Pride of Britain Awards

2015 Winner Walking With The Wounded The organisation, founded in 2010, has been honoured at the Pride of Britain Awards for its inspirational work supporting wounded veterans trying to re-enter society after years of service Lying in a hospital bed, having lost both legs in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan, Sergeant Duncan Slater was […]

2015 Winner Paula Maguire ITV regional news programmes asked viewers to nominate inspirational fundraisers in their area. Paula set up JustGiving page IceBucket4MND and the text number ICED55 in the hope of raising £500 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. She completed one of the first ice bucket challenges in the UK – sharing the […]

2015 Winner Teddy Houlston Told their unborn son would die within days of birth, they decided to donate his organs – making Teddy the youngest ever organ donor. When Jess was just 12 weeks pregnant with twin boys, she was given some devastating news.  One of them was fatally ill with anencephaly – a rare […]

2015 Winner Joanne and Dan Thompson Joanne and Dan Thompson, who have won a special recognition award for achieving a change in the law (for all new nursery nurses and pre-school staff to undertake paediatric first aid training), after their daughter Millie died when she choked on mashed potato at nursery The awful day they […]

2015 Winner Alice Burke The moment that turned ordinary mum Alice Burke into a crime crusader came as she walked home after an evening at bingo. “I was mugged and they took my handbag,” she recalls. “I vowed from that moment on that I’d do everything I possibly could – that people wouldn’t have to […]

2015 Winner Joshua Williamson Joshua Williamson feared his father Tommy was dead when he found him slumped on his bedroom floor. His heart had stopped. The 11-year-old could easily have panicked but instead he showed the clear-headed thinking that one would expect from an experienced medic. “It was terrifying, I didn’t know if he was […]