2024 Award Winners
On 18th April 2024, the Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation hosted the annual Times Sternberg Active Life Awards, in the Stateroom at 11 Downing Street with the kind permission of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Jeremy Griffin, Executive Editor of the Times, spoke in honour of The Awards and Baroness Ros Altmann CBE presented the prizes to the winners, which were provided by the Sternberg Trustees. The event was covered by The Times here.
This year, the overall winners were Myrna Whiteson MBE and Dr Adrian Whiteson OBE who were instrumental in the establishment of the Teenage Cancer Trust in 1989. The Trust delivers services across 28 hospital wards for young people with cancer, as well as peer support and outreach services across the UK.
Congratulations to all the worthy winners!
Runner up winners were...
Professor Michael Keighley is founder member of the charity MASIC which supports and increases awareness of women who have suffered life time and devastating injuries as a result of child birth. He has been instrumental in improving care and outcomes for women after birth .
Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray who has made significant contributions to the understanding of general practice, particularly to ideas of continuity of care between doctor and patient, finding that reduced mortality was linked to better continuity.
Gail and William Fulton who set up The Mango Tree Charity 20 years ago and remain actively involved to this day. The Charity supports Aids orphaned children and their families by ensuring access to education, supporting health and well-being and investing in sustainable livelihoods.
Antony Lewis Crosby who has selflessly built up community music involvement in South West London, tirelessly fundraised for both cystic fibrosis and disadvantaged and disabled young people and actively volunteered for his local church for many years.
Professor Alan Wells who has dedicated his life to the Space Industry, not just in academic research and space exploration but in using Space as the catalyst to inspire young people into STEM subjects in both Further and Higher Education and, subsequently, into science careers.
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