2019 Winner Daniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr Drivers who risked their lives to pull three people from the wreckage of a burning plane Dan Nicholson was driving home with his son Giacomo, 15, in May last year when a light aircraft plummeted to the ground just 200 yards in front of them. The plane had suffered […]
Category: 2019 WInners
TSB Community Partner
2019 Winner Ben Clifford Inspirational surfer gives people with disabilities the chance to experience the joy of the sport at world-leading surf school When a disabled person asks Ben if they can go surfing, his answer is always: “Of course you can.” This mantra is the mission statement for Surfability UK, the country’s first fully-inclusive […]
Fundraiser of the Year
2019 Winner Jamie McDonald Runner has completed gruelling endurance challenges dressed as his alter-ego Adventureman to raise money for sick children Jamie was born with syringomyelia, a rare spinal condition which saw him spend the first nine years of his life in and out of hospital. He also had a debilitating immune deficiency, epilepsy and […]
Young Fundraiser of the Year
2019 Winner Aaron Hunter Terminally-ill youngster is on a mission to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds so other children won’t suffer too If Aaron could have just one superpower it would be the ability to time travel. The nine-year-old wants to fast forward to the future and bring back a cure for children battling […]
Emergency Services
2019 Winner Stevie Bull Heroic police officer risked her own life to tackle a man brandishing a gun at terrified nurses in a hospital ward “At the time, I just didn’t think,” says Stevie Bull. “Adrenaline kicks in and that overrides everything else.”Stevie was at University College Hospital in London in March 2018 with a […]
Prince’s Trust Young Achiever
2019 Winner Hezron Brown Overcame a life of crime and homelessness to help steer thousands of young people away from gangs and violence When Hezron Brown was five, he fell into a bath of boiling hot water. The right side of his body was severely burned and, despite months of skin grafts in Birmingham Children’s […]