Cherry

Now in its fourth year, the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards honours extraordinary women with some truly incredible stories to tell.

This year’s overall winner was Iris Billing from St Austell, Cornwell. After losing her 16-year-old daughter Tanya to a rare form of leukaemia in 2005, Iris was so inspired by Tanya’s bravery throughout her gruelling treatment that she founded Tanya’s Courage, a charity offering financial support to young adult cancer patients throughout Cornwall. Many of these young patients would lose everything they have without Iris’s help, so she really is making an incredible difference.

After hearing Iris’s story, Cherry wanted to donate a prize to the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards. So, we’re currently redesigning the visual identity for Tanya’s Courage, and will soon be launching with a new content-managed website and blog. All should make life much easier for Iris – and hopefully help raise lots more money for such a great cause.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to make it along to the awards to see Iris collect her prize, but we have it on good authority that the host – none other the great Jimmy Osmond – gave Cherry a big-up of cosmic proportions.

Well done Iris. And nice one Jimmy!