Pride of Britain Awards

2021 Winner Rosemary Cox Successfully campaigned to set up the first Organ Donor Register in the UK, helping to save thousands of lives. After their 24-year-old son Peter died in 1989 following a brain tumour, Rosemary and John Cox saw the need for a register for people who wish to donate their organs. Peter had […]

2021 Winner Harmonie-Rose Allen, 7 Quadruple amputee given a 10% chance of survival as a toddler has inspired the nation with her courage and unbreakable spirit. Harmonie-Rose was 10 months old, and had recently taken her first steps, when she started coughing and struggling for breath. Doctors twice allowed her home from A&E, but the […]

2021 Winner Amy and Ella Meek Campaigning sisters set up a kids charity to help fight the global scourge of plastic pollution. Amy, 18, and Ella, 16, are the founders of youth social action group Kids Against Plastic, which is now a registered charity. It calls for action against plastic pollution and encourages individuals, schools […]

2021 Winner Hughie Higginson and Freddie Xavi Best pals have raised more than £200,000 after Hughie was diagnosed with Leukaemia and Freddie vowed to help him thank his doctors and nurses. Hughie, 11 was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia last September and began three and a half years of treatment at the Royal Manchester Children’s […]

2021 Winner Stephen Wharton On-call firefighter risked his life to dive to the rescue of a teenager who had been submerged in icy waters for more than 20 minutes. Kacper Krauze, 13, had been attempting to swim across the River Eden in Appleby-in-Westmorland in February 2019. The weather was unseasonably warm, but the icy water […]

2021 Winner Max Woosey, 11 “Tent Boy” Max has spent more than 500 nights sleeping under canvas, raising £640,000 for his local hospice. Neighbour and family friend Rick Abbott was terminally ill with cancer when he gave Max a tent, and told him to “go have an adventure”. When Rick passed away, Max decided to […]