2024 Tenacious Campaigner Award Winners
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Anna Severwright
Anna Severwright is a campaigner, speaker, and co-convener of Social Care Futures. Since 2018, Social Care Futures has been building a movement that puts people with lived experience at the centre of decisions about social care.
Anna’s Tenacious Award will help Social Care Futures work continuing to rethink, reimagine, and redesign how care is delivered.
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Georgia Elliot Smith
Georgia Elliott-Smith is an engineer, activist, and founder of Fighting Dirty, a campaign group using the law to close loopholes that allow pollution to proliferate.
Georgia’s Tenacious Award is supporting Fighting Dirty’s work uniting grassroots activists with lawyers, policymakers and the media to raise public awareness, change policy, and secure justice for people and communities affected by pollution. -
Harry Scoffin
Harry Scoffin is a housing campaigner and journalist. In 2023, he founded Free Leaseholders, a grassroots campaign to end the systemic exploitation of millions by unaccountable landlords through abolishing residential leasehold tenure in England and Wales.
Harry’s Tenacious Award will help Free Leaseholders secure a mass shift to democratic commonhold, giving homeowners rightful control of their homes, money and lives. -
Janey Starling
Janey Starling is a campaigner, media strategist, writer and co-director of Level Up, a feminist campaigns community working for gender justice and bodily autonomy.
Janey’s Tenacious Award will support Level Up’s groundbreaking campaign to end the imprisonment of pregnant women, which was launched following the deaths of two babies in women's prisons. -
Not1More
Injunctions have become the go-to method for both corporations and the government to protect their interests and shut down protest, imposing large financial penalties and prison sentences upon those who stand up against them.
The Tenacious Award will support a grassroots campaign with the ultimate aim to end the use of Protest Injunctions being used to intimidate and silence campaigners. -
Kath Sansom
Kath Sansom is a journalist, campaigner, and founder of Sling the Mesh, a campaign group raising awareness of the harms of surgical mesh.
Kath’s Tenacious Award will support her work advocating for patients harmed by surgical mesh and lobbying for tougher regulations, oversight, transparency and data capture to improve patient safety. -
Matt Staniek
Matt Staniek is the founder of Save Windermere, a campaign group dedicated to ending sewage pollution into England’s largest lake.
Matt's Tenacious Award will support the campaign to save Windermere from ecological degradation, ensuring the lake is protected from sewage pollution and allowing wildlife to thrive in a healthy ecosystem. -
Munya Radzi
Munya Radzi is the founder of Regularise, a grassroots collective of migrants and British citizens dedicated to improving the quality of life of all undocumented migrants.
Munya’s Tenacious Award will bolster Regularise’s efforts to secure basic rights and a safer, equitable path to settlement and citizenship for the UK’s undocumented population. -
Smartphone Free Childhood
Smartphone Free Childhood, founded by Daisy Greenwell, Clare Fernyhough, and Joe Ryrie, is a grassroots movement that's united 120,000 parents in under six months to resist Big Tech's colonisation of childhood
This Tenacious Award supports their work highlighting the harms of smartphones, empowering parents & schools, and campaigning for governments & tech companies to protect childhood.
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Will Prochaska
Will Prochaska is an independent campaigner working across gambling reform policy. He aims to reduce the harm caused by gambling through stricter regulations on the most harmful gambling products and practices of the industry.
Will’s Tenacious Award will support the Coalition to End Gambling Ads - campaigning for an end to all gambling advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
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"Tenacity means continuing to fight for change, even when it looks too hard or others doubt it's possible, it's looking for another way and keeping going."
Anna Severwright, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"Being tenacious means never taking no for an answer and seeing every challenge as a new opportunity."
Georgia Elliot Smith, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"Tenacity is about having boundless optimism, following your instincts, and not letting anyone tell you to ‘stay in your lane."
Harry Scoffin, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"Being tenacious means valuing dedication over motivation. Challenging the violent machinery of the state can be exhausting, but with precision, persistence and creativity, change is possible."
Janey Starling, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"When people continue to fight for causes which are important to them and stand up to corporations, and governments, despite threats of imprisonment and bankruptcy against them."
Not1More, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"Tenacity means never giving up in the face of adversity and doing everything possible to make a positive difference for a cause that I'm passionate about."
Kath Sansom, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"Tenacity represents not giving up, not wavering and being relentless in the pursuit of your objectives. I suspect if you ask United Utilities or the Environment Agency, they would probably use vexatious or 'manifestly unreasonable' instead of tenacious to describe me."
Matt Staniek, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"To me, being tenacious is about persevering even when the path is daunting, knowing that unwavering commitment and determination in our struggle will eventually lead to success."
Munya Radzi, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"Being tenacious means steadfastly calling for what’s right through the attacks, misinformation, and diversion from vested interests that don’t want you to succeed."
Will Prochaska, Tenacious Award Winner 2024
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"Being tenacious means refusing to accept that the way things are are the way things have to be"
Smart Phone Free Childhood, 2024 Tenacious Award Winners