2nd Annual Awards for Charity Events
Charity Event Awards 2020
The 2020 deadline has now passed, but if you want to enter your charity event please Contact Us
See the highlights from last year: who won in our 2019 Hall of Fame and enjoy the candid shots in our event gallery.
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 2020 Judges
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Hibba Al-Atrakchi
Head of Events, The Prince's Trust
Hibba Al-Atrakchi
Head of Events, The Prince's TrustHibba is Head of Events at The Prince’s Trust overseeing a portfolio of Special and Active Events for the youth charity. She has previously worked with Cancer Research UK in Corporate Partnerships and Special Events, and enjoyed four years abroad delivering major projects in Abu Dhabi. Hibba has been at The Prince’s Trust since 2016 and is passionate about new event trends and event innovation.
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Kathleen Miles
Director of Fundraising, Mind
Kathleen Miles
Director of Fundraising, MindKathleen Miles has been Director of Fundraising at Mind since 2007. Kathleen is responsible for the direction, development and delivery of both Mind’s fundraising and Mind’s Workplace Wellbeing hub who deliver a range of successful Workplace Wellbeing initiatives, including Mind’s Training and Consultancy and our Workplace Wellbeing Index.
Kathleen has a voluntary sector background, having worked in a range of organisations over the past 27 years, both in service development and delivery and in fundraising. Amongst her previous roles she has worked at NSPCC and Oxford University. She also holds a MSc in Voluntary Sector Organisation from the LSE.
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Katie Nugent
Head of Special Events and Stewardship, Unicef UK
Katie Nugent
Head of Special Events and Stewardship, Unicef UKAn experienced events professional with over 18 years working across the not-for-profit sector. Katie currently works at Unicef UK leading on their Special Events and Stewardship programme. She joined Unicef from the Natural History Museum where she also headed up the Special Events and Supporter Team delivering over 70 events annually.
Katie has worked on all aspects of fundraising events from mass participation at Cancer Research UK to gala dinners at the Museum to small intimate thought leadership breakfasts with world leaders and thinkers. Before moving to the 3rd sector she worked on London Fashion Week, the IMF and various performing arts and literary festivals.
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Tom Whitehead
Head of Community and Events, Shelter
Tom Whitehead
Head of Community and 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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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 2020 Judges
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Tom Whitehead
Head of Community and Events, Shelter
Tom Whitehead
Head of Community and 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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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.
