Boss & Brew Academy is a Cardiff-based social enterprise empowering young people through the art of coffee. Focused on boosting confidence, enhancing employability, and promoting diversity in hospitality, the charity offers free barista training and work experience opportunities to young people who might otherwise struggle to access them. With deep community ties, the organisation is tackling Cardiff’s youth unemployment, building skills, transforming futures, and inspiring positive change.
Dad La Soul is reshaping the narrative of fatherhood with its unique Trojan Horse approach. By providing dads with a kick-ass social life and a ready-made, expert, peer-led support network, they create a space for fathers to talk about what they usually ignore. Many dads feel isolated and overwhelmed, struggling with the pressures of parenthood and modern life. Through their sessions, Dad La Soul helps fathers reconnect, find support, and strengthen their roles.
The Will Garvey Trust Foundation, based in Derbyshire, was established following the death of Will Garvey. Its mission is to create ‘talking communities’ to prevent youth suicide. Through Wellbeing Libraries, Workshops, and Care Packs, the Foundation supports young people facing mental health challenges. Their impactful initiatives offer vital resources and reassurance, fostering a community where young people feel heard, supported, and hopeful.
Howarths Foundation tackles homelessness in Yorkshire through training, mentorship, and employment opportunities. Their “Business Building Futures” programme helps individuals rebuild their lives by fostering independence and reducing stigma. Donations support vital services like housing advice and job training, creating hope and dignity for vulnerable people.
Jubilee Life College delivers free daytime courses across three 10‑week terms to boost confidence, social skills, qualifications, and well‑being for adults from marginalised backgrounds including unemployment, mental‑health challenges, social exclusion, and learning differences. Open at multiple Hull venues, it offers photography, cooking, fitness, crafts, games, and recovery groups.
Brinsley Animal Rescue is a passionate, volunteer-led charity in Nottinghamshire that offers a lifeline to neglected, injured, and unwanted animals. From ex-farm animals and abandoned pets to injured wildlife, they provide specialist care, rehabilitation, and safe sanctuary. Every animal receives compassion and a second chance, thanks to the team’s tireless efforts and support from their community of animal lovers and advocates.
Founded in memory of Andrea Key, Yorkshire’s Brain Tumour Charity (YBTC) has spent over two decades providing expert, compassionate support to people across Yorkshire affected by brain tumours. Through peer networks, wellbeing events, and financial help, they’re there for families when it matters most. YBTC also funds ground-breaking research in Yorkshire, helping to address one of the most underfunded and devastating cancers in the UK today.
HER Breast Friends has been supporting people affected by breast cancer since 2005, offering practical help, emotional support, and uplifting activities that bring people together
Across the UK, rising levels of poverty, homelessness and hardship are placing growing pressure on frontline services. Charities like The Brick are stepping in to meet these challenges with practical, community-based support. Based in Wigan, they offer help to people experiencing homelessness, financial crisis or trauma.
DSD Families is a national charity supporting children and families affected by Differences of Sex Development – a group of rare conditions where a person’s chromosomes, reproductive organs, or hormone levels develop differently from typical patterns. In the UK, a baby is born with a DSD condition every three days. The charity offers expert resources and peer support to help reduce isolation and improve confidence for those affected.
Scotland’s landscape, whilst impressive and what many would use as an example of a healthy landscape, is anything but. Compared to what it was only a few hundred years ago, it is devoid of life. Devastated boggy grassland and treeless moors stretching beyond the horizon has become the dominant land type.
The Foundation worked with the Inga Foundation to produce several films to help them raise awareness of this issue and their solution.
National Park Rescue works to protect African national parks at risk due to the poaching of wildlife. They work on the ground with locally recruited people to restore law enforcement and tackle corruption where it is affecting a park’s long-term survival.
This project focuses on bringing local & foreign specialists together at the heart of conservation in Africa, giving them the skills and support they need to be effective on the ground. In short, we’re helping to build real leaders in a continent that desperately needs it.
Mires Beck is a registered charity attached to a working nursery and conservation site in East Yorkshire, providing work experience and social therapeutic horticulture for adults who live with the challenges of learning difficulties, Autism and physical disabilities.
Make a Medic is a charity created by junior doctors in the UK, to support medical education and public health initiatives in developing countries. The ethos of Make a Medic is to make more medics abroad and improve health outcomes within their communities.
Creative Packs Cancer Charity was created by Charlotte Murphy during the lockdown of 2020. Its aim is to provide Creative Packs to young cancer patients in hospital, who due to their treatment face long periods of isolation.
The Clothing Bank was set up in January 2020 when Sally and Susan realised there were people struggling to clothe themselves and didn’t know where to go for help. Two years later and they now have 80 drop off points around Yorkshire where they collect pre-loved clothing that is sorted and given to people in need.
Biosmart is a student-run and funded social enterprise that aims to alleviate fuel poverty through both environmentally and culturally sustainable means. As a collective, they create and commercialise Biochar, which is a sustainable alternative to charcoal using agricultural waste from the respective local areas in Kadzinuni, Kenya, Zanzibar and Tanzania.
Our Only World is a charity passionate about the fight against plastic, the protection of our seas and marine conservation education. Inspired by Living Sea Walls Australia who were finalists in last year’s Earthshot Prize, Our Only World’s latest project is to retrofit living ocean walls in Plymouth Harbour adjacent to the National Aquarium to stimulate marine abundance and biodiversity.