2022 Winner Liam Preece Brave teenager who started a YouTube channel to support fellow cancer sufferers. Liam, 15, has endured two years of gruelling treatment for bone cancer, but despite his own challenges, he is determined to try and help others feel better. The Stalybridge teenager was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer […]
Category: Manchester 2022 Winners
Special Recognition
2022 Winner Mike Palmer Firefighter who lost his daughter to suicide, and teamed up with other grieving dads to raise awareness and provide support. Mike, a firefighter at Manchester Airport, has devoted his life to raising money for others. When his daughter Beth took her own life in March 2020, aged just 17, that mission […]
Special Recognition
2022 Winner James Anderson Plumbing boss who has provided £1.2 million of support to vulnerable people to help them keep warm. James Anderson was a successful heating engineer when he came across an elderly customer who had been scammed. The gentleman had been left without heating or hot water by a con artist trying to […]
Child of Courage
2022 Winner Pixiebelle Sykes Astonished doctors with her determination after battling her way through more than three years of chemotherapy for a rare brain tumour. PixieBelle, nine, has endured four brain operations, lost her hair three times, and has also lost sight in one of her eyes after gruelling chemotherapy treatment. She was diagnosed with […]
Spirit of Manchester Award
2022 Winner Dr Erinma Bell Activist and campaigner has devoted her life to protecting young people from violent crime and giving them opportunities to build a bright future. Erinma founded a local community organisation called CARISMA in 2003, after she witnessed a shooting with her husband Raymond. “A friend of mine was shot and shot […]