2026 Winner
DR COR HUTTON MBE
Mum broke world records, and raised more than £5 million through her own charity after losing all four limbs to sepsis at the age of 43
After falling ill with pneumonia in 2013, Cor Hutton contracted life-threatening sepsis and was given a 5% chance of survival by doctors. To save her life, surgeons had to amputate both hands and her legs below the knee.
Cor, whose son was just a toddler at the time, underwent rehabilitation and learned to walk unaided on prosthetic legs after four months.
During that time, she noticed a lack of support for people who have been through amputation, and just weeks after her surgery, she set up Finding Your Feet.
The charity aims to reduce the social isolation that many feel after experiencing amputation, through peer support and sports activities. From helping just five people in 2013, today Finding Your Feet helps more than 2,000 amputees in Scotland, running 140 clubs a month.
The charity has raised more than £5 million since it started to fund clubs and activities such as swimming, pilates, skiing as well as peer support groups and vital counselling.
Cor, 56, from Renfrewshire, who had a kidney transplant in December 2024, has also set three world records including becoming the first female quadruple amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and Ben Nevis.
Since 2016, Cor has campaigned to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation in a bid to get more people to commit to organ, tissue and limb donation.
In January 2019, she underwent a 12-hour procedure to become the first Scottish person to receive a double hand transplant. She is now able to write and drive and last year, Cor met and embraced Deborah Gosling, the twin sister of her double hand donor, Julie Wild.
In an emotional meeting the pair hugged and Corinne said of her new hands: “I spend a lot of time looking at them and showing them to people, and of course, I remember Julie every single time.”