Charities 2001
All profits from the 2001 Yorkshire Awards Dinner were donated to Yorkshire-based charities, each nominated by one of the main sponsors of the dinner.
Martin House Childrens’s Hospice
Martin House Children’s Hospice near Wetherby provides care and support free of charge to children with a life limiting disorder and to their families.
Due to greatly increased demand for its services and more and more teenagers using Martin House, it is raising funds to build a new Teenage Unit. This will provide specialised, suitable accommodation for teenagers and will also increase the capacity for its work with younger children in the main building.
Nominated by Aon and Yorkshire Electricity
Yorkshire Post Hidden Disability Appeal
The Yorkshire Post Hidden Disability Appeal aims to help one of the largest and yet least recognised group of disabled children in our region - children with autism. This disability impairs their ability to communicate, understand the world and even make friends.
But with the right help, these children can lead full and rewarding lives. Our appeal aims to raise £1.4m to enable the National Autistic Society refurbish the Robert Ogden School, at Thurnscoe, near Barnsley. The school is a world centre of excellence for teaching autistic children, giving them not only an academic education, but also equipping them with life and communication skills. The school is already doing a tremendous job, but its buildings are dilapidated, and the money we raise will help it to create a comfortable and welcoming environment for the children.
Nominated by Yorkshire Post Newspapers
The Right to Read
Right to Read is a collaboration of agencies working together to improve literacy levels in Yorkshire and Humberside. The scheme has been set up because 24,000 children in the region are not achieving the expected standards in English. The aim of Right to Read is to recruit and train volunteers to provide reading support for children of primary school age.
Nominated by Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Cancer Research
Yorkshire Cancer Research raises money and funds research in Yorkshire only. The objective of the Charity is to promote research in Yorkshire into the cause and cure of cancer, which today accounts for one in four deaths in this country.
YCR, which prides itself on its ‘Yorkshireness’, is the most successful regional cancer research charity in the UK and raises around £4 million each year to fund research by world-leading scientists and clinicians at each of the five original universities of Yorkshire: Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York.
Work is also funded at the MRI Centre at Hull Royal Infirmary, The Royal Hallamshire and Weston Park Hospitals in Sheffield and the General Infirmary, St James’s and the Cookridge Hospitals in Leeds.
Nominated by the Yorkshire Society
The Childrens’s Heart Surgery Fund
The Children’s Heart Surgery Fund is a registered charity based at the Yorkshire Heart Centre in Leeds. The Yorkshire Heart Centre at Leeds General Infirmary is the largest centre for the treatment of heart defects in the UK and covers a population of approximately 5 million, with patients from all over Yorkshire, Humberside and the North Midlands.
Every year over 1200 children pass through the paediatric unit. Over 40% of these need long term care. The aim of the Fund is to continue to strive to provide resources, equipment and research for those children with the misfortune to be born with a heart defect.
Nominated by Yorkshire Bank
Leukaemia Research Fund
Leukaemia is the most common childhood cancer and along with the related blood disorders such as lymphoma, myeloma and myelodysplasia affects over 18,000 adults each year. This year is the 40th anniversary of the Leukaemia Research Fund, and it remains the only national charity dedicated to funding research in the the causes, improving treatments and searching for a cure for all of the blood cancers.
Nominated by Black Sheep Brewery