Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

The Robert Burns Humanitarian Award is an award presented annually around the time of Robert Burns' birthday to a group or individual who has saved, improved or enriched the lives of others or society as a whole, through self-sacrifice, selfless service, hands-on charitable or volunteer work, or other acts.

The winner receives a 1759 guinea, which signifies the year of the bard's birth and the coinage then in circulation, and a specially commissioned award handcrafted in Scotland.

The judging panel is chaired by David Anderson, chief executive of South Ayrshire Council, and includes journalist and broadcaster Kaye Adams; actor, writer and painter John Cairney; Nat Edwards, director of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum; Habib Malik, former RBHA winner and head of Islamic Relief Scotland; Robert Stewart, president of the Robert Burns World Federation; Guy Willoughby, former RBHA winner and chief executive of the HALO Trust; and Rob Woodward, chief executive of STV.

Award recipients

• 2002: John E. Sulston
• 2003: Yitzhak Frankenthal
• 2004: Clive Stafford Smith
• 2005: Pius Ncube
• 2006: Marla Ruzicka
• 2007: Adi Roche
• 2008: Jonathan Kaplan
• 2009: Guy Willoughby^[1]
• 2010: Habib Malik^[1]
• 2011: Linda Norgrove
• 2012: Karen Graham
• 2013: Khalil Dale OBE
• 2016: David Nott, surgeon^[2]
• 2017: Marcelline Budza
• 2018: Anna Ferrer [Anna was born in Essex and has worked in India since the mid-1960s. She was recognised for her decades of dedication and devotion to women's rights and tackling poverty in her adopted homeland.]
• 2019: Jasvinder Sanghera CBE
• 2020: Josh Littlejohn MBE
• 2021: Mark Williamson (Sweet for Addicts)
• 2022: Dr Digambar Narzary
• 2023: Dr Renuka Ramakrishnan
• 2024 Gail Penfold

From 2014, a new young persons' element was introduced: the Robert Burns Humanitarian Medal, for people aged 16-25 years from anywhere in the world.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Burns Award News". Visind Scotlad. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
2. ^ Surgeon David Nott recalls how Queen's corgis helped him, BBC, 5 June 2016

External links

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Robert Burns

Poems

• "Comin' Thro' the Rye" (1782)
• "John Barleycorn" (1782)
• "Man Was Made to Mourn" (1784)
• "Address to the Deil" (1785)
• "Epitaph for James Smith" (1785)
• "Halloween" (1785)
• "Handsome Nell" (1774)
• "Holy Willie's Prayer" (1785)
• "To a Mouse" (1785)
• The Kilmarnock volume (1786)
• "To a Louse" (1786)
• "To a Mountain Daisy" (1786)
• "The Cotter's Saturday Night" (1786)
• "The Battle of Sherramuir" (1787)
• "The Birks of Aberfeldy" (1787)
• "The Holy Tulzie" (1784)
• "Auld Lang Syne" (1788)
• "My Heart's in the Highlands" (1789)
• "Tam o' Shanter" (1790)
• "Ae Fond Kiss" (1791)
• "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" (1791)
• "Ye Jacobites by Name" (1791)
• "Sweet Afton" (1791)
• "The Slave's Lament" (1792)
• "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad" (1793)
• "Scots Wha Hae" (1793)
• "A Red, Red Rose" (1794)
• "Ca' the yowes" (revised, 1794)
• "A Man's A Man for A' That" (1795)

Books

• Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
  • Edinburgh
  • Belfast
  • Dublin Variant
  • London

Places

• Brownhill Inn
• Burns Cottage
• Drukken Steps
• Ellisland Farm
• Friars Carse
• The Hermitage, Friars Carse
• Irvine Burns Club
• Millmannoch
• Mossgiel Farm
• Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate
• Writers' Museum

Family

• Jean Armour (wife)
• Robert Burns Junior (son)
• Francis Wallace Burns (son)
• William Nicol Burns (son)
• Elizabeth 'Betty' Burns (natural daughter)
• James Glencairn Burns (son)
• Agnes Broun (mother)
• William Burnes (father)
• Gilbert Burns (brother)
• Agnes Burns (sister)
• Annabella Burns (sister)
• William Burns (brother)
• John Burns (brother)
• Isabella Burns (sister)
• Adam Armour (brother-in-law)
• James Armour (father-in-law)
• Robert Burnes (uncle)

People

• Robert Aiken
• Robert Ainslie
• John Anderson
• John Bacon (landlord)
• John Ballantine
• Alison Begbie
• Thomas Blacklock
• Nelly Blair
• Richard Brown
• May Cameron
• Mary Campbell
• Margaret Chalmers
• Jenny Clow
• Alison Cockburn
• Alexander Cunningham (lawyer)
• Lord Glencairn
• Frances Dunlop
• Robert Fergusson
• Alexander Findlater
• Jean Gardner
• Jean Glover
• Robert Graham of Fintry
• Gavin Hamilton
• Helen Hyslop
• Nelly Kilpatrick
• John Lewars
• Janet Little
• Jean Lorimer (Chloris)
• James McKie
• John MacKenzie
• Agnes Maclehose
• John McMurdo
• William Maxwell
• John Murdoch
• William Nicol
• Ann Park
• Elizabeth Paton
• John Richmond
• James Smith
• David Sillar
• John Syme
• Alexander Tait
• Robert Tannahill
• Peggy Thompson
• Edward Whigham

Related

• The Geddes Burns
• Glenriddell Manuscripts
• Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton
• Burns Clubs
• Robert Burns World Federation
• Bust of Robert Burns
  • Irvine
  • Atlanta
• Burns supper
• Memorials
  • Kilmarnock
  • Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783–1785
  • Robert Burns's Interleaved Scots Musical Museum
  • Montreal
  • Barre
  • Albany
  • Boston
• Robert Burns (Stevenson)
• Robert Burns (Steell)
• Robert Burns's diamond point engravings
• Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate
• Robert Burns Humanitarian Award
• The Loves of Robert Burns (1930 film)
• "The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren"
• "The Merry Muses of Caledonia"
• The Poetical Works of Janet Little, The Scotch Milkmaid
• A Manual of Religious Belief