Pregnant Then Screwed and the Royal Osteoporosis Society win big at the Third Sector Awards

Pregnant Then Screwed and the Royal Osteoporosis Society were the big winners at this year’s Third Sector Awards. 

Pregnant Then Screwed, which tackles maternity discrimination and supports pregnant women and mothers, won Small Charity of the Year, the Small Charity, Big Achiever award and Communications Campaign of the Year. 

The charity won the latter award for its March of the Mummies, which saw 15,000 parents take to the streets in 11 UK cities in October last year to demand government reform of childcare, flexible working and parental leave. 

The Royal Osteoporosis Society took home Medium Charity of the Year, the Finance Excellence award and the prize for Marketing Campaign of the Year, which recognised its Osteoporosis Risk Checker. 

The winners were announced at a lunch event at the Royal Lancaster hotel in central London, hosted by the comedian Maisie Adam.

Other winners included the Aberlour Children’s Charity, which won Large Charity of the Year, while Lindsay Boswell, who recently left the food waste-reduction charity FareShare UK after 13 years, was named Charity Chief Executive of the Year. 

Janine Hawkins of the tree-planting charity Trees for Cities won Charity Chair of the Year and Gavin Crane of the construction industry charity Band of Builders took home the Rising Chief Executive award. 

Claire Richards, from the band Steps, was named Celebrity Charity Champion for her work with Marie Curie. 

The charity insurer Ansvar was the headline sponsor of this year’s Third Sector Awards.

The full list of winners: 

Best Charity Film (Large) – Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice, From That Moment

Best Charity Film (Medium) – Don’t Panic and The Kite Factory, We Built This Town

Best Charity Film (Small) – Glasgow Caledonian University and Media Co-op, Gemma’s Story

Best Service Delivery Innovation – The Mighty Creatives, creative mentoring

Best Use of Social Media – The Mix 

Big Impact Award – The Who is Hussain Foundation, Global Blood Heroes

Breakthrough of the Year – Carers in Bedfordshire, service delivery transformation

Brand Development – Speech and Language UK

Celebrity Charity Champion – Claire Richards, Marie Curie 

Charity Chair of the Year – Janine Hawkins, Trees for Cities

Charity Chief Executive of the Year – Lindsay Boswell, FareShare UK

Charity Partnership of the Year – Turkish Cypriot Community Association, Türkiye and Syria earthquake initiative

Communications Campaign of the Year – Pregnant Then Screwed, March of the Mummies Communications Agency of the Year – 89Up 

Communications Team of the Year – British Red Cross Media Team 

Corporate Partnership of the Year (Large) – Tesco and the Trussell Trust

Corporate Partnership of the Year (Medium) – Global Action Plan and Unilever

Corporate Partnership of the Year (Small) – Band of Builders and Jewson

Digital Innovation of the Year – SuperKind

Finance Excellence – Royal Osteoporosis Society 

Frontline Team of the Year – Refugee Council 

Fundraising Campaign of the Year – Bookmark Reading Charity 

Fundraising Team of the Year – Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance

Large Charity of the Year – Aberlour Children’s Charity 

Marketing Campaign of the Year – Royal Osteoporosis Society’s Osteoporosis Risk Checker Medium Charity of the Year – Royal Osteoporosis Society 

Rising Chief Executive – Gavin Crane, Band of Builders 

Rising Star – Lasith Ranasinghe, Make a Medic 

Small Charity of the Year – Winner: Pregnant Then Screwed

Small Charity, Big Achiever – Pregnant Then Screwed

Volunteer of the Year – Fatuma Ibrahim, Refugee Council 

Volunteer Team of the Year – The Scout Association