Deadline: 9 August 2024
The Human Trafficking Foundation is excited to announce the Nominations for the Anti-Slavery Day Awards.
Categories
- Outstanding Contributions
- Reducing Vulnerabilities (Advocacy Award): This category recognises those working to achieve systemic change to reduce the prevalence of modern slavery or improving outcomes for survivors’ rights and entitlements on a longterm basis. Examples of work within this category could include campaigns to support individuals to access their rights or advocacy for rights-based policy change.
- Rebuilding Lives (Frontline Award): This category recognises those enhancing support for survivors. It considers work that takes a holistic approach to addressing individual needs and helps survivors rebuild their lives and strengthen resilience.
- Empowering Survivor Voices: This category recognises the impact of survivor leaders’ voices who have shaped the agenda and empowered others to do the same. This award also celebrates those whose work is consistently informed by the lived experienced of survivors.
- Statutory Services Award: This category recognises the outstanding contribution of statutory services who have gone above and beyond their legal duties to respond to modern slavery. Examples of work within this category could be an individual who has championed modern slavery or an organisation who has embedded a systems-change approach.
- Media Categories
- The Anti-Slavery Day Media Awards recognise the work of journalists and writers who have highlighted the nature and prevalence of modern slavery and human trafficking and sought to improve understanding.
- The media categories are as follows:
- Best written opinion piece dealing with modern slavery or human trafficking
- Best news piece dealing with modern slavery or human trafficking
- Best investigative news article dealing with modern slavery or human trafficking
- Best broadcast piece dealing with modern slavery or human trafficking
Award Information
- Each award winner will receive a grant of £1000 from Marsh Awards Trust.
Who can submit a nomination?
- Anyone professionally connected to modern slavery or anyone who benefits from the services that an organisation responding to modern slavery provides can submit a nomination.
- They do not accept self-nominations or nominations for the organisation you work for.
- They do not encourage, and no additional points will be awarded for, multiple nominations of the same nominee.
Who can be nominated?
- Any individual, organisation or group that has made a significant contribution to preventing or addressing modern slavery in the UK.
- They welcome nominations for voluntary, public and private sectors. Nominations of public officials are welcomed.
- All nominations will be judged on the additional following criteria:
- Working in partnership/collaboration
- Working to improve long-term outcomes for survivors
- Innovation and or demonstration of why this approach works well
- Going beyond what is expected
For more information, visit Human Trafficking Foundation.
