Charities together with Alzheimer’s Research UK, RSPCA, Coppafeel, and Greenpeace UK are among the many winners of this 12 months’s Smiley Charity Film Awards.
This 12 months – the Awards’ seventh – noticed over 500 charities enter. 202 charity movies have been shortlisted, with 18 topped winners.
The Smiley Charity Film Awards’ Grand Prix Charity Film of the Year award went to Alzheimer’s Research UK for a movie voiced by Academy Award-winning actress Olivia Colman and shining a lightweight on the situation. The Grand Prix People’s Choice Award, voted for and determined by the general public, went to the RSPCA for its movie bringing consideration to animal cruelty.
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The winners of the 2024 Smiley Charity Film Awards have been introduced final night time (20 March) in a ceremony hosted by Ellie Taylor, comic and star from Ted Lasso, on the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square. The occasion was additionally attended by over 200 charities and a spread of celeb friends together with Shirley Ballas, Kimberley Wyatt, Professor Green, and Greg Wallace.
The Big Issue Corporate Cause Award, which shines a highlight on businesses that give again, went to Norwich FC for its movie on psychological well being that went viral throughout the nation final October for World Mental Health Day.
The Smiley Champion of Change Award went to Nada al-Ahdal for her work as a human rights activist, organising The Nada Foundation on the age of twenty-two. The awards additionally shine a lightweight on charities exterior of the UK by means of the Bicester Collection International Impact Award; which this 12 months went to World Childhood Foundation USA.
Categories are organised by turnover:
Longform Category Winners
- UK LSD received Longform Under £100,000
- Landworks received Longform £100,000 – £1 million
- Greenpeace UK received Longform £1 – £10 million
- London’s Air Ambulance received Longform Over £10 million
Individual Category Winners
- Menfulness took home the award for Under £100,000
- Host Nation for £100,000 – £250,000
- Synergy Theatre Project for £250,000 – £450,000
- Hull & East Yorkshire for £450,000 – £1mn
- Wellbeing of Women for £1-2.5mn
- Coppafeel for £2.5-5mn
- Born Free received £5-15mn
- SCOPE received £15-50mn
- AGE UK received the over £50mn class
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Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing each for and in regards to the charity and advertising companies sectors since 2001. She might be reached through thepurplepim.com.
