Winners 2025

Supporting grassroots women’s rights organisations with flexible, core funding and capacity-building.

As founder of Childline and The Silver Line, along with a lifetime of campaigning and activism, Dame Esther Rantzen has touched the lives of millions of people. Tania Mason charts her remarkable story.

Mayhew delivered a six-year, mass canine rabies vaccination programme in Kabul, Afghanistan, which has resulted in no dogs testing positive for rabies in the city since 2021.

Opened in 1997, the Kilmartin Museum on Scotland’s west coast desperately needed an overall. The exhibition had outgrown the buildings, the education and research spaces were not fit for purpose, and the visitor experience was suffering. Kilmartin was also unable to take loans of artefacts from other museums, as it did not meet required standards.

Ashden Climate Solutions launched its Let’s Go Zero campaign to ask schools to publicly pledge to become zero carbon by 2030.

A recent Carers Trust report indicates that 10-13% of the pupil population could have caring roles, equating to approximately three children in every classroom.

icandance was founded in 2006 by dance movement psychotherapist, Juliet Diener, when she realised that traditional therapies for disabled children were leaving many unable to properly express their emotions or engage socially.

Testimony 360 – People & Places of the Holocaust is a free digital education programme, devised by Holocaust Educational Trust, that combines eyewitness survivor testimony with virtual reality, to enable the charity to continue educating pupils about the Holocaust even once all survivors have passed.

Businessman and philanthropist Steve Morgan knew that something different needed to be done to deliver long-term change for young people in North Birkenhead, one of the most deprived areas of Liverpool.

Around 20% of all police-recorded crime is related to violence against women and girls. Yet while healthcare settings are often the first place that victims seek help, referrals to specialist domestic abuse services from healthcare professionals were low.

Oxfam believes that supporting women’s rights organisations is one of the best ways to alleviate poverty. In late 2020, the charity designed and implemented the first Women’s Rights Fund (WRF) pilot in Kenya and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, before launching it in Lebanon in 2024 and Nepal this year.

Street Talk provides specialist outreach mental health support for women who are on the street through sex work or trafficking, in order to help them overcome a lifetime of complex trauma.