CHARITY EVENTS AWARDS 2022 | 1 JULY, LONDON.
These awards recognise and reward everyone involved in staging and delivering magnificent Charity and Fundraising Events.
The deadline for entry is 16 February 2022.
Why the Charity Event Awards?
Celebrate with your team
Being an award-winner is a powerful motivator to inspire you and your colleagues to keep up the great work!
Enhance your reputation
Appending an independently judged third-party badge of excellence is a sure-fire shortcut to emphasising your merit to colleagues, clients, bosses & stakeholders.
Generate positive headlines
Spread the good news - everyone loves a success story and winning an award is a great publicity hook for social and traditional media efforts
Aspire to Better Practice
Winner or not - seeing what others do for their products is an irreplacable source of tried & tested award-worthy ideas!
Our Judges
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Tom Whitehead
Assistant Director - Community & Events, Shelter
Tom Whitehead
Assistant Director - Community & Events, ShelterTom Whitehead is the Head of Community & Events at Shelter having worked in the charity sector for over 13 years. Through a mixture of charity owned and third party fundraising events, Tom has a wealth of experience of maximising fundraising potential for various organisations.
His approach is to balance detailed analysis with a human touch to truly engage supporters. Most recently, he project managed the Fundraising Portfolio Analysis at Breast Cancer Care which adopts a data driven approach to understand each product’s current and potential performance.
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Jo Jones
Head of Global Events and Major Giving Communications, Sightsavers
Jo Jones
Head of Global Events and Major Giving Communications, SightsaversJo is the Head of Global Events and Major Giving Communications at Sightsavers. She has been at Sightsavers since 2006. Prior to joining, she worked at Sussex Wildlife Trust in a corporate fundraising role and prior to that, for Carewatch Care Services in a marketing and events role. Her degree in Philosophy has come in handy over the last two years when a philosophical approach to delivering events in the virtual world has been required. In pre-Covid times, Jo could be found running launch events in Washington or Malawi, or putting up exhibitions on the South Bank working with creative geniuses! Her current role includes overseeing the events function at Sightsavers as well as delivering communications for the charity’s corporate partners and managing the charity’s celebrity ambassadors.
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Jenny Peat
Head of Community & Events Fundraising, Sense
Jenny Peat
Head of Community & Events Fundraising, SenseJenny is the Head of Community and Events Fundraising at Sense, a national charity that supports children and adults who are deafblind and have other complex disabilities. Managing both dispersed and office-based teams, she is responsible for raising over £1.5M of income across a range of events and income streams. She is passionate about delivering exceptional supporter experiences and developing new products and experiences for supporters to get involved in.
Before joining Sense in January 2018, Jenny had worked at Livability as well as in the London Volunteer Fundraising team at Cancer Research UK.
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Kiera Ridge
Head of Events, Alzheimer's Society
Kiera Ridge
Head of Events, Alzheimer's Society -
Devina Ganas
Head of Sporting Events, Tommy's
Devina Ganas
Head of Sporting Events, Tommy'sDevina has been at Tommy’s for over 15 years in total and in sporting and challenge events fundraising for the past 9 years. I take part in a few running events myself – half marathons at most. As an events fundraiser, I’m always looking at and exploring new events in the charity sector to add to our portfolio at Tommy’s. I have a good understanding, mainly through our participants if what they value in an event.
Our Judges
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Kiera Ridge
Head of Events, Alzheimer's Society
Kiera Ridge
Head of Events, Alzheimer's Society -
Devina Ganas
Head of Sporting Events, Tommy's
Devina Ganas
Head of Sporting Events, Tommy'sDevina has been at Tommy’s for over 15 years in total and in sporting and challenge events fundraising for the past 9 years. I take part in a few running events myself – half marathons at most. As an events fundraiser, I’m always looking at and exploring new events in the charity sector to add to our portfolio at Tommy’s. I have a good understanding, mainly through our participants if what they value in an event.
