🌟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

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🏆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

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