Awards News

In more and more of our work with charities we’re seeing an increased demand for guidance on how to receive support from corporate companies, so we invited the Weston Charity Awards winners to attend a two-part series of workshops focusing on this. I share the top three tips:

"Pilotlight gave me the confidence to go for things –to stretch that little bit further."

“I felt like I was Dorothy on the yellow brick road! The Weston Charity Awards gave me the courage to put on paper what I had in my head about where we could be and made me believe we could get there.”

The latest winners of the Weston Charity Awards have been revealed today at a celebration event held at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum.

“When you first start you feel like you’re putting down all these pieces of a jigsaw, looking for how they fit together.

Simone Spray, Chief Executive of 42nd Street, and previous Weston

Sixteen charities working in the areas of youth, welfare and community have won the Weston Charity Awards this year and, alongside funding, they will have access to a team of senior business leaders through the Pilotlight 360.

After two successful years in the North of England, the Weston Charity Awards are now expanding to support a larger pool of charities in the region and, for the first time, in the Midlands.

Over the last year, six charities from across the North East of England have had access to a team of senior business leaders through Pilotlight, as