The Creative Shootout, the UK’s leading done in a day creative-for-good awards are back, and are looking for nominations from UK charities to be its Charity of the Year 2024.
The Shootout is calling on all UK charities that work to support, improve and protect the health of the nation to enter. These charities might help with the cost-of-living after a diagnosis, support families through palliative care, fundraise for critical medical research, promote initiatives to combat mental health issues and loneliness, provide access to hygiene products and rehabilitation programmes – and much more beyond this.
The cost-of-living crisis, on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic, has made the nation’s health front of mind for almost everyone. Furthermore, 72% of the British public now say that their overall health and wellbeing has declined in the last 12 months[1].
The chosen Charity of the Year will get the opportunity to work with one of the UK’s leading creative agencies and see their winning idea come to life in a national campaign for them, backed by some very high profile media partners.
To enter, charities simply send in 250 words on why creativity will be important to their charity in 2024. Entries close on Friday 30th June 2023.
Johnny Pitt, Creative Shootout Founder, says, “The nation’s health has never been more of an issue in modern times, than it is now. Being the Shootout’s Charity of the Year turbocharges the reputation, awareness and understanding of a charity each year, as we’ve seen in previous years. And right now, creativity for good has never been more needed.”
Mary McGrath MBE, CEO of FoodCycle, Charity of the Year 2023, says; “Being a part of The Creative Shootout has been an exceptional opportunity for FoodCycle. Not only was the event fun, it was fascinating and inspiring to see so many creative ideas and the enormous amount of effort that all of the agencies had put into their entries and pitches. We’re now working with the winning agency and media partners on what will be the biggest awareness and volunteer recruitment campaign we have ever embarked on – really putting FoodCycle and Community Dining on the map! The generosity of everyone involved has been fantastic – it’s an opportunity not to be missed.”
Previous charities and causes that have taken part include UNICEF, Time to Change, FareShare, A Plastic Planet, Crisis and FoodCycle.
Charities can download the tender document to become The Creative Shootout Charity of the Year 2024 here.
[1] The Health Foundation