Posted on 8th December 2011
The winners and runners-up of this year’s Directory of Social Change (DSC) Social Change Awards include funders and philanthropists. The winners were chosen by public vote.
Community Development Foundation (CDF) won the Great Giving Funders Award for taking a community development approach to funding, from design through to evaluation.
CDF director of programmes Lesley Chambers said: “We are always listening to communities to see how we can improve our grant application services to them. We never fail to be impressed by the time and commitment given by volunteers to their communities. We are pleased that they find it easy to access the funds we distribute on behalf of our sponsors. This award has given CDF even more motivation to make grant applications as easy as possible.”
The winners in thelife-time Achievement Award were Angela and Neil Dickson for increasing the amount of high quality research into brain tumours in the UK. The couple set up the Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust in memory of their daughter who died of a brain tumour at the age of 16. Neil Dickson gave up his job to work for the charity and has raised over £10m for research and support.
Philanthropist Jack Petchey was the runner-up in the Life-time Achievement Award for the work he has funded in education in London and Essex. The Jack Petchey Foundation gives grants to programmes and projects that benefit young people aged 11-25. It has given over £65m in grants so far and set up an academy school in the east London borough of Hackney.
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Jack Petchey young at heart
