# Nominations open for Creative Shootout Charity of the Year 2025 with hidden disabilities theme

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/06/06/nominations-open-for-creative-shootout-charity-of-the-year-2025-with-hidden-disabilities-theme/
- Published: 2024-06-06T13:58:03+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Creative Shootout has opened nominations from UK charities to be its Charity
of the Year 2025, seeking nonprofits working to support, champion and protect those
with a hidden disability to enter.**

The Creative Shootout’s eighth outing will see the chosen Charity of the Year given
the opportunity to work with a leading UK creative agency and see their winning 
idea come to life in a national campaign, backed by media partners.

[To enter](https://www.creativeshootout.com/copy-of-charity-of-the-year), charities
must send in 250 words on why creativity will be important to them in 2025 with 
a closing date for entries of Wednesday 31 July.

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The Creative Shootout Live Final will take place on Thursday 30 January and will
see eight agency teams taking the stage in front of a live audience at BAFTA in 
London, responding to a brief that they have had four hours prep time on. They will
each have eight minutes to pitch their creative thinking to the judges and audience.

The winning agency gets a £10,000 prize and the opportunity to stage their winning
campaign for the charity, backed by media partners.

Johnny Pitt, Founder of The Creative Shootout, said:

> “So many of us think of ‘a disability’ as something obvious and visible. Yet for
> nearly 13 million people in the UK, a hidden disability is their every day, and
> way of life. So we need to change the narrative here, and are calling on the UK’s
> best creative agencies to enter this year’s Shootout to help transform a charity,
> and turbocharge their own creative reputation.”

Previous charities and causes that have taken part include UNICEF, Time to Change,
FareShare, A Plastic Planet, Crisis, FoodCycle and Carers UK.

Helen Walker, Chief Executive, [Carers UK](https://www.carersuk.org/), Charity of
the Year 2024, added:

> “Being The Creative Shootout’s chosen charity has been a hugely significant thing
> for Carers UK. Having the UK’s best creative talent laser focused on us for several
> months is something we could never have imagined. And getting to collaborate with
> the agency MullenLowe, essentially for free, along with some of the UK’s biggest
> media partners like Clear Channel, Sky Media and The Guardian, has been game changing
> for us – as well as for millions of unpaid carers across the UK. We are hugely
> grateful to everyone involved.”