WRS Insurance Brokers are delighted to be sponsoring the Local Community Initiative Award in the new Benefact Group Charity Heroes Awards. The Awards are new to the Benefact Group calendar of giving and designed to celebrate and support charities working tirelessly to make positive change.
The Local Community Initiative Award sets out to celebrate a project which has reached the heart of a local community to tackle a local issue.
WRS Insurance Brokers’ Head of Broking & Operations, Gungor Baykan says: “With over 50 years’ experience in insuring charities, social care and community enterprises, we are delighted to be supporting local charities in the new Charity Heroes Awards. The Local Community Initiative Award recognises and supports local, community charities for whom receiving the £5,000 winners award, or one of the £1,000 runner-up awards will make such a difference to the work they do. Many of our clients are small, community charities so we have an understanding of the challenges they face and how just valuable this opportunity is.”
The Charity Heroes Awards offer a simple entry process, requiring just a 250-word pitch for each of the six award categories; Local Community Initiative, Climate Action Project, Volunteer of the Year, Small Charity – Big Impact, Charity Leader of the Year and Digital Fundraising Initiative.
The Charity Heroes Awards are open to charities based in the UK and Ireland. Entries are open until Friday 26th July. Winning charities will be awarded £5,000 and runners up will receive £1,000. Charities are invited to apply online via a quick and simple form for one of the six awards categories.
The awards ceremony will be a lunchtime Awards event held on 28th November at the Tower of London, where the winners and runners-up in each category will be announced. The day promises to provide a truly memorable experience for all those shortlisted.
Mark Hews, Group Chief Executive of Benefact Group, says: “We are delighted to announce the launch of Benefact Group’s Charity Heroes Awards 2024. This new Awards programme celebrates and supports charities working tirelessly to make positive change. Benefact Group is a family of award-winning specialist financial services companies and the third largest corporate donor to charity in the UK. Owned by a charity ourselves, charitable giving is at the heart of what we do. All of our available profits go to good causes and the more the Group grows, the more the Group can give.”
Owned by Benefact Group, WRS Insurance Brokers specialise in the not-for-profit sector alongside providing business and property insurance, all from an ethical standpoint. The company provides tailor made insurance cover for charities, churches and care and community groups.
Benefact Group has donated over £200million to charitable causes since 2014 and has been recognised as the third biggest corporate giver in the UK1. The organisation aims to reach £250million in donations by 2025.
