AMAZING WOMEN AWARDS 2020 Your community heroes!
We asked you to nominate your Community Heroes – the incredible, inspirational women making a massive difference where you live. Here we present the shortlist of 15 finalists – three in each of our UK regions – selected in recognition of their enthusiasm, determination and dedication.
What’s more, you will get to vote for your favourites. Just go to womanandhome.com/vote and choose which of these fabulous women you’d like to see in the final line-up of the Amazing Women Awards 2020. Look out for the winners in our November issue.
South East and South West England
REUNITING PETS AND OWNERS
Louise Davies, 60, from Cheltenham, runs animal welfare organisation, Animals Lost and Found in Gloucestershire, working to support devastated owners and reunite them with their lost pets.
Louise says: In 2015, I lost my cat, Daisy, and that sparked the idea to help others through the traumatic experience. I established a social media presence and now use the network to post about missing pets – lost or spotted, roaming. Along with 10 volunteers, we scan chips and check them against a database. We’ve had some lovely reunions – one was a young woman whose cat, Tiger, went missing for four years. Janey Hanson, who nominated Louise, says: Louise really deserves to win – nothing is ever too much trouble for her, she never gives up hope and has made a real difference to so many lives, both the two-legged and four-legged variety.
