Charities and third sector organisations recently announced as winners in the virtual awards ceremony for the 2023 Global Good Awards (GGA), sponsored by Barley Communications. The awards recognise organisations and leaders who are achieving practical, real-world impact for people and planet that is both scalable and replicable – and who have inspiring stories to tell.
Environmental change charity Hubbub won their third GGA Gold award for Campaign of the Year for their Eat Your Pumpkin campaign, while Kent Wildlife Trust & Wildwood Trust won Gold in the Game Changing Innovation category for their Wilder Blean project – where introducing bison to local woodland as a nature-based solution to the biodiversity and climate crisis, is changing the face of UK conservation.
Also winning Gold in Community Partnership of the Year were The Bread and Butter Thing who save over 100 tonnes of food from being wasted by redistributing food to the communities that need it most. Global Action Plan won Gold in Educational Excellence for their partnership with Unilever on the Dirt is Good Schools Programme, helping young people take action on the social and environmental issues they care about. While environmental organisation, City to Sea took home Gold in the Employee Engagement & Wellbeing category.
Charity, Sals Shoes took home a Silver award in the Waste Reduction & Minimisation category for their work saving almost 5,000,000 pairs of pre-loved shoes from landfill and distributing to almost 5,000,000 children in need across 59 countries. While ethical credit provider, Fair for You & Iceland Foods took home a Bronze award for Community Partnership of the Year, for their Food Club project which offers interest free micro-loans of £25-£100, empowering financially-excluded families to avoid school holiday food poverty and improve their financial resilience.
The winners, finalists and past winners will now reconvene at The Purpose Summit in October, a jam-packed day of purpose-led content happening in person, in collaboration with sustainability event experts, The Crowd. Featuring interactive talks and workshops delivered by industry experts, practitioners and GGA winners, the day will help organisations real progress in purpose-driven leadership, sustainable business, and positive social impact.
The Purpose Summit will be open to all, with discounted tickets for entrants for 2023.
The full list of Global Award winners is available to view here: https://globalgoodawards.co.uk/2023-global-good-award-winners/
Award categories include: – Global Good Company of the Year, SME of the Year, Start-up Enterprise, Individual Leader of the Year, Community Partnership, Educational Excellence, Environmental Behaviour Change, Game Changing Innovation, Best Product and Campaign of the Year and Technology for Good. There is also the Canon Young Champion of the Year category, which recognises a young person who has shown outstanding leadership in campaigning for a good cause around a social or environmental issue. This year, a new award for Ukraine Crisis Champions has been added, with a minimum of 20% of the category’s entry fees to be donated to Goods for Good.
In addition to the donations to Goods for Good, the GGA’s support their charity partner, Cool Earth, by donating 1% of all turnover from sponsorship, entry fees and ticket sales, a £5 or £10 donation per paying entry to protect a tree or plant an Inga Bean and by helping to protect rainforest canopies via their carbon capture projects to match the emissions from the event that they aren’t able to remove. This year donations are expected to total £4k – doubling last year’s contribution.
Karen Sutton, Founder of the Global Good Awards commented: “Each winner has demonstrated remarkable creativity in implementing environmentally responsible practices and they’re a great example of how businesses of any size can make a significant difference. I’d like to congratulate each one of them on their wins.
We saw the highest number of entries from the widest global spread of entrants in the award’s eight-year history, and we are all so glad to see that organisations across the globe are striving to have a more sustainable outlook and impact as we edge closer to net zero.”
The Global Good Awards take great care to ‘walk the talk’ across all areas of sustainability. In 2018, they were the first awards scheme in the world to be accredited as ‘Outstanding’ by the Awards Trust Mark, retaining it every year since. The rating reflected the Global Good Awards’ commitment to running a scheme with the highest standards of ethical behaviour and transparency. Meanwhile, the Awards’ commitments to sustainability include a fully plant-based menu since 2018, a no-fly policy and a pre-loved dress code.
Sponsors for the 2023 Awards include Barley Communications as the new Platinum headline sponsor, Illumina as first-time Gold sponsor and a new Silver sponsor of the Game Changing Innovation of the Year, Water Plus. Canon EMEA returns for the fourth year as sponsor of the Young Champion of the Year Award, while other fourth-time sponsor Planet Mark is supporting the Climate Action: Race to Net Zero Award. Brandpie is sponsoring the Employee Engagement and Wellbeing Award for a second year and EcoOnline (formerly Alcumus) is also returning for a second year to sponsor the Company of the Year category.
To enter in 2024 and for more information on the awards please visit the website on https://globalgoodawards.co.uk/ and to learn more about Purpose Summit and the current schedule of events please visit www.purposesummit.co.uk.