Pride of Britain comes to Manchester with launch of Pride of Manchester Awards 2019

The team behind Pride of Britain is launching the first ever Pride of Manchester Awards to recognise the region’s amazing unsung heroes and celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Do you know someone who is quietly transforming their community to improve the lives of others, someone who has put themselves in danger to save someone else, an inspirational campaigner or an amazing fundraiser? They could be six or 106 – heroism has no age barrier. And they could have changed one life or changed the world.

As well as being honoured with a Pride of Manchester Award, all winners will go forward to the judging process for the Daily Mirror’s Pride of Britain Awards, in partnership with TSB. Since the first Pride of Britain in 1999, royalty, prime ministers, and hundreds of leading figures from showbusiness, sport, politics and the arts have all taken part.

Over the years, amazing winners from Manchester have touched the heart of the nation.

One of the most moving Pride of Britain moments came in 2017 when Prince William and Ed Sheeran joined young survivors of the Manchester Arena bomb as they were reunited on stage with the medics who had saved their lives and those of so many others.

 

 

Other incredible local winners have included Karen Johnson, from Rochdale, who raised millions of pounds for research into the genetic condition that killed her two sons before they reached their teens and little Ella Chadwick, of Whitworth, who stole the show with her cheeky chat as she received her Child of Courage Award from the X Factor judges.

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The inaugural Pride of Manchester event will be hosted by celebrity Kym Marsh.

She said: “It will be an amazing night when the whole city comes together to celebrate our amazing unsung heroes. The audience will be packed with famous actors, singers, TV presenters and sporting heroes, but the real stars of the show will be the winners, those heroes, young and old, who are selflessly transforming the lives of others.

“It will be such a privilege to meet them and to celebrate their astonishing achievements. They are all so different, but they all share one quality - they are hugely modest about what they have done. And that is why we need you to tell us about them!”

Nominations are now open and will close on Friday 8 March 2019: the winners will be announced at a star-studded event at The Principle Manchester on Oxford Street on Wednesday 8 May.

Find out more about the Pride of Manchester Awards 2019 at:

• www.prideofbritain.com/manchester