Everyday Impact Award - New Enterprises Nominees 2011
For individuals, small local companies or community groups who have a clear vision for change. They engage and involve others to bring about concrete results that can be seen and felt on a daily basis. This category is for 'new' enterprises that have recently started up and been running for up to 5 years.
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The Choir with No Name - aims to provide a safe environment for people who have experienced homelessness or exclusion to enjoy singing and build up confidence, skills and friendships along the way. The Choir with No Name gives people something to bond over that is about more than the negative stuff.
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| Twisting Ducks Theatre Company - a group of 8 artists with learning disabilities who use theatre to campaign for change, to raise awareness about the barriers people with learning disabilities face, to involve more people with learning disabilities directly in the arts, and to create a stronger voice for the learning disabled community in Newcastle and beyond. |
| The Children's University - aims to promote social mobility by providing high quality out-of-school-hours activities to children aged 7-14 and engaging the wider communities as learning partners in the realisation of this. At the heart of its work is the ambition to raise aspirations, boost achievement and foster a love of learning, so that young people can make the most of their abilities and interests, regardless of their background. |
Everyday Impact Award - Long-term Enterprises Nominees 2011
For individuals, small local companies or community groups who have a clear vision for change. They engage and involve others to bring about concrete results that can be seen and felt on a daily basis. This category is for long-term sustained enterprises that have been running more than 5 years.
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| New Heights Warren Farm Community Project - aims to play a key part in empowering the socially deprived community of Kingstanding, which has complex problems, to find and manage solutions to their predicaments. They work to make their community vibrant, with high aspirations, for all groups within it. They offer a cradle to grave service and support the most vulnerable sectors of our local community which are: young people, vulnerable families, older people and the sick and their carers. |
| Everton in the Community - a dynamic charity that uses the influential brand of Everton Football Club to motivate, educate and inspire diverse communities in the North West of England and North Wales, along with their satellite disability programme in Shanghai, China. The organisation has undertaken community work since 1988. They work with multi-sector partners to deliver targeted projects focusing on health, exercise, education, employment, disability, social inclusion and community cohesion. |
| NMC Design & Print - aims to improve the outlook for people with Muscular Dystrophy by ensuring that there are opportunities for work and employment for them. There are three main objectives of NMC Design and Print: the first is to provide employment, the second is to encourage individuals helping them to achieve their potential and the third is to make enough money to be self-sufficient. |
Influencer Award Nominees 2011
This award is solely for individuals that really know which buttons to press to make things happen - from campaigning for a change in law to bringing different groups together to achieve what might have seemed impossible. We want to acknowledge the determination and hard work required to communicate clearly, put forth a persuasive argument and win people over to bring about positive change. |
| Deirdre Boyd - Ms Boyd is an addiction recovery advocate and has worked to challenge the widespread beliefs that addicted people can't recover. Her work has highlighted systemic and practice flaws which have been changed. She has raised awareness about recovery from addiction, and via UKESAD has created a forum where people in recovery and working back in the addiction field can come together in a safe environment and support each other in their work. |
| Rod King - Mr. King established 20’s Plenty for Us which aims to maximise the number of people within the UK adopting 20 mph as the default residential road speed limit. His objective is wide area, signed, mandatory, enforceable, default speed limits, without speed bumps – “Total 20”. He works to empower those wanting 20mph speeds to demonstrate they are effective and deliverable and use social marketing to get drivers to obey limits. |
| Philip Ishola - Mr. Ishola led a 3 year project to transform the response to child victims of trafficking. This included the development of a national child trafficking toolkit and new supplementary guidance to the London Child Protection procedures. This project was piloted nationally and forms the core element of the approach taken to child victims of trafficking by participating local authorities, Local Safeguarding Children Board, the police and UKBA. |
Great Giving Funders Award Nominees 2011
This award is for funders that demonstrate a clear understanding of their beneficiaries and funding environment. The funder will be able to demonstrate that they apply and use that understanding to inform and improve grant-making by giving clear guidance and support. The funder shows a willingness to work with applicants to address concerns and demonstrate a response to changing needs in the wider environment.
* For more about DSC's Great Giving Campaign, click here |
| Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund (HSCVF) - HSCVF’s beneficiaries are Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs) that are not-for-profit. They have adapted their application procedures to ensure applicants’ time inputs are minimised through online application processes which minimise paper waste and copying, supporting environmental responsibility. They take feedback and have continuously improved and adapted their systems throughout the two years they have been operational to maximise usability and accessibility of the interface with VCSEs. |
| Community Development Foundation (CDF) - CDF’s starting point is to look at the outcomes the funding is expected to achieve and how to reach targeted beneficiaries. They take a community development approach to funding, from design through to evaluation and have 44 years experience of working with communities. |
| Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales - The Foundation remains one of the very few grant makers which provides support towards much needed core costs - 70% of our funding goes towards this – at a time when charities are struggling to maintain basic services. As a needs-driven funder, funding is based on what charities tell us they need, not what The Foundation thinks they need, as it recognises they are the experts in their field. |
Lifetime Award Nominees 2011
This award is for individuals who have made a major impact on their organisation/community and have devoted their time and energy to achieving sustained positive change over the span of their working lives. Their work will demonstrate measurable positive results and changes that have made a difference to individuals or the wider community. |
| Steve Johnson - Mr. Johnson has spearheaded the Everton in the Community disability programme, making it one of the most influential and iconic in world sport. After losing his leg in a freak accident whilst playing football in 1985, he has used his own experiences to inspire thousands of disabled people to pursue ambitious life goals and achieve their full potential. He has established pioneering projects, both in the UK and abroad, to give disabled people the best possible opportunities to succeed in sport, education and employment. |
| Angela & Neil Dickson - The Dicksons wanted to increase the amount of high quality research into brain tumours in the UK with the aim of improving treatment and increasing survivability. They worked towards reducing the length of time it took to diagnose patients with brain tumours, and increasing public awareness of brain cancer, to try and emulate the success of childhood leukaemia and increasing survivability. |
| Jack Petchey - Mr Petchey has worked to enable young people to "think positive", raise their aspirations, engage in new activities and feel proud of what they have achieved. Through various programmes like the Achievement Award Programme, Step into Dance and the Speak Out Challenge he has engaged young people, inspiring them to develop to their potential, to become contributing active citizens and to get positive stories about young people into the media to challenge societies 'deficit' perception of young people. |
