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The 2006 CSJ Awards have just been launched to recognise, reward and celebrate the work of innovative grassroots poverty-fighting groups. £25,000 is available in prize money.
CSJ Awards are sponsored by The Pears Foundation. They recognise, reward and celebrate grassroots organisations making an exceptional contribution to tackling poverty.
The Centre is learning how groups belonging to the ‘welfare society’ are succeeding in meeting needs where the welfare state is struggling or failing. These success stories are presented to policymakers in central and local government to better inform their efforts to tackle poverty. The first CSJ Awards event in June 2005 was attended by senior politicians including David Cameron, Frank Field and Stephen Timms, along with opinion-formers and philanthropists.
In addition to one-off prizes, CSJ Awards are about developing ongoing, mutually-beneficial relationships. The Centre for Social Justice Alliance facilitates this. Several of the groups short-listed for the inaugural CSJ Awards are now advising senior politicians in policy-making. Many have benefited from the enhanced publicity and profile that the CSJ Awards has given them.
The judging panel for the CSJ Awards includes Camila Batmanghelidjh, Director of Kids Company, Luke Geoghegan, Warden of Toynbee Hall and social affairs writer Bob Holman. A £25,000 prize fund will be divided among the winning groups.
Applications are now invited for a closing date of 12 April 2006.
Guidelines are available from the Centre for Social Justice website. www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk
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