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The Charity Governance Awards 2017 winners

By Our Community Enterprise Team

On July 24, 2017

In Awards, Charities, community, governance, News

The Charity Governance Awards nomination process was featured on our pages at the beginning of the year.

The winners are now available and a great cluster of charities , with some amazing stories to share, are featured on the web pages of the 2017 awards.

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The winners include:

Board Diversity and Inclusivity
Winner – Voluntary Arts

Embracing Digital
Winner – Asthma UK

Embracing Opportunity and Harnessing Risk
Winner – Preston Road Women’s Centre

Improving Impact (up to 3 paid staff)
Winner – St. Peter’s Community Wellbeing Projects

Improving Impact (4 – 25 paid staff)
Winner – Prisoners’ Education Trust

Improving Impact ( 26+ paid staff)
Winner – Step by Step

Managing Turnaround
Winner – Off the Record

You can see a series of short films about each winner here.
https://www.charitygovernanceawards.co.uk/2017-winners-videos/

You can see a list of all the charities short-listed in 2017 here.
https://www.charitygovernanceawards.co.uk/2017-short-list/

Congratulations to everyone who took part and contributed to the work. Looking forward to another challenge in 2018.

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Charity Governance Awards 2017

By Our Community Enterprise Team

On January 12, 2017

In Awards, Charities, governance, News

If you have a fantastic and supportive board, then the Charity Governance Awards 2017 deadline has just been extended to midnight on Monday 23rd January, 2017.

The awards, organised by The Clothworkers Company include cash awards of £5,000 to the winners.

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Will your name be announced?

“The Charity Governance Awards is an exciting not-for-profit initiative created to celebrate outstanding governance in charities both small and large.

We all know that effective governance makes a difference. And by sharing examples of inspirational trustees and brilliant boards we want to show how great governance and doing good go hand-in-hand.”

Source: https://www.charitygovernanceawards.co.uk/

There are seven categories of award to be achieved…

You can simply enter on-line on this web page. Here you will find the qualifications necessary to enter, as well as an on-line application form.

If you do, we wish you all success!

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