Soma Sara is the Founder and CEO of Everyone's Invited, a UK charity dedicated to exposing and eradicating rape culture with empathy, compassion and understanding.

Since launching the movement in 2020, Soma has worked with survivors, schools, policymakers and communities to challenge the attitudes and structures that enable sexual violence. The Tenacious Campaigner Award will help strengthen Everyone's Invited's advocacy, expand its reach, and drive lasting change to create a society free from sexual violence.

Peter Geoghegan investigates the hidden influence of money and power in British politics. His reporting in his newsletter, Democracy for Sale, has exposed how dark money, lobbying and corporate interests can shape public policy and undermine democracy.

Peter’s award will support his work to uncover the networks and individuals influencing political decision-making, helping bring greater transparency to the way power operates in the UK.

Jo Hirst and Doreen Goldie’s campaign began in 2009 when they became aware of the toxic dangers of the spreading of sewage sludge on agricultural land in Scotland.

The award will help them achieve a moratorium on sewage sludge spreading until the full risks are investigated and an alternative means of disposal is adopted. It will help raise awareness of the impacts on human, animal and environmental health from sewage sludge spreading.

Delyth Fetherston Dilke campaigns to free UK furniture of toxic chemical flame retardants which have links to developmental issues in children. The UK is the only country worldwide to be using these chemicals in sofas.  

Delyth’s award will support her campaign to change the UK law and standards that currently see a fifth of a sofa filled with toxic flame retardants. 

After fighting for access to lifesaving cystic fibrosis (CF) medicines for her daughter in the UK, Gayle co-founded grassroots global campaign Vertex Save Us, now called CF Global, and later launched the Right to Breathe campaign with Just Treatment to empower other families to do the same.  She works with CF patients, families, clinicians and advocates worldwide to challenge governments, monopoly power, and the barriers that keep affordable treatments out of reach. 

This award will help grow this global movement, amplify patient voices, and empower more families to drive lasting change towards a future where affordable medicines are accessible to everyone who needs them.

Till Bruckner founded the TranspariMED campaign to improve healthcare and patient safety through greater transparency in medical research. Till’s award will help him to build a coalition that pushes UK regulators to assume responsibility for ensuring that all clinical trials are registered and reported.

Ian Russell, MBE, is Molly Russell’s father and one of the foremost tech accountability campaigners in the UK striving for an online world that is fundamentally safe for children and young people.

Ian’s award will support Molly Rose Foundation’s pushing for change to the business models of Big Tech companies that perpetuate online harm to young people and highlighting the levers to shift the power dynamic through influential industries such as advertising. 

George Julian is a knowledge transfer consultant, a researcher and a crowdfunded journalist. George reports from coroners courts when learning disabled and/or autistic people die because learning disabled people are dying decades before the general population and at nearly double the avoidable death rate. 

George’s award will enable her to review a decade of her reporting, identify learning that might prevent future deaths and develop key messages and outputs to challenge the social murder of learning disabled people.

Rachel Kelso is founder of Homecare Voices, a network of current and former homecare workers which brings new perspectives to national conversations about the future of adult social care.

Rachel's award will support Homecare Voices' campaign to improve the enforcement of existing employment rights for homecare workers, with a particular focus on National Minimum Wage compliance. People should feel confident that the workers supporting them in their homes are being treated with the same decency and dignity afforded to others.

Shlomo and Josh Dowen coordinate the UK’s anti-incineration movement under the banner of the UK Without Incineration Network (UKWIN). Since 2007, UKWIN has helped prevent around 200 waste incinerators from being built. Incinerator operators’ profit comes at the expense of the health of people and the environment. Incinerators are harming air quality and making climate change worse. The award will enable campaigners to expose the scale of these harms to help persuade councils to move away from waste incineration.

Andy Agathangelou is founder of the social enterprise Transparency Task Force, Chair of the Secretariat Committee to the APPG on Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services, and Chair of Trustees for a new charity dedicated to protecting consumer interests.

Andy's award will support his work holding financial companies and regulators to account, driving necessary reforms so that consumers are treated in a transparent, truthful, and trustworthy way; and ensuring those harmed - sometimes egregiously - get the redress and justice they deserve.