2020 - Winners

You can read about the 2020 winners below. Catch up on the virtual ceremony we held on 21 May 2020 here. You can also view all the 2020 shortlisted entries and read about governance at their organisations.

Get best practice tips and advice from our past and present judges on how to achieve good governance. View our useful list of governance resources to help your charity achieve exceptional governance.

Have you ever entered the Charity Governance Awards – or been shortlisted and/or won? We’d love to hear from you. We’ve commissioned an external five-year evaluation of the awards to help us understand what, if any, impact the awards are having and how we can improve. If you can spare 10 minutes, please take the survey (here).

Board Diversity and Inclusivity

2020 Winner

Public Interest Research Centre

Embracing Digital

2020 Winner

upReach

Embracing Opportunity and Harnessing Risk

2020 Winner

Muslim Women's Network UK

Improving Impact: Charities with 0-3 paid staff

2020 Winner

Older Citizens Advocacy York

Improving Impact – charities with 4-25 paid staff

2020 Winner

Sport 4 Life UK

Improving Impact – charities with 26+ paid staff

2020 Winner

St Mary's Hospice

Managing Turnaround

2020 Winner

Smallwood Trust