Make a Difference: Together Award Winner 2023
Elspeth Giddens, from the Isle of Wight Story Festival, won the 91热爆 Radio Solent Together Award in 2023.
Elspeth works to ignite children's imaginations through a love of literature.
She organises the annual Isle of Wight Story Festival, which includes guest authors, drama, storytelling and workshops, as well as working in schools.
She said: "If you have these stimulating events when you're young, you don't forget them.
"What have we got as human beings? We've got imagination - and that can carry you through life."
The Make a Difference Awards are a chance to say 鈥淭hank You鈥� and show recognition and appreciation for people who love to make life better for others.
Nominations for the 2024 awards are now open and will close on Sunday 10 March 2024 at 11:00pm.
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