The 2025 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 tangible difference in communities and the planet.”
Sanjay Lobo MBE
Founder, OnHand
The 2025 Categories
Volunteering Excellence
Award.
Recognising the companies with the highest engagement and impact through volunteering.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Best Community Impact Award.
Honours companies for executing a standout volunteering project that made a tangible difference.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Rising Volunteering Leader Award.
Acknowledges a company that has demonstrated significant growth in volunteer engagement over the past year.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Best First-Year Impact Award
This award celebrates companies that have made a significant and measurable impact during their first year of using OnHand. It recognises rapid adoption, innovative engagement strategies, and tangible contributions to volunteering, CSR, DEI, and sustainability goals.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Best DEI Engagement Initiative Award
Recognises a successful employee-driven DEI program that fosters a culture of belonging.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Sustainability Champion Award
For a company with outstanding environmental action and measurable CO2e reductions.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Most Innovative Sustainability Initiative
Highlights a creative project that demonstrates leadership in sustainable practices.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Impact Leader of the Year Award
The highest honor for a company that excels across and/or Volunteering, DEI, and Sustainability.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
Best Employee Engagement Strategy Award
Recognises a company that has implemented a standout strategy to inspire, engage, and mobilise employees around CSR, volunteering, DEI, or sustainability initiatives.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
OnHand - Volunteer of the Year
Recognising the top 50 volunteers who have made the most volunteering impact using OnHand.
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
OnHand - Sustainability Star of the Year
Recognising the top 50 users who have reduced the most CO2e through using OnHand
SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
The 2025 Judges
Dr Ella Moonan-Howard
Senior Innovator
Alzheimers Society
About Dr Ella Moonan-Howard
Ella’s passion for understanding health inequalities began with a Doctorate in Gerontology. Her impatience to see meaningful social change led her out of academia and into to health tech innovation in roles at Zinc.vc and then Alzheimers Society. Straddling the two worlds has left her with a shrewd appreciation of the power of well-placed research metrics in a rapid and agile environment. Ella now heads up the Launchpad Programme at Alzheimers Society Innovation working to ensure the next generation of dementia products go on to achieve scale and change the lives of those living with dementia.
Dr William Fleming
Research Fellow
Wellbeing Research Centre, Oxford University
About Dr. William Fleming
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
About Caroline Monkhouse Flower
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
About Alex Young
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
About Caroline Beard
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
About Dhiraj Mukherjee
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
About Jamie Broderick
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
About Cozzi Baring
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.
Vickie Wambura
CFO/COO
Migrateful
About Vickie Wambura
Vickie grew up in Kenya and is passionate about social impact. She founded two organisations, Nafisika Trust, Kenya, which works towards integrating prison inmates into society, and Spaces International, UK, promoting awareness of social barriers and empowering individuals to engage with social inclusion meaningfully.
Vickie joined Migrateful because it combines her passion for inclusion and food. Vickie stepped in as interim CEO while founder Jess was on a study sabbatical – they now jointly lead the organisation as Co-CEOs.
Sheryl Miller
CEO
ReBoot Global
About Sheryl Miller
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.
Dr Christiane Bode
Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship
Imperial College
About Dr Christiane Bode
Christiane Bode is an Associate Professor of Strategy. Her research focuses on the micro-processes underlying the corporate social engagement of firms. Two broad questions shape her research agenda. First she seeks to answer how employees acting as entrepreneurs drive the corporate social engagement of firms and second, she analyzes how firms can use the preferences of employees to create a strategic link between such engagement and firm performance. In recent work, she has also begun to focus more broadly on firm’s non-market strategies in particular in emerging markets by examining for example how different firms engage with the newly implemented CSR law in India.
In line with these research interest, she has also developed several teaching cases which have been granted awards by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the OIKOS foundation. She serves on the editorial review board of Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science.
Sanjay Lobo
CEO
OnHand
About Sanjay Lobo
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.
Barbara Adu Darko
Community Investment Lead
About Barbara Adu Darko
Barbara Adu-Darko is a passionate and purpose-driven Community Engagement Manager, where she leads efforts to build strong relationships with community partners, nonprofits, and charities. Her work focuses on empowering employee volunteers and supporting initiatives that create meaningful, lasting impact across local and global communities. In addition to her role, Barbara is a Trustee for a mental health organisation STAMP Revisited, where she contributes strategic insight and governance expertise to support the charity’s mission. Her dedication to community advancement extends beyond her professional work — she is also a self-published author, using storytelling to explore themes of identity, empowerment, and service.
Barbara is known for her ability to inspire others, build inclusive partnerships, and drive purposeful engagement. Whether she's mentoring others or championing local causes, her leadership is rooted in action for good. She believes in the power of collective impact and is committed to creating spaces where everyone can contribute to building a more equitable and compassionate community.
Kate Walsh
Programme Manager, Social Impact
Airbnb
About Kate Walsh
Kate Walsh is Programmes Manager of Social Impact at Airbnb, where she plays a key role in delivering the company’s mission to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. With a deep belief in the power of community, Kate works across Airbnb’s global partnerships and initiatives that support refugees, crisis response, and housing access for those in need.
She brings extensive experience in designing and managing programmes that deliver tangible social value—supporting hosts, nonprofits, and governments to unlock space for good. Whether coordinating emergency housing during global crises or working on long-term solutions for displaced communities, Kate ensures that impact is grounded, responsive, and human-led.
Debbie Lovewell-Tuck
Editor
Employee Benefits Magazine
About Debbie Lovewell-Tuck
Debbie Lovewell-Tuck is a business journalist with 20 years’ experience specialising in pay, reward and HR. She joined Employee Benefits as a reporter in 2003, before becoming editor in 2015. Debbie is also responsible for editorial content across Employee’ Benefits events, including Employee Benefits Live and the Employee Benefits Awards, as well as hosting Employee Benefits’ webinars.
Debbie is the recipient of several media awards: Employee Benefits and Pensions Journalist of the Year at the Towers Watson Excellence in HR Journalism Awards 2011 and 2012.
Eleanor Van Heyningen
Director of Strategy and Innovation
National Lottery Heritage Fund
About Eleanor Van Heyningen
Eleanor is Director of Strategy and Innovation at the National Lottery Heritage Fund with oversight of research, data, and insight, innovation and partnerships. She has 20 years’ experience in the cultural and media sectors with a focus on maximising public value. Before joining the Heritage Fund, she spent a decade at the BBC in posts including distribution, partnership, technology and public policy. That followed ten years in the Civil Service where Eleanor also held a variety of roles leading policy teams and advising Ministers. Her career started working in museums. She has degrees in history and museum studies and lives in South London.
Christine Elliott
Chairperson & Mentor
Health and Care Professions Council
About Christine Elliott
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.