2021 Winner Lily Douglas Teen battling a rare form of cancer has inspired people all over Scotland and beyond with her incredible courage, positivity and determination to help others. Lily, 13, from Perth, was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer, Ewing’s sarcoma, when she was nine. The condition affects bones and the surrounding tissue. […]
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Child of Courage
2021 Winner Aaron Hunter Schoolboy who has faced battles to survive since birth now has a new lease of life thanks to the world’s first ‘heart in a box’ transplant on a child. Aaron, 10, was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, meaning he had only half a heart. He underwent his first life-saving […]
Special Recognition
2021 Winner Karen Morrison Foster mum who founded a charity to help siblings separated by the care system to be reunited and create new, happy memories together. As a foster carer, Karen Morrison saw first-hand that the care system had a problem. Brothers and sisters were often being split up, going long periods without contact, […]
Special Recognition
2021 Winner Dr Kenneth Baillie Leading light in the fight against Covid-19, heading up vital studies and contributing to the trial which found the first effective treatment. Critical care specialist Dr Kenneth Baillie leads a lab at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute. For the last 20 years he has focussed his research on better […]
Outstanding Bravery
2021 Winner Gerard Morrison Pensioner who sprung into action during a violent knife attack, saving a woman’s life and fighting off her attacker. Gerard, 72, was waiting in a housing association office in Greenock when one of the men waiting alongside him suddenly got up and approached the counter where staff member Lynn Robertson was […]
TSB Community Hero
2021 Winner Jamie McCallum Dad behind a viral video featuring children with Down syndrome which led to a charity and inspirational movement challenging negative perceptions. When Jamie McCallum’s daughter Rosie was born eight years ago with Down syndrome, it was a fork in the road that changed his life. The father-of-three discovered that […]