2020 Winner Isabella Hibbert Youngster from Oldham dialled 999 after her mum collapsed and fell unconscious on the kitchen floor. Isabella, who was just four at the time, managed to find and unlock her mum Chelsea’s mobile phone before calling for an ambulance. The youngster was then able to give the call handler her address […]
Category: Manchester 2020 Winners
Special Recognition
2020 Winner Maggie Oliver Whistleblower who exposed catastrophic failures to protect child victims of grooming gangs. In 2004, Maggie was a detective constable with Greater Manchester Police working on Operation Augusta, a widespread investigation into a suspected grooming network of older Pakistani-heritage men in the Rusholme area. Maggie had gained the trust of girls involved, […]
Lifetime Achievement
2020 Winner Luchia Fitzgerald Trailblazing campaigner for LGBT and women’s rights in Manchester is still fighting on behalf of others after 60 years. Luchia arrived in the city from her native Ireland as a teenager in 1961. She had fled a physically and emotionally abusive upbringing with her grandmother. She recalls: “My grandmother found out […]