EVAW and partners win Campaign of the Year award

Yesterday (19th June 2025) the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Rape Crisis England & Wales, Centre for Women’s Justice and Rights of Women were awarded joint winners of the Sheila MacKechnie Foundation’s Campaign of the Year award for our successful work to change the law and #KeepCounsellingConfidential for rape survivors and stop their therapy notes from being routinely scrutinised by the police and in the courtroom.

We shared the Campaign of the Year award with Level Up, who were recognised for their No Births Behind Bars campaign which secured changes to sentencing guidelines to stop the imprisonment of pregnant women.

This is a win for survivors, and we are so grateful to all who shared their stories to create change. Huge thanks also to the professional counselling bodies that backed this campaign: the BACP, UKCP, British Psychological Society and National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.

What a powerful reminder of what our movement can achieve together!

Andrea Simon, Director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW), said:

“We’re honoured to win this award with our partners. The strength of our campaigning is found in our coalition and the power of all of us coming together with a vision for change. There is real power in working together to tackle an issue as urgent and sizeable as violence against women and we’re grateful to all who were part of this campaign – from experts in VAWG to the four major counselling and therapy professional bodies that backed our calls, to the journalists and parliamentarians who championed us, and the survivors who courageously shared their experiences so others would be protected.