WeMindTheGap up for Centre for Social Justice Award
The CSJ Awards seek out the top charities nationwide, highlighting those that excel in innovation and effectiveness in the fight against poverty. The diverse panel of judges includes Akshata Murty, Rachel Riley and past CSJ Award winners along with experts from various sectors that come together to select the winners.
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The awards celebrate the best of the small charity sector who are providing innovative policy solutions to address the root causes of poverty across the UK.
WeMindTheGap gives new opportunities to young people 11-25yrs who deserve better. It fills the gaps in young people's lives, supporting them into employment, education, and independent lives. The charity's life changing programmes give under-served young people, paid work, mentoring, skills, confidence and connections.
Ali Wheeler, CEO of WeMindtheGap, said: "We are thrilled to have been chosen as a finalist in the 2025 CSJ Awards recognising the work we do to support young people who have fallen through the gaps in life, it is recognition that the young people we have the privilege to walk alongside matter, are seen and heard, and will give them more opportunities to influence their lives and futures generations."
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Andy Cook, CEO of the Centre for Social Justice, added: "While Westminster is in chaos and the rest of the world in convulsions, there's an army of small charities in some of our most challenged communities picking up the pieces and solving real-life problems.
"The CSJ Awards are the Oscars of the small charity sector, celebrating the best of the best of those unsung heroes.
"We are proud to announce our 12 2025 finalists. We will be announcing the five winners at our glittering CSJ Awards ceremony in the heart of Westminster this November."
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Rachel Riley MBE, co-presenter of Countdown, said: "It's a real pleasure to be back on the CSJ Awards Judging Panel for the second consecutive year! Yet again, this year's finalists have blown us away. The panel had a lively, three-hour debate, and I am confident that the winners are going to make a difference with the money, recognition and contacts that becoming a CSJ Award Winner brings.
"I'm really looking forward to meeting all the finalists in Westminster this November - they all deserve to be celebrated."
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