CSJ Awards
The Oscars of the Small Charity World
The CSJ Awards is an annual event to showcase, celebrate, and reward the very best grassroots charities and social enterprises from local communities throughout the UK. Known as the Oscars of the small charity world, this year we’ll be celebrating our very best on-the-ground heroes in the heart of Westminster on Monday 17th November.
This is an invitation-only event. Please email csjawards@centreforsocialjustice.org.uk with any enquiries.
Stay tuned to find out who will be crowned the winners!
The Finalists
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About the Awards
What do we award?
Every year, the CSJ team combs the country to identify the most outstanding, innovative, and effective organisations who fight poverty on the frontline. We look for charities that help the hardest to reach, inspire us with their impact, and have discovered ways of scaling their work beyond their own neighbourhood. On average, the CSJ team visit two Alliance charities everyday.
Over the last year the CSJ has supported 734 small charities right across the UK via our Foundation’s regional offices. This support has seen us link them into policy, introduce them to philanthropists, and help them on daily issues that affect them. Through this process, we’ve got to know them closely and entered them into the CSJ Awards.
The CSJ Foundation team conducted a process of application, which meant desk analysis, visits and much arguing – enabling us to whittle the very best down to 12. The job of our independent, esteemed team of judges, with a wealth of experience across a wide range of sectors, was to come to select the winners.
How have Award winners been chosen?
At the close of one Awards season, another one begins… Regional heads from across the CSJ Foundation scour their area encouraging hundreds of local charities to apply. The team whittle the applications down to a shortlist of the 12 strongest small charities. CSJ staff from all teams (Policy, Research, Communications, People & Ops…) leave Westminster for Awards visits to assess our shortlist. Their feedback informs our star-studded team of judges, with a wealth of experience across a wide range of sectors, who come together to select the winners on Small Charity Week.
