BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award
By year

BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award

Section Title: By year
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Year	Nationality	Winner	Location	BBC Region	Sport	Rationale	Note

2003	WAL	Nobby Woodcock	Newport, South Wales	BBC Wales	Football	for "his unstinting work with grassroots football in Wales".

2004	ENG	Abdullah Ben-Kmayal	Peckham, London	BBC London	Football	for his work with Bethwin Football Club, a club he founded and funded personally.

2005	ENG	Trevor Collins	Isle of Wight	BBC South	Swimming	for more than 25 years work in administration and coaching at the West Wight Swimming Club.

2006	ENG	Val Hanover	Oswestry, Shropshire	BBC West Midlands	Special Olympics	for spending nearly 30 years organising Special Olympics for thousands of people with learning difficulties in North Shropshire.

2007	ENG	Margaret Simons	Bicester, Oxfordshire	BBC South	Football	for over 40 years of work with Bardwell FC, a community football team that she founded in 1964.

2008	ENG	Ben Geyser	Dorchester, Dorset	BBC South	Boxing	for setting up three boxing clubs, and campaigning for a permanent home for the Dorchester Amateur Boxing Club.

2009	ENG	Doreen Adcock	Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire	BBC East	Swimming	for teaching "over 13,000 people to swim in the town over the last 35 years".

2010	ENG	Lance Haggith	Bedfordshire	BBC East	Basketball	for providing children of differing abilities coaching in basketball.

2011	SCO	Janice Eaglesham & Ian Mirfin	Scotland	BBC Scotland	Athletics	for providing coaching to disabled athletes.

2012	ENG	Sue & Jim Houghton	Leicester	BBC East Midlands	Various	for transforming a derelict Leicestershire sports ground into a popular community facility for tennis, squash, association football, bowls and dance.

2013	ENG	Joe & Maggie Forber	Manchester	BBC North West	Basketball	recognised regionally for their hard work at the Amaechi Basketball Centre in Whalley Range.

2014	ENG	Jill Stidever	Hinckley, Leicestershire	BBC East Midlands	Swimming	for nearly 60 years' work helping children with special needs learn to swim.

2015	NIR	Damien Lindsay	Belfast	BBC Northern Ireland	Football

2016	ENG	Marcellus Baz	Nottingham	BBC East Midlands	Boxing	for providing free boxing classes to hundreds of young people at his boxing school.

2017	ENG	Denise Larrad	Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicester	BBC East Midlands	Various	for helping the elderly get involved in sport and leading running groups encouraging people of all ages to get active.

2018	SCO	Kirsty Ewen	Inverness	BBC Scotland	Swimming	overcame mental health issues to inspire others to do the same and find a better place through swimming.

Sentence(s)

The inaugural winner in 2003 was Nobby Woodcock for "his unstinting work with grassroots football in Wales".

final_sentence: The inaugural winner in 2003 was Nobby Woodcock for "his unstinting work with grassroots football in Wales".