Awards - Special Recognition Award

The Award

This award is made for outstanding contribution to charity campaigning.

Daniel De Gale, who died on 8 October, 2008, aged 21, was a former leukaemia patient who helped promote much-needed bone marrow donations from the black community.

The severe shortage of black donors when Daniel was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of six inspired his parents - Beverley De Gale and Orin Lewis - to found the ACLT with the aim of increasing the number of people from ethnic minorities on the UK Bone Marrow Register.

The charity was successful in recruiting donors from the police force, fire brigade and at universities and colleges.

Volunteers worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the need for donors and staged recruitment registration clinics across the UK, focussing on towns and cities with a large black population. They also supported families suffering because of leukaemia. The ACLT recently passed the milestone of recruiting approximately 29,000 donors across the key UK Registries, which has significantly contributed to saving the lives of 25 people.

Daniel is a London Legend and as such we are honoured ourselves to be able to posthumously award him the special recognition award by presenting his parents with the trophy. He truly represented all that is great about the wonderful multicultural city of London.