# 2021 Charity Film Awards open for entries

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/06/23/2021-charity-film-awards-open-for-entries/
- Published: 2021-06-23T07:58:00+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The annual free to enter Charity Film Awards are now open for entries, with a 
six week window for submissions.**

Charities are categorised based on income generated in the last financial year, 
with the awards broken down into eight turnover categories ranging from an annual
income of between zero and £10,000 to £500 million and over. For each bracket the
awards body selects a gold, silver and bronze winner. As well as the judges’ selection,
there is a People’s Choice category, voted on by the public, and an overall winner.

More than 1,500 films have entered the [Charity Film Awards](https://smileymovement.org/charityfilmawards)
so far over the course of its five-year history. Over a quarter of a million members
of the public have voted with the competition resulting in millions of views for
the participating organisations. 

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Last year’s winners included the Shahid Afridi Foundation, an organisation improving
basic services in Pakistan, which won the People’s Choice award for the income bracket
of £100,000 to £500,000, and The Salvation Army, which, with a film to raise the
profile of its campaign tackling modern slavery, won the People’s Choice Award for
charities with a turnover of over £100 million.

The Charity Film Awards joined forces with [Smiley Movement](https://smileymovement.org/)
in March this year and is encouraging charities and corporate causes to submit films
to compete for public recognition. Any registered charity, CIC, social enterprise,
charity media agency or brand with a corporate social responsibility initiative 
can enter a film in the awards, provided the film was first broadcast in the last
eighteen months.

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