Market Field Farm enables young adults with a learning disability, autism and/or ADHD to access meaningful paid employment. Working with local people, companies and parish councils to conserve natural habitats, create wildlife-friendly gardens and help maintain public spaces with conservation and nature in mind, the charity gives young people with learning disabilities a stepping stone into work.

The Gleaning Cornwall Network organises volunteer groups to harvest crops that would otherwise go to waste and distributes this fresh produce to food banks and food poverty charities. The project and its ever-growing network is helping to build healthy and resilient communities, bringing together volunteer harvesters, drivers, local farmers and people who work with and use food banks and food poverty charities.

For many years Africa has had a problem with waste plastic. Huge quantities are consumed (particularly, but not limited to, water bottles), and most of it finds its way into landfill sites or is just dumped on the roadsides. Wanting to help, a UK charity called Throw a Starfish that works in Africa launched a project earlier this year to set up a plastic recycling plant in Kenya.

Girls Assemble is creating a dedicated workshop based in Cornwall offering girls and young women aged 9-25 the opportunity to build the world they want to live in. This female-only workshop will provide classes in carpentry, welding, architecture, engineering, and activist art with an emphasis on STEM subjects as well as working in the local community to build projects that matte

The Fix it to Ride project by Leeds Bike Mill provides refurbished recycled bikes to asylum seekers and refugees adjusting to life in and around the city of Leeds.

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.

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.

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.

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.