2024 Winners of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) 2024 Awards

We are so proud to be 2024 Award Winners at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) Awards. Taking place on 19th November, 2024, Susie Besant, CEO and Founder of One-Eighty was presented with the award.

This accolade reflects the charity’s commitment to supporting young people who fall through the gaps between health and education support. Young people with profound and complex needs.

As Susie continues;

In Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire alone, more than 20,000 young people are either not going to school or persistently absent due to acute or complex mental health issues. They are termed in the media as ‘Ghost Children’ or ‘Children missing from education’.

Working holistically alongside health and education professionals, One-Eighty delivers tailored, intensive one-to-one interventions and preventative projects to support young people with their mental health and behaviour so they can re-engage with the education they deserve.

We are the only organisation across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire that bridges the gap between mental health and education, supporting 4-18 year olds, with an effective and sustainable model. Despite increasing our service delivery by over 70% last year, the number of referrals for our support continues to rise.

The CSJ Awards are an annual event to showcase, celebrate and reward, the very best grassroots charities and social enterprises from local communities throughout the UK. The awards exist to ensure that those working to tackle poverty around the country are heard by decision makers in Westminster. The impact of winning a CSJ award is long-lasting and helps these organisations to grow and widen the reach of their inspirational work. Previous winners have helped to tackle modern slavery, rehabilitate ex-offenders, improve educational outomes in deprived areas, and bring isolated older people back into the community.

The CSJ’s vision is for those living in the poorest and most disadvantaged communities across Britain to be given every opportunity to flourish and reach their full potential. They seek to influence the policies the Government creates and the laws it makes, such that it does all it can to address the root causes of poverty including; family breakdown; education failure; worklessness; addiction; problem debt and housing; criminal justice; modern slavery. Through their partnership with the CSJ Foundation, they work with almost 400 grass root charities from Britain’s poorest communities to bring to life their critical experience and expertise of addressing poverty, and supporting the most vulnerable people and communities.