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🌟Meet our twelve finalists of the CSJ Awards 2025.
💪These small charities work hard to serve some of the most challenged communities across the UK.
🏆Keep an eye on our social media as we build up to announce our Award winners in November.
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Street Connect are finalists of the 2025 CSJ Awards.
🏠Street Connect support people facing addiction and homelessness with housing, recovery and hope.
📊In 2024/25, they worked with approximately 2,678 individuals across 17 projects (and a pilot), with 8,411 street outreach interventions.
🎯Acts Trust are finalists for this year’s CSJ Awards.
🥫Their Food Poverty Strategy goes beyond emergency aid, focusing on long-term change.
📉In one year they supported 5370 people with emergency food aid. 35% of these were children under the age of 18.
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📣 Cumbria Youth Alliance are finalists for the 2025 CSJ Awards.
💼They equip young people with skills, confidence and pathways into work.
📊49% in their Bridging Horizons programme secured sustained employment — nearly double the national benchmark of 28% .
🍪Our team visited Half The Story, 1 of 3 amazing businesses run by @GraceEnterprises.
👂Listen below to hear more about this important work.
🙌 Excited to announce that Grace Enterprises are finalists for the 2025 CSJ Awards.
🏢They run supportive, real Living Wage jobs for people facing multiple barriers.
📈92% of employees say working for Grace Enterprises has positively affected their life.
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🌟 Noah's Ark Centre are finalists for the 2025 CSJ Awards.
🛋️ This community-built service provides long-term counselling, money advice & wellbeing support.
🤝Noah's Ark have helped over 2,200 families in the Calderdale area become debt-free.
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👏Meet WeMindTheGap - 2025 CSJ Awards finalists this #SmallCharityWeek
🚀 Their life-changing programmes give underserved young people paid work, coaching & confidence.
📈70% of young people who complete their WeGrow programme move into fulltime work or education.
🌟This #SmallCharityWeek we're proud to recognise @fifegingerbread.bsky.social, finalists for the 2025 CSJ Awards.
👩👧👦They support lone parents and vulnerable families across Fife with hands-on support.
💪74% of families they serve live below low-income thresholds.
👀CSJ staff saw how Family Gateway tackles the root causes of poverty.
🎧Listen below to hear more about their visit.
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✨Family Gateway are finalists for the CSJ Awards 2025!
🫂They support families and communities to improve life chances for children in North Tyneside.
🏡After taking part, 93% reported an improvement or consistency in their household finances.
📣Excited to announce R;pole Suicide Precent Charity as a finalist for the 2025 CSJ Awards.
🧑💻R;pple Suicide Prevention makes the internet safer for those at crisis point.
With 1.9 million active users, R;pple has made 120,000 possible life-saving interceptions.
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🌟This #SmallCharityWeek we are delighted to announce StandOut as a finalist of the 2025 CSJ Awards
🤝StandOut are dedicated to providing coaching to improve readiness upon release in London prisons
48% of StandOut users eligible for employment found stable employment within six months of release
⭐STAY TUNED
🏆This Small Charities Week we will be announcing the finalists of this year's CSJ Awards
👀Stay tuned in to our social media this week to find out about the incredible small charities serving local communities across the UK
#SmallCharityWeek
