27-04-2025
Meet the 89-year-old whose social enterprise has goodness baked in
An 89-year-old who founded a social enterprise supporting adults with learning disabilities has won The Times Sternberg Active Life Award this year.
Created in 2008 by the late Sir Sigmund Sternberg — a Hungarian-British businessman and philanthropist — in partnership with The Times, the awards celebrate outstanding contributions made by people over 70 to their communities and to public life.
Dr Denis Durno founded The Bread Maker, a bakery that employs adults with special needs, in 2006. Since then, it has supported more than 200 people.
Durno, who worked as a GP in Aberdeen for more than 30 years, has been helping people with learning disabilities since the late 1960s when he sought specialised education for two of his sons, Scott and Cameron, both of
