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2010 Social Entrepreneur Award Winner Terrie Johnson

2016-12-20T08:53:51+00:00June 1st, 2010|Inspiring Award winner 2010|

Terrie Johnson
2010 Social Entrepreneur Award Winner 

Terrie is the founder of ‘fruit to suit’. Finding herself struggling to find a home/life balance that fitted around her young family, Terrie combined her two passions, working with young children and healthy living, to create a social enterprise that establishes healthy tuck shops to local schools. From […]

2010 Business Award Winner Jane Davies

2016-12-20T09:06:29+00:00May 29th, 2010|Inspiring Award winner 2010|

Jane Davies
2010 Business Award Winner 

Jane was appointed CEO of Manchester Science Park (MSP) in 2000 and remains the only female CEO of a science park ten years later. During this time Jane has gained national and international recognition for the work MSP does and has helped Manchester and the North West become a recognised […]

2010 Community Award Winner Irene Brown

2016-12-20T09:09:05+00:00May 28th, 2010|Inspiring Award winner 2010|

Irene Brown
2010 Community Award Winner

For the past 10 years Irene Brown, along with her husband, has helped the homeless, dispossessed and those living on the margins of society in Manchester. Taking their van out every Wednesday and Saturday, Irene reaches out with food, love and compassion. She befriends those who […]

2010 Public Sector Award Winner Dominique Whittington

2016-12-20T08:50:14+00:00May 27th, 2010|Inspiring Award winner 2010|

Dominique Whittington
2016 Public Sector Award Winner

Dominique is a senior manager within the Special Projects Section for Manchester City Council, which manages and delivers the City’s large scale capital regeneration projects following the 1997 bombing and the infrastructure for the Commonwealth Games. Organisations that Dominique has directly supported and developed include The Zion Arts Centre; […]

2009 Category Winners

2016-12-20T08:44:47+00:00May 29th, 2009|Inspiring Award winner 2009|

Ally Melling
2009 Public Sector Award Winner

Ally has been involved in youth work for 25 years, at the grass roots as well as shaping policy at government levels. From a disadvantage background and with learning difficulties herself, she set out on a life-long mission to empower young people who are disadvantaged by fractured education […]

2007 Category Winners

2016-12-20T00:25:41+00:00May 30th, 2007|Inspiring Award winner 2007|

Caroline Shaw
2007 Public Sector Award Winner

Through strong and enterprising leadership, Caroline Shaw has implemented ambitious plans in her 20 months as chief executive of Christie cancer hospital, responsible for a £130m budget, 2000 staff and around 40,000 patients a year from around the North West. She has overseen a successful application to become […]

2006 Category Winners

2016-12-20T00:21:18+00:00May 28th, 2006|Inspiring Award winner 2006|

Heather Green
2006 Community Award Winner

Heather Green was honoured for improving resources for children and young adults in a disadvantaged area of Manchester. Heather devotes her spare time to rehabilitating and steering youngsters away from drugs, drink and gang warefare. She mortgaged her home to purchase the Rainbow Christian Centre in Hulme where she has […]

2005 Category Winners

2016-12-20T00:17:02+00:00June 3rd, 2005|Inspiring Award winner 2005|

Hilary Craft
2005 Community Award Winner

Hilary Craft was awarded the Community accolade for her invaluable contribution to fundraising for leukemia research, a woman who selflessly fundraised to buy vital equipment for cancer research though it will not help her.

Sue Woodward
2005 Business Award Winner

Sue Woodward, MD of ITV Granada, collected the Business award as a tribute […]

2004 Category Winners

2016-12-20T00:18:04+00:00June 1st, 2004|Inspiring Award winner 2004|

Patsy McKie
2004 Community Award Winner

The winner is Patsy McKie of Hulme, Manchester.  In 1999 Patsy’s 20 year old son was shot through gang violence.  Rather than dwell on revenge, Patsy set up Mothers Against Violence.  It began as an informal support group to provide comfort to other bereaved mothers developing under Patsy’s leadership into […]
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