2000 Winner Alison Moore Alison Moore is undoubtedly Britain’s bravest teacher. The 31-year-old mother was beaten unconscious by racist thugs and left for dead in the grounds of the south London school where she works. She spent a week in hospital, suffering from internal bleeding, broken ribs and a cracked pelvis. But that was not […]
Month: June 2021
Special Award
2000 Winner Ian Botham Fourteen Test centuries and 383 wickets stand in the record books as testament to cricket legend Ian Botham’s sporting success. An entirely different set of figures measure his magnificent record as an inspirational individual. Ian has raised more than £4.5 million for research into leukaemia, the blood cancer disease, mainly through […]
Neighbour of the Year
2000 Winner Kathy Cassidy Kathy Cassidy proved to be not only a good neighbour but a champion for an entire neighbourhood. She was fed up of the rising tide of drugs and violence which had turned the area around her home in south Kilburn, London, into what police called “Smack Street.” Up to 200 addicts […]
Teenager of the Year
2000 Winner Gehane Gordelier Gehane Gordelier took on a job that seemed a Mission Impossible to most of her professional colleagues. The post of headteacher at Harry Gosling Primary School in Tower Hamlets, east London, had been advertised three times with no takers. Two schools which had failed Ofsted inspections were combined into one steadily […]
Woman of Courage
2000 Winner Alison Taylor For years, children in care in North Wales were abused and beaten by those charged with their welfare. Some social workers turned a blind eye. Others were part of a more sinister conspiracy of silence. Thankfully, one woman was not prepared to look the other way – even though her complaints […]
Linda McCartney Award for Animal Welfare
2000 Winner Irving Graham Seven-year-old Irving Graham was inspired by TV’s Pet Rescue programme to do something positive to help abandoned animals. The Geordie schoolboy hit on the idea of using the internet to re-home strays and unwanted pets. His dad, also called Irving, was so impressed with his son’s determination to help animals that […]