Phil Hope, MP for the Third Sector with Graham Allcott, Chairman, READ International and Fred MacAulay

WINNER: READ International
READ International registered as a charity in May 2006. READ mobilises university students to collect disused, high-quality Key Stage 3, GCSE textbooks and other disused educational resources from UK secondary schools and redistribute them to Tanzania. Tanzania’s curriculum is based on the UK system so these books are perfect for their school system. READ also sends student volunteers into UK secondary schools to promote student volunteering, social enterprise, recycling, global citizenship and sustainability. By June 2007 READ has confirmed a national network of 350 student volunteers, they had shipped over 150,000 textbooks to Tanzania and given over 50 school presentations.

Highly Commended: Schoolfriend

Finalist: v, the youth volunterring charity
Finalist: F.R.O.D.O - Foundation for the Relief of Disabled Orphans
Finalist: Poet in the City / Penningtons Solicitors LLP