90% if diagnosed at the earliest stage. Yet cultural emb...
Turn2us x Royal London - Tackling Stigma & Building Financial Security
Royal London
Client: Turn2us
Royal London believes it has a responsibility to support the financial resilience of its customers and wider society. With living costs placing increasing pressure on household finances, research shows that people’s ability to save, plan for retirement, and build long term resilience is being affected. At the same time, access to finan...
United Against Suicide: MONY Group and Campaign Against Living Miserably
MONY Group
Client: Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
MONY Group is a tech-led savings platform, driven by a clear purpose of helping households save money. Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is a suicide prevention charity, driven by a clear purpose of saving lives. Together, they’ve created a life-saving, industry-leading, strategic partnership, tackling the tragic link between fi...
SHORT-TERM PARTNERSHIP
Aspen & Good Company People Partnership
Aspen Legacy
Client: The Good Company People
Aspen’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy is deeply rooted in a commitment to supporting grassroots charities that resonate with the passions of our people and reflect our core values and principles. We believe that meaningful community impact starts at the local level, where our contributions can be most effective and vis...
DPD and Make-A-Wish UK partner to grant 100 wishes for critically ill children
DPD UK
Client: Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK
One child every hour is diagnosed with a critical illness that makes them eligible for a wish. Make-A-Wish UK exists to bring joy and hope by granting wishes to these critically ill children when they need it most. In 2025, they teamed up with UK parcel company DPD and set an ambitious goal: to ‘deliver’ 100 once-in-a-lifetime wishes t...
Howden x Maggie's two-year charity partnership
Howden
Client: Maggie's
Howden's partnership with Maggie's is a national, people-powered collaboration designed to help more people live well with cancer - emotionally, practically, and financially. Chosen by UK colleagues, the partnership brings together Howden's people-first culture and industry reach with Maggie's trusted, evidence-based support for people...
Reckitt Responds: investing in the future of humanitarian action
Reckitt
Client: British Red Cross
In a year defined by conflict, climate shocks, and escalating humanitarian need, this partnership between Reckitt and the British Red Cross sought to continue delivering both immediate relief and long-term resilience at scale through strategic, evidence-based, and lifechanging interventions for communities facing the world’s toughest c...
Transforming hospital education for young people
Deloitte Bristol
Client: Bristol & Weston Hospitals Charity
“The services funded by Deloitte Bristol’s fundraising have been an enormous support for our family at a very hard time in our lives.” Patients in Bristol Royal Hospital for Children used to receive just one hour of face-to-face teaching a day before Bristol & Weston Hospitals Charity and Deloitte Bristol created a unique partnership i...
BEST EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECT
Shortlist: To be announced on the night
BEST RESPONSE TO THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS (free to enter with any other award entry)
Cutting schools' energy bills during the cost of living crisis
Drax
Client: Energy Sparks
In response to the cost-of-living crisis facing UK schools, the Drax Foundation partnered with Energy Sparks and local schools in a three-year collaboration (2023–2025) to deliver urgent financial relief and long-term resilience. Across Drax’s operational footprint, the programme has helped more than 300 schools reduce energy costs by ...
ICG – Million Meals Campaign
ICG
Client: Various, including: City Harvest (New York) ; City Harvest (London) ; Glassdoor (London) ; Meals & More (Across UK) ; OnSide (Across UK) ; Feeding Britain (Across UK) ; European Food Banks Federation (pan-European delivery including Paris, Milan, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Madrid), Food from the Heart (Singapore) ; YWAM (Hong Kong, China) ; Foodbank (Australia)
Food insecurity has continued to escalate acerbated by the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, creating ever greater need for emergency food support. This has put significant pressure on frontline charities. In response, ICG PLC implemented its third Million Meals project, aiming to provide essential food aid to communities in need. Running...
Newlife £1 School Uniform
Matalan
Client: Newlife The Charity for Disabled Children
The Newlife £1 School Uniform initiative transformed potential waste into community value by using brand-new uniform items donated by high street retailers including Matalan, preventing them from going to landfill. Following a packaging redesign, Matalan donated their excess school uniform stock and saleable returns to Newlife to be so...
The cost of dying. Supporting terminally ill people through the cost-of-living crisis.
SGN
Client: Marie Curie
Marie Curie’s Community Companion Service with SGN addresses the cost-of-living crisis by supporting people living with terminal illness, and those close to them, who are affected by rising energy costs and fuel poverty. Since December 2024, the service has reached undeserved communities across three locations in the South of England, ...
BEST ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT PARTNERSHIP
Shortlist: To be announced on the night
TALENT
CSR TEAM OF THE YEAR
Nationwide Building Society - CSR Team
Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide’s Social Impact team delivers Fairer Futures - a bold, purpose led programme delivering the organisation’s 1% pre tax profit to good causes. With 15 specialists across three teams, our team works as a single engine driving transformational social change.Since Fairer Futures launched in June 2024, we’ve already supported over...
Specsavers Homelessness Programme
Specsavers
Launching in 2022, Specsavers’ Homelessness Programme has provided free eye and ear care to people experiencing homelessness through selected stores and charity‑led pop‑up clinics in community centres such as Crisis Skylights. The programme has supported over 6,000 people and involved more than 400 colleagues who have volunteered their...
