Fareshare wins the Third Sector Awards 2017

The Third Sector Awards 2017 took place on Thursday 21 September at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square. In the current edition, Fareshare was announced as the winner of the Charity of the Year Award. For more than 20 years, FareShare has been rescuing good, in-date, surplus food and delivering it out to community groups and charities across the UK, who then transform this predominantly fresh food into meals for vulnerable people as well as providing life-changing support. Apart from FareShare, the ceremony itself celebrated the success organisations in the sector and gave charities the chance to have their hard work and achievements recognised. In total, 96 non-profit organisations were represented in the 109 entries shortlisted across 25 categories.

In the Charity of the year category, Auditory Verbal UK was highly commended and The Scout Association and The Langley House Trust were recognised as finalist organisations. Apart from this group, there were other Excellence Awards plus both Partnernship and Talent Awards. Here you can check the list of winners from each category into the Excellence Awards:

• Annual Report: Street League
• Big Impact Award: Campaigning to end child marriage in Malawi (Plan International UK)
• Brand Development: Believe in Me (Barnardo’s)
• Communications agency campaign of the year: #RealityXMas Christmas Card Campaign (Doctors of the World UK)
• Communications campaign of the year: CubS100 (The Scout Association)
• Digital Innovation of the year: #ReStartAHeart (British Heart Foundation)
• Enterprise Award: The Grand Appeal
• Fundraising Campaign: Croydon Capital Appeal
• Fundraising event: The Great Street Feast (Freedom from Torture)
• Marketing campaign of the year: Rocket Science (Royal Horticultural Society Campaign for School Gardening)
• Small Charity, Big Achiever: Autism Life Dogs, All about Trans (On Road Media)

With a commitment to educate and inspire, the Awards recognised those who give back to the community and celebrate organisations and social leaders from across the sector. In this sense, three projects have been the winners of the Partnership Awards, also divided into three different categories:

• Best charity law firm: Clifford Chance
• Charity partnership of the year: Lawfield Community Project
• Corporate partnership of the year: Macmillan Cancer Support and Power

500 charities, both large and small were in attendance for a night of entertainment, recognition, celebration and networking. Hall Cruttenden, comedian and guest host were the one revealing winners across the night. Last but not least, the Talent Awards left the following winners among 9 different categories:

• Celebrity charity champion: Steve and Helen Backshall (World Land Trust)
• Charity chief executive: Deborah Alsina MBE (Bowel Cancer UK)
• Charity of the year: Anna Rose Barker (The British Youth Council)
• Communications team of the year: Electrical Safety First
• Finance team of the year: Amnesty International
• Fundraising team of the year: Crisis
• Rising chief executive: Jonathan Spiers (Autistica)
• Volunteer of the year: Lisa Mari Hilder (Winner, the Preston Road Women’s Centre)
• Volunteer team of the year: Anthony Nolan