Campaign
This award recognises disabled people for a ground-breaking and impactful campaign aimed at achieving disability equality. The campaign can have taken place on a local or national level and can have been an in-person, marketing or online campaign, incorporating best use of social media.
Winner: British Deaf Association: BSL Act Now
Young campaigner
This category recognises a young disabled person (up to 25 years) who is speaking out and taking action on an issue that affects them. This could be to improve accessibility or attitudes, for example within their community, school, college, university or beyond. Just like with the campaign category, this includes both online and in-person campaigning.
Winner: Rhys Porter
Accessible organisation
More and more organisations recognise the importance of making their workplaces, products and services accessible to disabled people. This category rewards them for the efforts they have made to create an inclusive workplace or business environment, or to develop products and services with accessibility and disabled people in mind.
Winner: Designability: Wizzybug
Media moment
It’s important that disabled people see themselves represented in the media. This award recognises a media moment that has had a powerful impact on championing disability equality. This could be a soap or drama storyline, entertainment TV show, film, podcast or any other mainstream format that has helped shift attitudes on disability.
Winner: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1)
Journalist
This award recognises an individual journalist who has gone above and beyond with a piece of investigative reporting, or who has shown strong commitment to the cause of disability equality through their work over the year.
Winner: Richard Butchins
Role model
This award is presented to a disabled public figure who has used their platform to campaign for disability equality and change attitudes. Role models could be celebrities or influencers with a substantial reach. We’re particularly interested in how they have engaged their social media following and fans to achieve change.
Winner: Rose Ayling-Ellis
Scope lifetime achievement award
As Scope turns 70, we honour a disabled person who has spent their life fighting for disability equality. To qualify for this category, the person needs to demonstrate how they have been dedicated over a significant and sustained period to the goal of bringing about change for disabled people or shifting attitudes around disability.
Winner: Baroness Jane Campbell DBE
Purple Pioneer
This category honours an individual or a group of people who have been nominated by others for their achievements around disability. This could be either a disabled person or a non-disabled ally who has raised awareness of disability issues or changed attitudes in their community. Rather than a specific campaign, this category recognises the work people have done that has positively affected those directly around them, which may otherwise go unrecognised.
Winner: Ru Jones
