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Congratulations to our 2026 Hero Award Winners We had a wonderful night celebrating our Heroes of 2026. Thank you to all of the charity's volunteers and our sponsors for this year's awards; it would not have been possible without you. Our sponsors for 2026: SEND Tutoring, TALEM, Eleventhhour Group, NUPFC, Resilient Business Systems, OptiKinectics, UK Pet Food, Training2Care, Harley Street Skin Clinic and Irwin Mitchell. Special thanks to Nanaa Akua, Bradley Riches, PPAS and Mr. Kieron Lee. Congratulations to our 2026 Hero Award Winners : We had a wonderful night celebrating our Heroes of 2026. Thank you to all of the charity's volunteers and our sponsors for this year's awards; it would not have been possible without you. Our sponsors for 2026: SEND Tutoring, TALEM, Eleventhhour Group, NUPFC, Resilient Business Systems, OptiKinectics, UK Pet Food, Training2Care, Harley Street Skin Clinic and Irwin Mitchell. Special thanks to Nanaa Akua, Bradley Riches, PPAS and Mr. Kieron Lee. • Congratulations to our 2026 Hero Award Winners : We had a wonderful night celebrating our Heroes of 2026. Thank you to all of the charity's volunteers and our sponsors for this year's awards; it would not have been possible without you. Our sponsors for 2026: SEND Tutoring, TALEM, Eleventhhour Group, NUPFC, Resilient Business Systems, OptiKinectics, UK Pet Food, Training2Care, Harley Street Skin Clinic and Irwin Mitchell. Special thanks to Nanaa Akua, Bradley Riches, PPAS and Mr. Kieron Lee.

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Paula McGowan

Paula McGowan grew up in Liverpool and is married to Tom McGowan who is a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force. She has three children. Following the untimely death of her youngest child Oliver, Paula has dedicated her life to campaigning for better health care for people who have autism and learning disabilities.

She is passionate that all doctors and nurses should receive mandatory training in autism and learning disability awareness. Paula has recently moved to Australia with her husband but her campaigning continues to go from strength to strength.

She attends health care conferences and has done several talks about what happened to Oliver. At the 2018 Autism Hero Awards, Paula received the Special Recognition Award.