Pride of Scotland Awards

  2026 Winner LAUREN ROY-SUTHERLAND, SUZANNE STEVENSON AND LEE ANNE GENTLES   The Wedding Wish Makers, real life fairy godmothers helping terminally ill patients have their dream wedding day Neighbours and friends Suzanne, Lauren and Lee Anne, from Renfrew, devote their time to organising fairytale weddings for brides and grooms whose dying wish is to […]

  2026 Winner JACK BLAIK   Jack and his late wife Nancy helped found children’s hospices which have been supporting seriously ill kids and their families for 30 years Jack and Nancy’s son Daniel was the driving force behind their efforts to create a children’s hospice in Scotland. Daniel was left profoundly disabled from a […]

  2026 Winner MUSA MUSA   Young asylum seeker from Sudan who has overcome huge obstacles to make a new life in Scotland, where he devotes his time as a volunteer to help others Musa was barely 17 when he made the difficult decision to leave his home and family in Sudan, to escape the […]

  2026 Winner INSPECTOR BECKY LIDSTER, DS ISLA CRAIGIE, DC ASHLEIGH BOSCH AND PC ALANA WHITBY   Hostage negotiators talked down a man who was holding a baby girl at knifepoint and threatening to kill her The terrifying and highly dangerous hostage situation unfolded in Edinburgh last June. The four specialist officers were called in […]

  2026 Winner LACHLAN, JAMIE AND EWAN MACLEAN   Brothers who broke the world record for rowing non-stop and unsupported across the Pacific, raising £1 million for clean water projects  The trio, from Edinburgh, set the record for rowing non-stop and unsupported – meaning they could not land on an island to resupply, or accept […]

  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 […]