CSJ Awards 2025
The CSJ Awards 2025 brought together the biggest names in politics, showbiz and philanthropy to celebrate twelve of the best grassroots charities in the UK that made it to the final, and our five incredible CSJ Awards winners.
The CSJ Awards were presented by a fantastic cast of big names, including:
- Akshata Murty, Chair of the Richmond Project
- Rachel Riley MBE, Mathematician and broadcaster
- Rt. Hon. Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education
- Rt. Hon. Lisa Nandy MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- Sir Gareth Southgate OBE, Former England Manager and leadership advocate
The ceremony was covered by GB News, The Times, The Spectator, Buxton Advertiser, Glasgow Times, The Leader and Portsmouth News
On the morning of the event, the CSJ Foundation hosted a 'CSJ Awards Podcast' with all the winning charity CEOs, hosted by broadcaster and activist Sharon Gaffka. Watch it here.
You can learn more about the winning charities below.
The Winners
Street Connect
Grace Enterprises
WeMindTheGap
R;pple
How have the Award winners been chosen?
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.
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. A team of judges, with a wealth of experience across a wide range of sectors, come together to select the winners.