Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Robert Burns Humanitarian Award
Awarded for	Humanitarian service
Country	Scotland
Presented by	EventScotland
First awarded	2002
Official website	http://www.robertburnsaward.com/

The Robert Burns Humanitarian Award is presented annually around the time of Burns' birthday to a group or individual who has saved, improved or enriched the lives of others or society as a whole, through personal self-sacrifice, selfless service, 'hands on' charitable/volunteer work, or other acts.

The winner receives a 1759 guinea, which signifies the year of the bard's birth and the coinage then in circulation, and a specially commissioned award handcrafted in Scotland.

The judging panel is chaired by David Anderson, Chief Executive of South Ayrshire Council, and includes journalist and broadcaster Kaye Adams; actor, writer and painter John Cairney; Nat Edwards, Director of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum; former RBHA winner and Head of Islamic Relief Scotland, Habib Malik; President of the Robert Burns World Federation, Robert Stewart; Guy Willoughby, former RBHA winner and Chief Executive of the HALO Trust; and Chief Executive of STV, Rob Woodward.

Award recipients

2002: John E. Sulston
2003: Yitzhak Frankenthal
2004: Clive Stafford Smith
2005: Pius Ncube
2006: Marla Ruzicka
2007: Adi Roche
2008: Jonathan Kaplan
2009: Guy Willoughby^[1]
2010: Habib Malik^[1]
2011: Linda Norgrove
2012: Karen Graham
2013: Khalil Dale OBE

From 2014, a new young persons' element will be introduced - the Robert Burns Humanitarian Medal, which will open to young people aged 16-25 years from anywhere in the world.

References

1 2 "Burns Award News". Visind Scotlad. Retrieved 13 January 2011.

External links

Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Robert Burns

Poems	"Comin' Thro' the Rye" (1782) "John Barleycorn" (1782) "Address to the Deil" (1785) "Epitaph for James Smith" (1785) Halloween (1785) Holy Willie's Prayer (1785) "To a Mouse" (1785) The Kilmarnock volume (1786) "To a Louse" (1786) "To a Mountain Daisy" (1786) "The Battle of Sherramuir" (1787) "The Birks of Aberfeldy" (1787) "Auld Lang Syne" (1788) Tam o' Shanter (1790) "Ae Fond Kiss" (1791) "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" (1791) "Sweet Afton" (1791) "The Slave's Lament" (1792) "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad" (1793) "Scots Wha Hae" (1793) "A Red, Red Rose" (1794) "Is There for Honest Poverty" (1795)

Articles	Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton Burns Clubs Irvine Atlanta Burns supper List of Robert Burns memorials Robert Burns' diamond point engravings Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate Robert Burns Humanitarian Award Robert Burns World Federation

Places	Burns Cottage Drukken Steps Ellisland Farm The Hermitage (Friars Carse) Writers' Museum

Family	Jean Armour (wife) Agnes Broun (mother) William Burnes (father) Gilbert Burns (brother)

People	John Anderson Alison Begbie Thomas Blacklock Nelly Blair Richard Brown May Cameron Mary Campbell Jenny Clow Lord Glencairn Frances Dunlop Jean Gardner Jean Glover Helen Hyslop Nelly Kilpatrick John MacKenzie Agnes Maclehose Ann Park Elizabeth Paton David Sillar Peggy Thompson

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