2025 Award Winners
Outstanding Contributions Awards
Media Awards
Best written opinion piece dealing with Modern Slavery: Metro (Joy*), My employer took my passport – then forced me to move countries
Best news piece dealing with Modern Slavery: Big Issue (Isabella Mcrae), Criminal gangs are taking control of vulnerable people’s homes and using them as drug dens
Best investigative news article dealing with Modern Slavery: The Guardian (Seán Columb), ‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade
Best broadcast piece dealing with Modern Slavery: BBC One Disclosure (Chris Clements, Rachel Coburn, Shelley Jofre, Calum McKay), Slavery at Sea
WITH THANKS TO
Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP for kindly hosting the awards in Speakers House.
And to our panel of expert judges:
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Heather Crombie, Marsh Charitable Trust
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Louise Brown, Black Country Women’s Aid
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Jane Lasonder
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Emma Rickard-Watkins, Metropolitan Police
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Bex Keer
View all shortlisted nominations for Media and Outstanding Contributions which showcase the incredible contributions to the fight against modern slavery made over the last year.
*pseudonym used to protect anonymity