The BBC Radio Nottingham and Nottingham Evening Post Awards started in 2003. They aim to recognise Nottinghamshire's unsung heroes, people who go out of their way to help others. This year it was so difficult to judge, as we had more nominations than ever before. The winners
 | | Emma Bullin |
Emma Bullin While pregnant, the 27-year-old developed a brain tumour and lost her sight. After seven operations and having emerged from an assisted coma, the English literature student still found the energy to return to her degree course and began campaigning for blind and partially-sighted people.
 | | Steve Dent |
Steve Dent Not even a triple heart by-pass could stop the 41-year-old helping thousands of people. Steve has spent more than 25 years trying to improve others' lives after joining Bulwell United Reformed Church when he was still at school. He is a youth development officer for Notts Royal Society for the Blind.
 | | Angela Jevons |
Angela Jevons When Milka Zupancic, 63, lost her husband of 34 years to cancer, she turned to Angela, a neighbour in Mansfield, for a shoulder to cry on. When she suffered from hypertension of the lungs, Angela was there to help.
 | | Mohammed Raza Khan |
Mohammed Raza Khan Two days after the earthquake hit Kashmir, Mohammed left his Sherwood home after losing contact with more than 200 friends and relatives. He has helped collect £35,000 through fund-raising and donated £15,000 of his own.
 | | Terry Marsh |
Terry Marsh Terry has been caring for injured birds since he was five, and has been running his own charity, the Terry Marsh Wildlife Rescue in Mansfield, for 20 years. He looks after injured badgers, foxes and owls and other animals and releases them back into their habitats once they are well. In 2005, he saved 2,800 animals.
 | | John Morton |
John Morton John's love of archery took him to overseas competitions in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then his love of helping others has taken five Notts athletes to the Paralympics. The 69-year-old noticed how little there was for disabled archers and set up the Panthers Archery Club in Mapperley, which he has run for 40 years.
 | | Margaret Sherratt |
Margaret Sherratt On the day Margaret's husband Harry died in 1988, she set out on a mission to help others. "I vowed I would dedicate my life to helping others," she said. Margaret, from Carlton, has run the Carlton Hill Age Concern shop and set up the Caring Sitting Service where volunteers sit with terminally ill people for a few hours a week.
 | | Grace Marsh |
Grace Marsh A student and budding solicitor, Grace, 21, started helping parents with disabled children last October and has not looked back. She accompanies parents and carers to meetings and events and helps families get the maximum support available to them.
 | | Ann and Mark Flynn |
Ann and Mark Flynn Despite having diabetic neuropathy, which causes numbness and pain and restricts his activity, Mark and wife Ann, who is his full-time carer, have run Netherfield Boys' and Girls' Football Club for nearly ten years.
 | | Keith Vinerd |
32nd Nottingham Company, The Boys' Brigade Keith Vinerd, who trains Boys' Brigade members, joined the 32nd company six months ago and was so impressed he nominated the whole group for an award. The audio The Reach Out Awards were given out at a ceremony in County Hall on Thursday, 11th May 2006.
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