The lockdown legends who have helped make lives better
| Published date | 21 November 2020 |
| Date | 21 November 2020 |
| Publication title | Huddersfield Daily Examiner |
We'd now like to introduce you to this year's incredible winning line-up, across categories ranging from Health to Heritage.
And don't forget: it's good causes like these that benefit from the £30million* you raise every week by playing The National Lottery.
Julie - Community and Charity winner 'Losing a child is still a taboo subject'
JULIE MorrIson was 37 weeks pregnant with her first child when she and husband Bryan were told their daughter Erin had no heartbeat. And despite going on to have three more children, she knows that the pain of losing her baby to stillbirth is something she'll carry with her for life.
Julie, 40, from Coatbridge, north Lanarkshire, says: "After losing Erin I tried to get on with my life, but there was little support and I was suicidal. Losing a child is still a taboo subject.
"Bryan and I felt that better aftercare would have
helped us - and this was what we decided to provide for others."
In 2018, the couple set up charity Baby Loss retreat. It offers scotland-based bereaved parents a free weekend break to help process their grief, with on-site access to support services.
During the pandemic, Julie also set up a phone and online counselling and trauma therapy service. "We've had lots of calls during lockdown," she explains. "Isolation makes it even harder to cope. now our retreats are open again, and we're here to help."
Dom - Environment winner 'Good food goes in the bin every day'
FIVE years ago, a school drop-offproved life changing for electrician and dadof-two Dom Warren - and many local families.
Dom, 35, worked hard to provide for his family, but realised other kids were going into school hungry. He and wife Alexandria, 33, set out to help, and ended up tackling the issue of food waste at the same time.
"I found the idea of parents not being able to afford breakfast for their children devastating," Dom says. "so, Dom's Food Mission was born."
Dom and Alexandria, from Hastings, called on friends and neighbours to drop surplus food to them
on saturday mornings, to...
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