2018 - Dave Thompson MBE DL MBA Chief Executive, Senior Management at Warrington Disability Partnership at Disability Awareness Day.
Dave is the founder & Co-ordinator of Disability Awareness Day now in its 30th year it is the world's largest pan disability event with 250 exhibitors & 28,000 visitors each year. Promoting a 'can do' culture, DAD has helped raise over £1million for local charities. He supported the development of events in Gibraltar, India, Cameroon & Uganda. He was a founder of Warrington Disability Partnership & its Disability Trading Company, Patron at the Foundation for Peace, Director of ELLA Performance Group & President of Cheshire Police Museum & Warrington Sea Cadets. In 1996 he became a Fellow of Warrington Collegiate Institute, in 2001 he received an MBE for services for disabled people, in 2004 the “Paul Harris Fellowship” International award from Rotary, in 2006 he was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant for Cheshire, in 2011 he received an Honorary MBA from Chester University & a Lifetime Achievement Award from WIRE FM, in 2013 he won the Entrepreneur of Excellence Award for Disability at the National Diversity Awards & in 2014 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Warrington Guardian & in 2018 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Warrington Business Awards. In 2019 he received an Everyday Hero Award from Active Cheshire. He is a full-time wheelchair user as a result of a spinal cord injury sustained in 1989 & a survivor of cancer since 1999/2021.
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Location: Walton Hall and Gardens, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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