Sue Poole
FROM tiny acorns grow mighty oaks goes the saying – a saying applicable to Sue Poole’s Mossley Hill nursery and her charity efforts.
Her nursery had been sponsoring a child in Hyderabad, India, for six years, but it was only a visit to the child’s school in 1996 which revealed its desperate condition.
When the head proudly showed Sue the pile of sand he’d bought towards building work for a new school – and a caretaker living under binliners to ensure it wasn’t stolen – Sue and her husband resolved to multiply their efforts.
After more than £21,000 was raised the school was completed. It now educates 75 street children and has 13 teachers. Everyone gets a hot meal every day of the year.
Helen Kelly
SOLICITOR Helen Kelly has collected an armload of professional accolades since she qualified six years ago.
Helen, who works for DLA Piper, was named Outstanding Professional of the Year by the Law Society and Young Professional of the Year at the Insider Liverpool Professional Awards.
She is chair of the council of the council of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and of the Merseyside Young Professionals.
Maura O’Donnell
BIOCHEMIST Maura O’Donnell has helped establish food manufacturer Vitaflow as one of the fastest growing companies on Merseyside.
Since she joined as director in 1997 she’s employed common sense ideas to help produce nutritious food that people with disease-related malnutrition would actually want to eat – tasty, trendily packaged and easy to use.
She juggles her work with bringing up her four children.
Glynis Lomax
IN 1973 when Glynis Lomax started her career in the Merseyside fire brigade's control room she was one of a tiny minority of women who worked there.
But she worked her way through the ranks to become the only female Fire Service National Examiner and the first to successfully attend the Fire Service College Divisional Command course.
During the recent World Fire Fighter Games in Liverpool she won a gold medal in table tennis and a silver in badminton.
Sue Thompson
AS a midwife at Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialising in supporting teenage mothers-to-be Sue Thompson knew all about what was on offer for them.
But the mother of four boys realised there was a dearth of training and support for young prospective fathers, with the result that they felt left out after the birth.
So she set up an award-winning workshop for young dads-to-be called Hit The Ground Crawling.
Here they learned the basic skills of caring for babies, with advice from older fathers and new teenage dads.
