Great Yarmouth Borough Council

Winners: Paul and Anne Dodson, Martham

For forming. in 2001, and continuing to run 901 Troop Marine Cadets. Mr Dodson, a paramedic, is captain of the troop, while Mrs Dodson is treasurer. The couple raised thousands of pounds to get the cadet force up and running. The troop has up to 45 members and its own band. 901 Troop Marine Cadets are often to be seen taking part in local civic functions, a feat which has brought invitations to visit Finland and Germany.

Winner: Screenprint Plus, Morton Peto Road, Harfreys Industrial Estate.

Screenprint Plus was found in the late 1980s. A successful local company it combines this with many contributions to the community and charity - without seeking self-promotion. The managing director Ian McCreadie involves himself and the business in projects from palliative care at the James Paget Hospital to Great Yarmouth’s Maritime Festival. Screenprint Plus allocates two per cent of its annual profit to charity and staff are involved in fund raising. Young people are also given work experience through the Prince’s Trust.

Winner: Patricia Page, Gorleston.

Pat Page has sense of civic duty, which has included service as a Borough Councillor for Magdalen ward. During this time she was the cabinet member responsible for the environment as the borough’s wheelie bin scheme came into place. She literally helped wheel out the bins and deliver them around the borough. She received 8 nominations - the largest single vote for her work introducing the scheme to get more people to recycle and her contribution to playgrounds and the skateboard park opened last year on Southtown Common.

Winner: Michael Beales, Ormesby St Margaret.

Michael (63) has been his wife Sandra’s (61) carer since she developed multiple sclerosis in 1997. He gave up his job to provide one-to-one caring for Sandra who is a wheelchair user. He not only provides her daily care but when she is in hospital still takes on the mantel of carer through activities such as feeding Sandra. Michael, like many carers, accepts his duty out of love for the person he cares for.

Winner: Lisa McRobb, Gorleston.

A mother of two boys, Lisa works to help youths and young adults. She runs groups for underachievers, non-attenders and young people with social and mental health issues. These include the Monday and Friday club at the Alpha Road centre. Lisa is described as a caring and wonderfully patient woman who genuinely cares for others.

Winner: Jade Hurrell, Gorleston.

Seventeen-year-old Jade shows just what young people can achieve for and within their own community. Working alongside the community development team she has helped to bring the skate park to Southtown Common. She also works one evening a week at Madhouse a youth club for five to 13-year-olds with behavioural problems. Her work experience was spent with Community Connections, leading to choosing subjects at college, which could help her become a community development worker.

Winner: Maureen Miller and Margaret Dusmarik, Young Person’s Theatre Group, Gorleston

Twenty five years of dedication has seen hundreds of young people introduced to the theatre through the Young Persons Theatre Company. Maureen and Margaret have introduced them to music, drama and dance, so successfully that some of have gone on to make the theatre their career. The pair are retiring due to ill health, but have been true ambassadors to the town through the shows they have put on through the years.

Winner: Ernest Childs, Great Yarmouth Potteries.

Artist Ernie Childs is described in his nominations as a talented man who uses his assets to help promote the Borough of Great Yarmouth. His knowledge of the town’s history is passed on with passion, and limited edition works based on this knowledge have helped many groups. As well as running Great Yarmouth Potteries he give his time ad talent freely to others. Projects close to his heart include the Maritime Festival, and the Great Yarmouth and Rambouillet Twining Association. One of his nominees claims that his devotion to the borough means that Ernie Childs is Great Yarmouth.

Winner: Thomas Garrod, Ormesby St Margaret. Sixth former college, formerly Caister High School.

Sixth-former Thomas was nominated by the crew of Caister lifeboat. He is a member of the crew despite being born with cerebral palsy for which he underwent treatment in Hungary. He recently attended his first call for action when he joined a 5.30 am shout. He volunteers for fund raising and is an asset when visitors come to the lifeboat station with his welcome and knowledge of the service. Thomas’s determination to overcome his disability and the things he has achieved in his life make the lifeboat crew proud to be associated with him.