🎯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. #SmallCharityWeek

📣CumbriaYouthAlliance are finalists for the 2025 CSJ Awards. 💼They equip young people with skills, confidence and pathways into work. 📊49% in their Forging Futures programme secured sustained employment - nearly double the national benchmark of 28%. #SmallCharityWeek

Wonderful to have Key4Life , Alliance Charity and former CSJ Awards Winner, Kemi Badenoch's speech today🏆 Martha highlighted their crucial work helping young ex-offenders back into employment across🇬🇧. They're tackling one of our key pathways to poverty on-the-ground👏

🚨The Chancellor’s £500m Better Futures Fund is promising - as we have long argued, there is huge potential in harnessing private philanthropy to tackle poverty and change lives. But we cannot lock out smaller charities. Their local impact is irreplicable. 🧵(1/6)

📸SPOTTED: Alliance charity TimeGivers encouraging young people to volunteer in Wandsworth📍 These opportunities are hard to find for young people but worthwhile - those who volunteer are 3x more likely to volunteer as an adult. Find out more 👉 timegivers.com

📺WATCH: The small voluntary sector is the frontline of the battle against poverty. We are determined to ensure these grassroots heroes are no longer overlooked or underfunded. 🗣️CSJ Chief Exec Andy Cook with John Reynolds