2022 Winner Jack Smyth Born premature, Jack has battled through severe illness, including being on life support, to set up his own business combining his love of cars with his talent for art. Jack, now 26, was only days old when he suffered the first of three bleeds in his brain and was […]
Category: 2022 Winners
Lifetime Achievement
2022 Winner Jean Cumming Started early intervention counselling charity Crisis with just £100, providing support to more than 50,000 families, veterans and children. After witnessing a lack of support, guidance and counselling during her time working in the NHS, Jean set up Crisis in March 1996. It is an early intervention service with […]
Special Recognition
2022 Winner Lucy Smith Youngest Scot diagnosed with motor neurone disease has raised more than £250,000 for others and defied the odds to become a mum. In 2013, Lucy was about to start a business course at college following a year working at an American summer camp when her future changed forever. Doctors […]
Child of Courage
2022 Winner Keiran Reid School boy has raised thousands for his local RNLI in memory of his fisherman father who was tragically taken by the sea. Keiran was just six when his dad Craig, 25, was washed overboard from the fishing trawler Apollo, near Orkney in 2016. The coastguard helicopters, the military and […]
Child of Courage
2022 Winner Zac Gunn Seriously ill transplant patient and ‘wee warrior’ who inspires everyone with his zest for life. In summer 2019, Zac’s parents were given the news that their son had pulmonary hypertension – a rare, life-limiting condition that affects the heart and lungs – and needed an urgent lung transplant. The […]
Child of Courage
2022 Winner Mila Sneddon Cancer sufferer who had to endure treatment in isolation – and whose bravery touched the nation. Mila became a symbol for childhood bravery in a time of national crisis when a photo of her kissing her dad through her kitchen window featured in the Duchess of Cambridge’s lockdown photo […]