Better Together 2011 Winners

And the Better Together 2011 winners are...

Video Competition

Volunteer Only Organisations: Dublin Cycling Campaign - view the winning video here. Prize: €3,000.

Organisation with staff with a turnover less than €500,000 per year: Irish Deaf Society - view the winning video here. Prize: €3,000.

Organisation with staff with a turnover greater than €500,000 per year: Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind - view the winning video here. Prize: €3,000.

Ireland's Charity Hero Award

The winner of the Charity Hero Award was Eamon Cleere (on behalf of Enable Ireland Kilkenny) - view Eamon's Charity Hero profile here. Prize: €1,000.

Giving Challenge

After receiving a whopping 1,051 unique donations, the €10,000 Giving Challenge prize went to Upstart. Find out more about Upstart here.

People's Choice Award

This award (in the form of a trophy) was presented to the organisation in each category of the video competition, that secured the largest number of votes from the public.

Volunteer Only Organisations: Youth for Unity Ireland (YU) - view the winning video here.

Organisation with staff with a turnover less than €500,000 per year: Cork Dog Action Welfare Group - view the winning video here.

Organisation with staff with a turnover greater than €500,000 per year: Dublin SPCA - view the winning video here.

Would you like to see the shortlists from which the judges had to make their choices? Then just click on any of the categories below:

1. Organisation with staff with a turnover greater than €500,000 per year

   1.	Dublin SPCA Standing Up for Animals
   2.	ISPCA Better Together - Horses
   3.	Irish Autism Action - Better Together
   4.	ISPCC celebrating the 2011 European Year of the Volunteer
   5.	Focus Ireland - Without Your Home Your Life Develops Differently
   6.	Irish Guide Dogs Assistance Dog Programme
   7.	Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association
   8.	City Fusion
   9.	Voices from YAP Ireland
   10.	Messages from the Heart

2. Organisation with staff with a turnover less than €500,000 per year

   1.	Cork DAWG Better Together
   2.	Myasthenia Gravis - The Ragdoll Illness
   3.	An Irish solution to an Irish problem
   4.	Irish Wildlife Trust
   5.	Music Changed My Life
   6.	Make hunting a thing of the past
   7.	NAYD Better Together
   8.	Nasc (Irish Immigrant Support Centre) - Bringing Families Together
   9.	Irish Deaf Society is "Better together"
   10.	National Day of Volunteering 2011

3. Volunteer only organisation

   1.	RUN4UNITY
   2.	Galley Flash Rowing Club, Ardfield, West Cork
   3.	Jigsaw Dublin 7/11 - Better Together 2011
   4.	Plurabelle Paddlers
   5.	Ring Rowing Club - Better Together!
   6.	Mark Pollock
   7.	Dublin Cycling Campaign 'Join Us' Video!
   8.	The Lost Souls of Ireland
   9.	Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something- Amir Public School
   10.	The Edge Youth Club Monaghan, Better Together!

4. Charity Hero Award

   1.	John Quinn
   2.	Vicky Barham
   3.	Ronnie Whelan
   4.	Eamon Cleere
   5.	Ian O'Flynn
   6.	John Carmody
   7.	Lorraine Dempsey
   8.	Margaret Twohig
   9.	Siobhán Carroll
   10.	Nichola Power

A Note About the Voting System

All four shortlists displayed above (i.e. the 3 different video competition categories, plus the Charity Hero Award) are based on an accumulated stars system. When voting for a particular piece of content, voters were asked to choose between 1 and 5 stars (out of a total of 5). A 5-star rating delivers 5 votes to the content in question and a 1-star rating delivers 1 star, and so on. The number of votes for each piece of content have now been added up to create the following shortlists.

Thank you for all your creativity, commitment and enthusiasm - see you in 2012!