Awards 2024

The Resolve Poverty Awards are part of our annual event series. Tickets for our next event, the Resolve Poverty Annual Conference, are now on sale.

Celebrating people, organisations and networks making a real difference in resolving poverty across the UK

New for 2024, the Resolve Poverty Awards will celebrate those playing a significant role in tackling poverty in local areas and regions across the country. Award winners will be announced and celebrated across our media channels during our celebration week, 28 October – 1 November.

Award categories

Reducing health inequalities

This award recognises local or regional responses to poverty that focus on reducing health inequalities. Nominations should include those areas that can demonstrate that resolving poverty has been made a priority for local health services and partner organisations.

🏆 WINNER: Blackpool Citizens Advice – in recognition of their partnership with primary care providers, which has created a seamless referral pathway.

⭐ HIGHLY COMMENDED: Caritas Salford

Partnership working - strategy

This award recognises local or regional strategic responses to poverty. Nominations should demonstrate effective partnership working across sectors to develop and/or implement local anti-poverty strategies.

🏆 WINNER: Sovereign Network Group and Policy in Practice – in recognition of their commitment to supporting income maximisation, reducing arrears, and improving the quality of life for tenants.

⭐ HIGHLY COMMENDED: South Tyneside Council

Partnership working - action

This award recognises partnership-based local or regional anti-poverty activities focussed on reducing and/or preventing poverty. Nominations should evidence that partnership-based action is delivering impact against a set of measures/targets.

🏆 WINNER: One Stop Shop and Trafford Council – in recognition of the services provided by the One Stop Shop, which gives face-to-face advice to residents across Trafford.

Maximising the financial resources available to households

Nominations should demonstrate how they are either boosting household incomes, supporting residents with debt or reducing household outgoings at a local or regional level.  

🏆 WINNER: Stockport Council and partners – in recognition of their efforts to support financially struggling residents.

⭐ HIGHLY COMMENDED: South Tyneside Council‘s Welfare Support Team and Southway Housing Trust.

Business resolving poverty

The private sector has a crucial role to play in resolving poverty. This award recognises businesses that are actively improving the financial wellbeing of employees.  

🏆 WINNER: One+All – in recognition of their dedication to improving employment standards and wages.

Lived experience engagement

Nominations should demonstrate good practice in engaging people with lived experience of poverty in their community and how this engagement is leading to transformational change to strategic, policy or practice responses to poverty.

🏆 WINNER: Positive Living Forum and Stockton-on-Tees Council – in recognition of their anti-poverty strategy, shaped by the lived experience of residents.

What do winners receive?

Award winners receive a certificate and a range of publicity around their win. This includes offer of a video interview with us, mention in our newsletter and social media posts across our channels. We also provide a guide to help winners publicise their win, with template social media posts and a template press release.

How are winners selected?

Nominations are judged by an independent panel overseen by a member of the Resolve Poverty team. Please note, winners are not selected based on the number of nominations received.