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Delivery subject to availability in your area. 2 in association with Welcome CALLUM BAIRD, EDITOR, GLASGOW TIMES It is my great pleasure This event has honoured the and privilege to accomplishments of Scottish women for welcome you to the more than half a century and every one of 58th annual Glasgow our nominees over the decades have been Times Scotswoman of inspirational. But this year it feels the Year Awards, in particularly important. association with the St. Enoch Centre. We are delighted, therefore, to once again celebrate the remarkable work and deeds This has been a year of Scotland’s women. The 2020 awards like no other. The attracted numerous superb nominations and, pandemic has changed as I am sure you will agree, a young SWOTY everything. From shortlist and a group of Scotswoman of the doctors and nurses Year finalists who are truly inspirational. to politicians and teachers, scientists, and other key workers – I hope that you have a wonderful and Scotland’s women have kept us going through memorable evening and will join me later in the most difficult year in modern history. wishing our finalists the best of luck. 3 in association with 4 in association with Welcome ANNE LEDGERWOOD, CENTRE DIRECTOR, ST. ENOCH CENTRE As Centre Director of and public sector clients. Among the projects St. Enoch Centre in she undertook was a rebranding of St. Enoch Glasgow and Chair Centre. In 2009, she was appointed Marketing of the City Centre Director by owners Ivanhoe Cambridge. Retail Association, Since joining St. Enoch Centre, Anne has Anne Ledgerwood is repositioned the Glasgow mall as a leading one of the city’s most destination for families. Her role in attracting influential retail figures. world-famous toy store Hamleys to St. Enoch Anne, a mother of two, Centre has helped to increase footfall from has spent 15 years 12 million visitors annually to nearly 20 million in shopping centre visitors each year. management, gaining St. Enoch Centre has long been at the heart an MBA along the way. of Glasgow and Anne continues to drive this She began her retail career as Marketing through partnerships with public, private and Manager at Braehead, where she played a not for profit organisations. leading role in establishing the Renfrewshire She looks forward to launching St. Enoch shopping centre as a destination, brand and Centre’s £40 million leisure development this major Scottish business. year and continuing to work with partners In 2004, Anne left to establish her own to promote Glasgow as a world-class retail business, working with a range of private destination. 5 in association with in association with Running Order INTRODUCTIONS Cathy MacDonald WELCOME Host Callum Baird, Editor, Glasgow Times Cathy MacDonald AND Anne Ledgerwood, Centre Director, St Enoch Centre Cathy MacDonald is a bilingual broadcaster PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD TO and producer from the Isle of Lewis. She YOUNG SCOTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR currentlyC presents a live daily features lunchtime programme, for BBC Radio nan Gaidheal, in her native Gaelic language, and is one of the regular presenters on the PRESENTATION OF AWARD TO Religion and Ethics programme, Sunday Morning With, on BBC Radio Scotland. SCOTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR 6 2020 Young SWOTY Finalists in association with LUSIA STEELE, 20, ERSKINE ROSEANNA CAMPBELL, 21, JULIANA SWEENEY-BAIRD, 17, Cyclist Lusia Steele took the silver medal EDINBURGH BEARSDEN in her first European Championships. She Roseanna, who was in care throughout her Juliana is losing her sight due to a rare started cycling with the Johnstone Jets, a teens and became homeless at the age of genetic condition, but she continues to community club set up by her dad. Hooked 16, has become a champion volunteer at 6VT triumph in ice skating, training five times on the sport since childhood, Lusia worked Edinburgh City Youth Café. Roseanna has a week. She is ranked first in the world for hard through Scottish Cycling programmes, been a youth board member for four years, inclusive skating and is a current British junior and started making a name for herself at the was elected as President and has recently champion. Juliana is an ambassador for junior world and Euro championships. She been selected as 6VT’s Youth Ambassador, Inclusive Skating – a world-recognised charity is now on course to represent Britain at the which has enabled her to attend many events that promotes the sport for young people with Olympics in 2024. supporting young people across the city. physical and learning disabilities. 7 2020 Young SWOTY Finalists in association with AMANDA AMAESHI, 16, KATIE PAKE, 12, GLENROTHES DUNFERMLINE Schoolgirl and champion swimmer Katie Pake Award-winning writer Amanda raises has raised thousands of pounds for children’s awareness of issues such as the lack of cancer charities. She had a type of bone women in STEM and the harms of fast cancer, which led to the amputation of her fashion. She is a member of the Girlguiding leg when she was nine. Since then, she has Advocate Panel, a panel of 18 young made it her mission to increase awareness women in the UK aged 14-25 who speak of childhood cancer to help others. Katie out on issues that matter to girls and young takes off her prosthetic leg to swim and has women across the country. She is also a won gold medals at the junior and senior spokesperson for Girlguiding Scotland and a Scottish Disability Sport National Swimming member of the YSHealth Panel, a youth-led Championships. As well as training four times panel who focus on health and wellbeing a week in the pool, she plays football and is issues concerning young people in Scotland. a wheelchair racer. 8 Let us Entertainyou in association with Melanie Masson Marina Rolink Len Pennie Melanie Masson shot to the British public’s Marina Rolink is a Glasgow based Len Pennie is a student of modern attention with her powerhouse vocals and Singer-songwriter with a distinct, warm languages and a poet who writes heart rending performances of Janis Joplin’s voice and songwriting style. Full of predominantly in the Scots language. Cry Baby. With millions of hits on Youtube of emotion and honesty, her songs tell She is passionate about the promotion her first audition, she very quickly became an stories of love, heartache and all the of minority languages and the X Factor favourite. Growing up in Glasgow the stuff in between. Marina has an destigmaisation of mental illness. She with her performer parents, she sang in endearing manner on stage and you is the poet laureate of the St Andrews venues all over Scotland from an early age. are sure to leave her shows feeling Society of Los Angeles. She first trained at her parents’ stage school like you’ve made a new friend. She and went on to train in Music and Drama at claims to draw influence from the likes Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She of Laura Marling and Sufjan Stevens has previously been a solo recording artist and she studied the art of songwriting and a session singer, touring all over the at the Academy of Music and Sound world and performing alongside artists such in Glasgow. Be sure to catch her next as Pink and The Stereophonics and had Top headline show at the Glad Cafe in 40 hits with WiFi and with The Bassheads. Glasgow on November 19th 2021. She is an advocate of Woman Power which she demonstrates in the video for her recent single ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’ 9 2020 SWOTY Finalists in association with Linda Bamford Professor Jill Belch OBE Maja & Mirka Jankowska, Linda, who is chairperson of Disability Jill’s campaign Masks for Scotland raised Holly Baxter-Weir, Clare Boyle - Equality Scotland, was a frontline nurse more than £430,000 and delivered more than For The Love of Scrubs and paramedic who had to give up her job 1 million pieces of PPE around the country because of a spinal cord injury. She turned in six months. The Professor of Vascular The four women behind this appeal to her attention to disability campaigning and Medicine coordinated a mammoth volunteer provide scrubs to frontline workers during was responsible for the widespread adoption logistics effort and social media campaign the pandemic raised more than £10,000 in of the ‘walking, wheeling and cycling’ enlisting support of general public and the first 48 hours and enlisted more than transport policy, ensuring wheelchair users celebrities alike. In her day job, Professor 1200 volunteers across the country. At one were considered during pedestrian area Belch is renowned for having developed point 9000 people were signed up to their designs across Scotland.