The Beacon Prize 2003: Overall winner
Beacon Prize for Leadership 2003
Carol Wiggins - for her leadership role in mobilising communities
Carol Wiggins is the chief executive of Huyton Community Partnership (HCP), Merseyside. She founded this community-based organisation in the mid 1990s, when she was an unemployed mother of three, in order to give local people the knowledge and confidence to gain the skills and experience to return to work, and to take real pride in their local community.
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Beacon Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2003
Professor David Morley - for his contribution to child healthcare in the developing world
Professor David Morley began working in the field of child health in Nigeria in the 1950s. He is a life long supporter of new methods of health education and has developed simple and innovative diagnostic tools and teaching aids for child health, working particularly with vulnerable children under five years old, and which have inspired health workers world-wide.
He has set up two international health charities - Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC) and the Child-to-Child Trust - and continues his work today, at the age of 80.
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Beacon Prize for Leadership 2003
Lord Bhatia - for his leadership role in countering social deprivation and exclusion in the UK and internationally
Lord Bhatia exemplifies the guiding principle that if you are more fortunate than others you should contribute your time, leadership, creativity and skills to improve the quality of life for others. Since his arrival in the UK in 1972 Amir has built a successful business and has become an outstanding leader and champion of social and charitable causes in the UK
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Beacon Prize for Creative Giving 2003
Sir Tom Hunter - for his contribution to pioneering, innovative projects in the field of education
Sir Tom Hunter is one of the most influential entrepreneurs and philanthropists in Scotland today. He shares Carnegie's values of extending access to education as being the best way to help people to help themselves. He is the founder of the Hunter Foundation, a venture philanthropy organisation that invests in enterprise and educational initiatives aimed largely at children. Sir Tom also uses the example of Andrew Carnegie to inspire other successful Scots to use some of their money to benefit the community.
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Martin Fisher and Nick Moon for their contribution to economic development as social entrepreneurs in the developing world
Social entrepreneurs Fisher and Moon are the founders of ApproTEC, a Kenyan non-profit organisation dedicated to the proposition that low-tech high quality hardware can transform the lives of smallscale African farmers by making their work profitable. ApproTEC's premise is that technology should respond to the needs of the people who will be asked to buy it. This innovative mode of giving demonstrates how effective solutions that allow people to help themselves can be delivered.
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Beacon Prize for Startups 2003
Jason Maude - for his contribution to child healthcare and, in particular, misdiagnosis
Jason Maude set up the ISABEL Medical Charity in April 2000, following the near death of his daughter Isabel, due to a misdiagnosis of necrotising fasciitis as chickenpox. The charity now operates an online paediatric clinical decision-making support system for doctors and nurses, which is used by more than 11,000 healthcare workers world-wide.
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Dame Stephanie Shirley - for her contribution to countering autism and for her pioneering work in harnessing information technology for the public good
Dame Stephanie Shirley (Steve) is responsible for establishing more than 30 innovative charities in the fields of autism and IT. She is behind the Shirley Foundation, among the top 50 grant-giving foundations in the UK which, in the last six years, has awarded more than £ 50 million of grants to charitable causes.
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The Beacon Prize for Courage 2003
David Constantine - for his contribution to the alleviation of suffering and to enhanced mobility for disabled people in the developing world
In 1990 David Constantine co-founded Motivation, a charity that works to improve the quality of life of people with mobility impairment. One of the ways they do this is by designing and making affordable wheelchairs for people in developing countries. David himself is wheelchair dependent, following a diving accident in 1982. Motivation now produces wheelchairs from local materials in 17 countries and, to date, 25,000 wheelchair users world-wide have benefited from his endeavours.
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Beacon Prize for Young Philanthropist 2003
Sarah Francis - for her contribution to peace and reconciliation between people
Born of British Pakistani parents, fifteen year old Londoner Sarah Francis raised over £12,000 for Afghan refugees while still in full-time education by communicating the message of peace and reconciliation through her songs and through concerts in Pakistan and in other countries.
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Zac Goldsmith - for his contribution to environmental awareness and protection
Zac Goldsmith has contributed to environmental awareness and protection by raising grants totaling more than $5 million to support campaigners who are working on issues including agriculture, energy and international trade policy.
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The Judges' Special Beacon Prize
Niall Quinn - for his contribution to medical and children's charities
Niall Quinn, the former Sunderland, Manchester City, Arsenal and Republic of Ireland International footballer, donated his testimonial match proceeds to education projects in Africa and Asia and local hospitals in Dublin and Sunderland, forming the Niall Quinn Children's Charity. His actions have inspired others to give of their good fortune and he has set a precedent for other players to follow.
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John Profumo - for his work at Toynbee hall, for over forty years, in countering social deprivation and exclusion
John Profumo died on the 9th March 2006, aged 91.
John was Toynbee Hall’s longest serving volunteer. He started volunteering at Toynbee Hall, a charitable foundation that campaigns for the rights of the poor, in the 1960s and he continued to work there for the rest of his life.
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The Judges' Special Posthumous Beacon Prize
Sir J Paul Getty - for his extraordinary public and private contributions to charitable causes across many aspects of British life
Sir J Paul Getty died on 17th April 2003, aged 70.
He was Britain's greatest private philanthropist and a champion of unpopular causes, giving away over £200 million in the last twenty years of his life. He created a new model for effective private philanthropy and, as well as being a direct benefactor, he had his own charitable foundation - the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust. To this day, much of his giving will remain unknown.
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