Ann-Marie Spence, of Farndon has been nominated by her ten-year-old daughter, Eva, for a "Reach Out Award".

Ann-Marie Spence vowed to make a difference to other people who needed bone marrow transplants when her son Joel Picker-Spence died of cancer just over a year ago,

A bone marrow donor was eventually found, but it was too late to save him.

Ann-Marie has ceaselessly been campaigning to get people on the bone marrow register ever since.