The countdown to the Charity Awards has begun. In just 11 weeks ten charities will be crowned leaders of civil society. 

Over the coming weeks our digital team Alex Goddard and
Vibeka Mair will be catching up with Charity Awards veterans to give you a taste of what our imminent winners have in store.

This week they travel to Reading to chat with Charity Awards winners Mothertongue who won the social care, welfare and religion category in 2007.