# St John Ambulance wins Charity Film of the Year Award

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/21/st-john-ambulance-wins-charity-film-year-award/
- Published: 2017-03-21T09:00:25+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**St John Ambulance, Alzheimer’s Society, and The Loss Foundation are among the 
winners of this year’s inaugural Charity Film Awards.**

 

The winners were announced on 15th March, with [St John Ambulance](https://www.sja.org.uk/)
winning Charity Film of the Year for its Save a Choking Baby ad.

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The [Charity Film Awards](http://www.CharityFilmAwards.com) celebrate the sector’s
use of video, whether for awareness, changing attitudes and behaviours, or fundraising,
with winners picked by a combination of public votes and a panel of expert judges,
with more than 65,000 members of the public voting for their favourite charity films.

 

 

 

 

The winners:

 

 * The People’s Choice Award: [Soi Dog Foundation](https://www.soidog.org/)
 * Long-Form / Documentaries Award: Restorative Justice Council with RWD / FWD, 
   created with Fully Focused Productions
 * £0-10,000 Turnover Award: Communities for Development with Bulambuli Valley
 * £10-100,000 Turnover Award: [The Loss Foundation](http://thelossfoundation.org/)
   with I Won’t Go Quiet
 * £100-500,000 Turnover Award: Support and Love Via Education International
 * £500,000-5m Turnover Award: The National Holocaust Centre and Museum with The
   Forever Project
 * £5m – £50m Turnover Award: Royal Trinity Hospice with the Trinity Story
 * £50m+ Turnover Award: [Alzheimer’s Society](https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/) with
   Memory Walk 2016
 * Charity Film of The Year: St John Ambulance with the Chokeables Advert: Save 
   a Choking Baby

 

 

 

 

Simon Burton co-founder of the Charity Film Awards, said:

 

> “The Charity Film Awards celebrate how charities use video, whether for fundraising,
> raising awareness to change behaviour. The films that won this evening are stunning
> examples of modern charity communications, We had over 375 charities enter the
> Awards and it is a great achievement for all those charities who made it through
> as finalists.”

 

Main image: Charity Film of the Year winner St John Ambulance, presented by Linda
Robson and Sally Phillips

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