Shine Awards 2024 winners honoured at Cruden Farm
Regional women making a difference in their communities have been honoured at the eighth annual Shine Awards lunch. See the picture gallery.
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Regional women making a difference in their communities have been honoured at the eighth annual Shine Awards lunch.
A national campaign by News Corp masthead The Weekly Times, supported by Harvey Norman, the Shine Awards celebrate rural and regional women right across Australia.
Charity founder Danny Mayson-Kinder, from Primrose Sands in Tasmania, was named the overall winner for founding a charity focused on emotional wellbeing programs for schoolkids.
She was inspired to act after her 12-year-old daughter, Billie, died in a horse accident on the family farm in 2016. She created the b kinder foundation – a play on Billie’s initials – as a way to not only honour her daughter, but spread messages of positivity and kindness to children everywhere.
The foundation’s b kinder day has 160 schools participating so far.
“I am Billie’s voice now. It is very humbling to make a difference. If I have to be here without her, then I have to do something worthwhile,” Ms Mayson-Kinder said.
Herald and Weekly Times chairman Penny Fowler and Harvey Norman chief executive Katie Page presented the awards at Cruden Farm in Langwarrin on Monday.
Ms Page said Ms Mayson-Kinder’s “phenomenal work is made more poignant by the voice she uses to guide and educate children”, referencing her late daughter.
Mrs Fowler said the “incredible” women recognised in this year’s awards “embody unique Australian stories – stories that help inform our national identity”.
Also honoured were community fundraiser Katrina Ogden from Wanalta in Victoria; food waste entrepreneur Kelly Johnson from Wall Flat in South Australia; rural healthcare advocate Felicity Burton from Cooranga North in Queensland; agriscientist Tegan Nock from Orange in NSW; women’s rugby league champ Bianca Scrymgour from Darwin in the Northern Territory; and horsewoman Sarah Wheeler from Rowena in NSW.
Originally published as Shine Awards 2024 winners honoured at Cruden Farm
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