2024 Winner Molly Leonard After finding solace in crafting as she battled serious illness, Molly now shares her passion and skills to help others. Molly Leonard fell seriously ill with an eating disorder, spending long periods in hospital over the course of six years, often far from her home in Wales. Mindful crafting helped her […]
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ITV Fundraiser
2024 Winner Manny Singh Kang Big-hearted football fan has raised more than £260,000 for Dementia UK with events including regular Samosa Saturdays. Life-long Wolverhampton Wanderers fan Manny Singh Kang set up his first Samosa Saturday outside his beloved club’s home ground Molineux in 2018. He and his family cooked hundreds of home-made samosas then sold […]
Good Morning Britain Young Fundraiser of the Year
2024 Winner Jacob Newson Schoolboy has taken on a series of charity challenges to raise more than £150,000 in memory of his mum. Jacob Newson was just seven when his mum Andrea passed away, aged 49, in December 2020. The big-hearted youngster, now 10, wanted to repay some of the help and kindness he and […]
Emergency Services
2024 Winner HEWITT CLARK Britain’s most decorated living lifeboatman has saved hundreds of lives during some of the most dangerous rescues in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s 200-year history. Since the RNLI was founded exactly 200 years ago, its brave volunteers have saved more than 146,000 lives off the coast of Britain. Hewitt Clark has […]
Child of Courage
2024 Winner FLORRIE BARK Cancer survivor inspires millions as she shares her battle with a rare form of leukaemia and raises money to help other children. Florrie Bark began suffering repeated infections in 2022 and tests revealed she had acute myeloid leukaemia. Dad Andy recalls Florrie, then just six, comforting him and her mum Stacey […]
Child of Courage
2024 Winner Aiyla Mota Doctors were forced to amputate both of her legs and five fingers to save her life, but the sassy five-year-old refuses to slow down. When Aiyla Mota got a sore throat last March it appeared to be a typical childhood illness. But when she suffered stomach pains and her breathing worsened, […]