2020 Winner Mindu Hornick Holocaust survivor has spent the last two decades giving talks to young people urging them to love one another and be more tolerant. Born in Czechoslovakia, Mindu arrived at Auschwitz with her mother, brothers and sister Eva in a cattle carriage in 1942. “When we arrived at the camp there were […]
Category: Birmingham 2020 Winners
Stephen Sutton Inspiration Award
2020 Winner Katie Smith Mother with incurable brain tumour has raised thousands to help fund research into the deadly disease. Special needs teacher Katie, 33, was struck down with debilitating headaches just weeks after returning from her honeymoon in 2015. After numerous visits to the doctor and hospital appointments, doctors eventually diagnosed a brain tumour […]
Young Fundraiser
2020 Winner Nate Pakeman Schoolboy has raised more than £9,000 in memory of his best friend with 12 incredible fundraising challenges in 12 months. Nate and Tobi Weir had been inseparable since they were babies. So when Tobi fell seriously ill with a rare blood condition that affected his immune system, Nate was determined to […]
Child of Courage
2020 Winner Amelia Eldred Inspirational schoolgirl was determined to dance again after she lost her leg to bone cancer. Amelia was diagnosed with osteosarcoma – a rare type of bone cancer – on her seventh birthday. Chemotherapy did not work, so doctors had to amputate her leg to save her life. Surgeons at Birmingham Children’s […]
Emergency Services
2020 Winner Claire Bond Police officer risked her life to stop an out-of-control driver, fearing he was about to plough into runners in a 10k race. PC Bond, 47, was responding to reports a car had crashed into a garage in Coton Fields, near the route of a 10k race in September 2018. Drug dealer […]
Special Recognition
2020 Winner Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson Headteacher who championed equality and led her school to a legal victory after the primary was besieged by anti-LGBT protestors. Anderton Park School in Sparkhill became the focus of a long and bitter campaign to halt LGBT equality messages being taught in the classroom. Headteacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson was personally targeted by […]