# Sheila McKechnie Awards 2008 open for nomination

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/01/23/sheila-mckechnie-awards-2008-open-nomination/
- Published: 2008-01-23T00:01:44+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Sheila McKechnie Foundation is accepting applications for its 2008 awards,
designed to recognise people who are campaigning to change their world locally and
globally.**

Inspired by the legacy of Dame Sheila McKechnie, the award is for people at the 
early stages of a career in campaigning whether it be in a national pressure group
or campaigning charity, as well as people who are campaigning on a voluntary basis
and are relatively new to campaigning as an activity.

Sheila McKechnie Foundation Patron and Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow said of the 
Awards: “We want to make it possible for another Sheila, another passionate informed
campaigner, to break out and raise a voice from beyond organised politics on behalf
of those denied rights and opportunities”.

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Applications close on 14 March 2008.

www.sheilamckechnie.org.uk/awards

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