Click on the tabs below to reveal the shortlisted projects and organisations per category.

Best Creative Partner to the Legacy Sector

Finalists:

  • Catsnake: The Story Agency Turning Stories into Legacy Growth - Catsnake & RNIB
  • Consider, Canal & River Trust - Legacy Kingfisher Campaign
  • DTV, NSPCC Legacy DRTV advert
  • Mambo Media, Let's Keep Remembering (Julia's House) / Moments That Matter (Weldmar Hospicecare)
  • The Saltways, Ethical video production company
  • RAW London, This Is Hospice Care
Best Legal Partner

Finalists:

  • Foot Anstey LLP, Empowering and supporting Charities to Maximise Legacy Income
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • Make a Will Online, Embedded Solicitor Support and Legacy Loop for Legacy-Confident Charities
Best Will Writing Partner

Finalists:

  • Capacity Marketing for Charities; organisers of the Free Wills Month campaign and the National Free Wills Network programme, Free Wills services for all charities
  • Farewill, Empowering Charities Through Will‑Writing Excellence
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • Make a Will Online, Where Wishes Become Legacies: A Solicitor-Led Partnership Empowering Charities to Inspire, Protect and Grow Gifts in Wills
  • Octopus Legacy
Crispin Ellison Bursary Award

Finalists:

  • Clatterbridge Cancer Charity, Megan Owen - Legacy and In Memory Fundraiser
  • Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home, Development in Charity Legacy Management
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSH Charity), Legacy Management Team
  • Safe Child Thailand, Your Legacy Sponsorship
  • The National Trust, Legacy Development
  • University of Birmingham, Legacy Team, Development & Alumni Relations Office
  • World Cancer Research Fund, Crispin Ellison Bursary Award
  • Worldwide Cancer Research, Crispin Ellison Bursary Award
  • Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Legacy Programme
Digital Innovation in Legacy Giving

Finalists:

  • Action for Children, Digital Innovation in Legacy Giving
  • British Red Cross, Accelerating Legacy Growth Through Accessible Digital Innovation, Multi‑Channel Diversification and Data‑Driven Creative Optimisation
  • Christian Aid, Legacy lead gen campaign September 2025
  • NSPCC, Legacy Products team
  • Shelter, The People's Manifesto
Excellence in Stewardship

Finalists:

  • Arthritis UK, Gifts in Wills team
  • Canal & River Trust, Bringing supporters closer to our work
  • Essex Wildlife Trust, Connecting People and Nature Through Careful Stewardship
  • North West Air Ambulance Charity, Building a personalised legacy supporter journey
  • NSPCC, Executorship Stewardship Project
  • ShelterBox Trust, A Legacy of Love: Stewarding Major Donors for the Ultimate Gift
  • Victoria & Albert Museum, The Henry Cole Circle
  • World Vision UK, Legacy Stewardship
Legacy Campaign of the Year

Finalists:

  • Amnesty International UK, Autumn Prospect Campaign - Never Back Down
  • Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Extraordinary Things
  • BBC Children in Need, Reaching New Legacy Audiences Through the Asda Rewards App
  • Canal & River Trust, Birdwatcher
  • Dorothy House, It's in your gift / Write your own ending
  • East Anglian Air Ambulance, Legacy DM Campaign: Warm Supporter Acquisition
  • Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home, Gifts in Wills Campaign
  • Hospice UK (RAW London), This is Hospice Care
  • Macmillan Cancer Support, Chain of Giving
  • Muscular Dystrophy UK, Change the Story
  • Oxfam, Stay in the Fight 2025 campaign
  • Shelter, The People's Manifesto
  • St John's Hospice, North Lancashire and South Lakes, I'll Always Remember
  • St Wilfrid's Hospice Chichester, Community Legacy Campaign
  • The Air Ambulance Service, The 1/7 Campaign
  • University of Exeter, Legacy Spring Mailing
  • YHA (England & Wales), YHA Legacy Teams
Legacy Champion of the Year

Finalists:

  • Claire House Children's Hospice, Legacy Strategy - Regional and National
  • Hospice UK, This Is Hospice Care
  • Macmillan Cancer Support, Lee-anne Menzies
Legacy Event of the Year

Finalists:

  • Alzheimer's Research UK, Walk with a scientist
  • British Red Cross, Harewood House Community Legacy Event
  • Dorset Wildlife Trust, Legacy acquisition events 2025
  • Essex Wildlife Trust, Legacy Team
  • Magpas Air Ambulance, Supporting Tomorrow's Missions
  • Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF UK), For Such a Time as This
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Legacies & Commemorative (Development Directorate)
  • The Air Ambulance Service, Northampton Thank you event
  • The Leprosy Mission Great Britain, 2025 Legacy Events: Afternoon Tea with Pam Rhodes
  • The National Gallery, Legacy Celebration and Private View of 'Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350'
  • Word Vision UK, Legacy of Love event
Legacy Team of the Year

Finalists:

  • Age UK, Age UK Legacy Management Team of the Year
  • Alzheimer's Society, Legacy Team
  • Canal & River Trust, Taking our legacy programme to the next level
  • Guide Dogs, A shared vision
  • Macmillan Cancer Support, Legacy Team (Fundraising and Administration)
  • Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, Excellence in Legacy Administration
  • National Trust, The Legacy Manual Project
  • North West Air Ambulance Charity, Building a Legacy for the North West Air Ambulance Charity
  • NSPCC, Legacy Management and Legacy and Tribute team
  • Oxfam, Building a high performing Legacy Engagement Team
  • Rethink Mental Illness and Mental Health UK, Above and Beyond: Stewarding the Living Through Compassionate Legacy and In Memory Care Across Two National Mental Health Charities
  • Marie Curie, Marie Curie Legacy Administration Team
  • Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, Legacy Marketing Team
  • Shelter, Legacy Team of the Year 2026
  • The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (The RSPCA), The RSPCA Legacy Fundraising Team
  • World Vision, Legacy and Gift in Memory Team
Outstanding Partner to the Legacy Sector

Finalists:

  • Capacity Marketing for Charities, Free Wills Month and the National Free Wills Network
  • Digilegal Ltd (t/a Make a Will Online), A Solicitor-Led, Data-Driven Legacy Partnership Empowering Charities with Secure Will-Writing, Real-Time Insight and Sector-Wide Learning
  • Foot Anstey LLP, Maximising Legacy Impact Through Strategic Legal and Property Expertise
  • Just Clear Limited, Helping charities across the UK increase legacy income
  • Octopus Legacy
  • Probate.Auction, Driving Legacy Income With The Power of Auctions
The Future Leader Bursary Award

Category Partner:


Finalists:

  • Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex, Legacy Transformation: From Passive to Proactive
  • Hospice in the Weald, Jenny Connolly