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Finalists revealed for the Young Person of the Year at Pride of Cumbria Awards 2025
The Pride of Cumbria 2025 Young Person of the Year award was created to recognise the 'many young people under the age of 16 who make an excellent contribution to their communities' as well as recognising the importance of young people in the region.
The event will be held on Wednesday, June 18 at the Greenhill Hotel, Wigton.
The finalists are:
Lilly Mae Grimes
Lilly Mae Grimes (Image: Supplied)
The 11 year old from Barrow in Furness has had a tough few years losing two grandads and her biological father all within 12 months, before finding out that her stepdad had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Lilly started counselling with cancer care and decided that she wanted to give back and so started making beaded pens and selling them with the proceeds being split between Cancer Care and Christie's Hospital in Manchester. So far she has raised over £1,000.
Her nominator said: "Lilly Mae has just received a large order for 200 keyrings so will make her total raised to over £1,500. She has a heart of gold and will do anything for anyone. She juggles all of this around school and helping care for her step father who is on palliative end of life care."
Bailey White
Bailey White (Image: Supplied) The six year old from Dearham was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in June 2025 at five years old. Since his diagnosis he has shared his story with friends in class, his teachers, family and even strangers.
Bailey has worked really hard to fundraise money to buy books for newly diagnosed children and helped with his schools diabetes day where he made a 'hypo' kit for every child and a leaflet to spread awareness within the community.
His nominator said: "I feel for a six year old to have achieved such amazing things and to help families with young children going through a life long auto-immune disease is just outstanding."
Izzy and Summer Tinkler, Mia Hughes and Layla Harris
Izzy, Summer, Mia and Layla (Image: Supplied) The group of youngsters from Maryport, worked tirelessly during their February half term holidays to make and sell items on their charity stall, aiming to raise money for two charities in memory of Sadie Reed from the town who died at the age of 14.
Their nominator said: "I feel the girls should be awarded for their act of kindness, persistence and compassion to help those who are in terrible suffering."
