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The Grand Appeal wins Fundraising Team of the Year at Charity Times Awards
Melanie May | 3 October 2016 | News
The Grand Appeal has won Fundraising Team of the Year (with an income over £5m) at last month’s Charity Times Awards for its Shaun the Sheep fundraising sculpture trail.
The trail raised more than £1m for Bristol Children’s Hospital and children’s hospitals and hospices across the UK, attracting over 1m visitors keen to track down the 70 sculptures dotted around the city. The Grand Appeal also won Highly Commended in the Fundraising Technology category, for its Shaun in the City: Sheep Spotter app.
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The app was developed with Aardman’s digital team and topped the official App Store chart within 24 hours of launching. Voted one of the best apps of 2015 by Google, it was downloaded more than 80,000 times in total, with The Grand Appeal receiving proceeds from every purchase.
The Grand Appeal is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year, and has generated £40million for Bristol Children’s Hospital during this time.
Bowel Cancer UK won Charity of the Year, for championing early diagnosis of bowel cancer and improving access to best treatment and care for all those closely affected by the disease. It was also shortlisted for the Charity Times Awards Campaigning Team of the Year for its Never Too Young campaign, which aims to improve the diagnosis, treatment and care of people under the age of 50 with bowel cancer.
Winners included:
Charity of the Year: with an income of more than £10 million
Refuge
Charity of the Year: with an income of £1 million – £10 million
Bowel Cancer UK
Highly commended: Signhealth
Charity of the Year: with an income of less than £1 million
Tyne Gateway Trust
Outstanding Individual Achievement
Tony Elischer
Best New Charity
The Tutor Trust
International Charity
BRAC
Change Project of the Year
Parkinson’s UK
Campaigning Team of the Year
Diabetes UK
Fundraising Team of the Year with an income under £5m
Community Foundation for Calderdale
Fundraising Team of the Year with an income over £5 million
The Grand Appeal
Best Use of Technology
Autism East Midlands
Best Use of the Web
Shelter
Fundraising Technology Award
Cancer Research UK
Highly commended: The Grand Appeal
Community Award
For Jimmy
Highly commended: Newham All Star Sports Academy
Corporate Community Local Involvement
Bank of New York/BNY Mellon/Community Links
Corporate National Partnership Champion
Missing People & Outsmart
Corporate National Partnership of the Year with a Financial Institution
Place2Be & Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Highly commended: The Prince’s Trust & NatWest
Corporate National Partnership of the Year with a Retailer
Oxfam & Waterstones
Corporate Social Responsibility Project of the Year
Samaritans, Network Rail & Rail Industry Suicide Stakeholder Group
Cross-sector Partnership of the Year
The Scout Association, Canal & River Trust, Alzheimer’s Society, Leonard Cheshire Disability, Guide Dogs, Mind, and Water Aid
Picture: Suzanne Maverick and Kate Jones from The Grand Appeal receiving their Charity Times Award
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Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.