Centre for Social Justice Awards

Currently closed for applications Addiction and substance misuse Adult Education/Learning Advice services Communities Education and learning Family and parenting Health, wellbeing and sport organisational development Poverty and deprivation social enterprise Social inclusion Social welfare and poverty Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Medium (up to £60,000)

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Overview

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) exists to prevent and tackle poverty across Britain.

Their work closely with an Alliance of grassroot charities and social enterprises as they are critical to their mission, both in their vital work supporting people out of poverty and through feeding their insights and ideas into their policy work.

The CSJ Awards find the very best grassroot charities and social enterprises from across Britain, gives them £20,000 to scale their impact and puts them in the spotlight for senior politicians, philanthropists and business and charity leaders to be inspired by and learn from.

The event is designed to give Award Winners unique opportunities to connect with other people passionate about furthering the cause of social justice in Britain.

Who should apply?

The CSJ Awards focus on finding small charities and social enterprises who are proving themselves effective at preventing and tackling poverty in Britain.

The award judges will be particularly interested in organisations that:

– Focus their work in the most deprived areas of the UK

– Tackle the root causes of poverty

– Intervene early to prevent poverty

– Are ambitious for the lives of those they work with

– Find innovative ways to combat poverty

– Have a turnover of less than £2 million

– Are working with people living in Britain

Please note that charities that have previously won CSJ Awards within the past five years will not be considered.

Eligibility

Your focus is on groups and communities that are the most deprived in the UK, tackling the root causes of poverty through innovation and collaboration.
You are ambitious for the lives of your clients/community and seek to engage them fully in all your work.
You work within at least one of the main policy areas of the CSJ:

-Work & welfare

- Addiction

- Education

- Family

- Debt, Housing & Financial Inclusion

- Criminal Justice

- Modern slavery

Your organisation has an annual income of less than £2 million
You have been operating for at least a year and have at least one set of financial accounts.
Your organisation should be incorporated and registered as a charity, social enterprise or profit with purpose company that has social purpose clearly embedded into its articles via an asset or mission lock. (They will consider a range of legal structures including a registered charity, charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), company limited by guarantee (CLG), company limited by shares (CLS), community interest companies (CIC), and community benefit society (CBS).

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