The 2026 Impact Awards
Celebrating excellence in
CSR, Volunteering, and Sustainability
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Why Enter?
Winning an OnHand Impact Award isn’t just about recognition—it’s about inspiring others, attracting top talent, and showing the world that your company is leading the way in CSR. These awards help build momentum, create internal pride, and strengthen your brand’s reputation as a force for good.
“Businesses today recognise that driving social and environmental impact is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’—it’s essential. The OnHand Impact Awards celebrate companies leading the way in embedding CSR into their culture, inspiring employees, and making a real difference in communities and for the planet.
Year 1 was such a success, with entries from household names to tiny start-ups and a panel of judges across tech for good, academia, grassroots and international charities, and government advisers on social impact. Incredibly excited to see and share the stories from entries in 2026.”
Sanjay Lobo MBE, OnHand Founder
The 2026 Categories
Volunteering Excellence
Award
Recognising the companies with the highest engagement and impact through volunteering.
Best Community Impact Award
Honours companies for executing a standout volunteering project that made a tangible difference.
Rising Volunteering Leader Award
Acknowledges a company that has shown significant growth in volunteer engagement over the past year.
Best First-Year Impact Award
Celebrates companies that have made a significant & measurable impact during their first year of implementing a new programme or strategy.
Best DEI Engagement Initiative Award
Recognises a successful employee-driven DEI program that fosters a culture of belonging.
Sustainability Champion Award
For a company with outstanding environmental action and measurable CO2e reductions.
Impact Leader of the Year Award
The highest honour for a company that excels across volunteering, DEI, and/or sustainability.
Best Employee Engagement Strategy Award
Recognises a standout strategy to engage employees in CSR, volunteering, DEI, or sustainability initiatives.
Previous Winners
OnHand Volunteer of the Year
Recognising the top 50 volunteers who have made the most volunteering impact using OnHand.
Hand-picked by Team OnHand.
OnHand Sustainability Star of the Year
Recognising the top 50 users who have reduced the most CO2e through using OnHand.
Hand-picked by Team OnHand.
The 2026 Judges
Dr William Fleming
Research Fellow
Wellbeing Research Centre, Oxford University
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Dr. William Fleming is Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford.
His research addresses what works, and what doesn't work, for improving workplace wellbeing. Findings from his research have been covered in international media, including New York Times, Financial Times and many more.
Notably, William's findings highlight the benefits for employees from engaging in corporate volunteering.
Caroline Monkhouse Flower
CEO
FEAST With Us
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Caroline is CEO of FEAST With Us, a London-based charity that aims to improve the nutrition, health and wellbeing of people at risk of food insecurity. Prior to joining FEAST she was COO for nutrition and food technology start-up Kafoodle. After starting her career as a food buyer, she has over 15 years’ experience working in a variety of roles in food and nutrition, as well as 10 years in management consulting, leading business transformation and corporate merger integration programmes. Through volunteering for baby bank charity Little Village she got to see first-hand the amazing impact that charities can have on their local communities and residents, which led to a career move from the commercial to charity sector, joining FEAST in 2022.
Alex Young
MD
Projects
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Alex is an expert in career development and workplace culture, specialising in launching and scaling shared workspaces across the UK. Her work has supported thousands of organisations in their growth, creating environments where businesses and individuals thrive.
Caroline Beard
Head of Strategic Innovation
RNIB
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Caroline began her career agency side as strategic planner on brands including Audi, Warburton’s, Direct Line and BBC. Her desire to drive positive change led to a focus on charity and public sector based marketing and innovation and she has developed government behaviour change programmes as well as brand and fundraising strategies and campaigns for CRUK, RNLI, WWF, Save the Children, RSPB and many other charities. Since moving charity side she has led Insight, Strategy and Innovation at Breakthrough Breast Cancer (Breast Cancer Now) as well as heading up Acquisition, Retention and Innovation teams at NSPCC. She is currently Head of Strategic Innovation at RNIB where her focus is on using design thinking to drive improvements and develop new propositions that deliver impact and income.
Dhiraj Mukherjee
Co-founder of Shazam & Impact Investor
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Dhiraj built Shazam from the original idea into an iconic global brand with over 2 billion downloads. He led Shazam’s successful launch, navigated two financial crises, raised tens of millions in funding, and learned all about hypergrowth. He was named one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs by the Financial Times. Since Shazam’s sale to Apple for a reported $400M, he has invested in many high-growth start-ups and scale-ups. Dhiraj’s expertise is building adaptable organisations ready to create an inflection point in the future.
He is now an international keynote speaker on AI, adaptable leadership, climate action and the workforce of the future. As a Tech for Good investor, Dhiraj has a front-row view of the future. He has invested in over 250 cutting-edge companies from climate tech to AI, including OpenAI (creators of ChatGPT).
Jamie Broderick
Deputy Chair
Impact Investing Institute
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Jamie Broderick is Deputy Chair of the Impact Investing Institute, an independent, non-profit UK organisation that aims to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the impact investing market. The Institute is supported by the UK's Government Inclusive Economy Unit, the City of London Corporation, and a number of financial services organisations in the UK.
Jamie was head of UBS Wealth Management in the UK from 2013-2017. Jamie joined UBS after nineteen years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, latterly as Chief Executive of its European business. He joined J.P. Morgan in New York in 1993 and moved to London in 1996.
Cozzi Baring
Head of B2B Marketing
Olio
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Cozzi heads up B2B Marketing at Olio, a company on a mission to help businesses of all shapes and sizes waste less food, by sharing any surplus with the community.
Powered by a national network of 130,000 passionate, trained volunteers,Olio helps organisations deliver game-changing social impact with their spare food. Since the launch of its Food Waste Heroes Programme in 2019, Olio has grown to rescue food from 8,000 locations monthly, and through its partnerships has now provided 100 million meals to local communities.
Cozzi's role focuses on spreading the word about (and finding new partners for) Olio's food redistribution and discounting solutions. She is passionate about preventing food from going to waste unnecessarily, and in her spare time can be found working on innovative new ways to use up leftovers.
Sheryl Miller
CEO
ReBoot Global
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With over 20 years of blue-chip experience, Sheryl Miller is a Transformation Director and the Founder of Reboot Global, which delivers C-suite coaching and retreats that transform. An esteemed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) consultant, she is the author of Smashing Stereotypes: How To Get Ahead When You’re The Only____In The Room.
Sheryl designs and implements tailor-made solutions to EDI that meet teams where they are; she raises awareness, provokes thought and inspires action through facilitated workshops, training sessions, and book clubs in an inclusive, fun and engaging way.
Sanjay Lobo
CEO
OnHand
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Founder and CEO, Sanjay Lobo, formerly served on the exec team at two unicorns, Lastminute.com (one of the UK's first dotcom superbrands) and Vistaprint (Nasdaq listed, with 17m customers). In 2019, he founded OnHand with the aim of solving some of society's biggest issues using technology. Since then he has been named Great British Entrepreneur for Good twice in 2020 and 2022 and was awarded an MBE in 2022.
Christine Elliott
Chairperson & Mentor
Health and Care Professions Council
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Christine Elliott is a passionate advocate for purpose-led leadership, known for her unwavering commitment to fairness, integrity, and driving positive change across sectors. With a career spanning senior roles in regulation, wellbeing, and social impact.
As Chair of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Christine has led one of the UK’s most complex health regulators through a remarkable transformation—now regulating 350,000 professionals.
She serves as a mentor to senior executives worldwide through The ExCo Group and most recently joined the Advisory Board of InChorus, supporting safer and more inclusive workplaces. Christine’s work is driven by a belief in inclusive growth, the power of good governance, and the importance of lifting others as you lead.