Today we move on to the second category in our countdown to the Examiner Pride of Huddersfield Awards by revealing the three very special people who have been nominated for their Services to Charity.

The sell-out event will be at the John Smith’s Stadium on May 26 and the main sponsor is Syngenta.

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Here are the nominees for the Services to Charity award:

Sue Bray

Examiner Community Awards nominee Sue Bray for services to RSPCA

Sue Bray has given around 38 years voluntary service to the RSPCA – and has been organising its annual horse show almost all that time.

Sue and husband Tim – who is also a volunteer and trustee – have given countless hours organising events, collecting donations, taking the RSPCA caravan to shows, manning the stalls and lots more.

Sue’s main role now has been organising the annual RSPCA horse show for 37 years, keeping a tradition going that started back in around 1940 but even earlier as an animal show, possibly back to the 1920s.

The show used to be held at Greenhead Park but since 2007 has been staged at Hopton Horse Centre at Upper Hopton near Mirfield. It is held on the first Saturday in September.

Over the years it has got ever bigger. In Greenhead Park competitors were in just one ring but now there are six rings in action and the show includes dressage.

Sue, 67, of Linthwaite, was nominated by Kathryn Airey, who said: “Over the years Sue has raised thousands of pounds for the RSPCA in support of animal welfare. Her hard work ensuring costs to stage the show are covered by sponsorship means the money raised on the day is profit for the RSPCA and this goes directly to fund the animals in the care of the branch.”

Last year the show made a profit in excess of £2,500 and every penny goes to the Halifax, Huddersfield and District branch with a considerable amount needed each year to run the RSPCA animal home in Halifax.

Sue said: “We can see exactly what our money is doing to help animals in our area. The number of unwanted horses we have to try to find homes for is crazy, for example. It may be that people simply cannot afford to keep them.”

The tasks Sue needs to tackle to put the show on are vast and include all the administration including health and safety, organising sponsors, booking trade stands and caterers, promoting the event, keeping financial records and sorting out volunteers, judges and stewards.

Kathryn added: “The show is very popular with local horse riders and has an array of trophies and some have been won by the famous Whitaker brothers. To ensure the success of the show Sue has to start organising the next one almost as soon as the last one is over.”

Sue and Tim have two sons, Oliver and Samuel, and a six-month grand-daughter Isabel, the first girl in the Bray family for 100 years.

Rosemary Cleave

Rosie Cleave of the NSPCC.

Rosie Cleave has committed herself to charity fundraising for approaching 60 years.

And in that phenomenal length of time she has raised more than £100,000 for the NSPCC herself and, taking her work as part of group fundraisers, it will be around £500,000.

Her list of fundraising activities is endless, but a snapshot includes bucket collections on the streets of Huddersfield, summer and Christmas fairs, coffee mornings, table top sales, car boot sales, the NSPCC long walk Hack events in the Holme Valley, the Yorkshire Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors and even treks to above the base camp at Mount Everest and in Peru.

The 64-year-old is so dedicated to the cause she even collects wood and chops it up as kindling which she then sells to homes and businesses.

And when she’s come back from her overseas adventures Rosie, who is chairman of the Huddersfield branch of the NSPCC, has then given talks all for free to raise money for the NSPCC.

The retired teacher from Fenay Bridge has worked at Dalton Infant and Nursery School and Ravensthorpe Infant and Nursery. She was nominated by her proud son, Duncan, who said: “She has also ensured there are NSPCC collection tins in shops, pubs and restaurants in Huddersfield and has given countless talks about fundraising activities to encourage others to take part.

“She is undoubtedly committed to the NSPCC and spends most of her time now she is retired to fundraising and is on the Huddersfield area NSPCC committee.”

It all started when Rosie was a child, volunteering to help her late mother, Barbara Taylor, raise money for the Church of England’s Children’s Society before becoming involved with the NSPCC’s League of Pity in 1958. The league was the charity’s youth group and it inspired Rosie for life.

“Helping the charity is my way of saying how lucky am I compared to many others,” she said. “People think of the NSPCC as a national charity but it does so much locally to help children at risk of cruelty and abuse along with their families – and this can happen across the board in both poor and wealthy homes. The NSPCC plays a crucial role.”

Last year she trekked 26 miles through the Peruvian mountains to raise £9,000.

In 2001 her Everest expedition brought in more than £7,500.

Last year she was named a Point of Light by Prime Minister David Cameron in recognition of her efforts for the NSPCC. These awards are to recognise outstanding individual volunteers who are doing extraordinary things in the service of others.

Mr Cameron said: “Even more impressive than climbing Everest and trekking through Peru is the work Rosie has done to enable others to raise money.”

Rosie lost her husband, Ian, last year.

Malcolm MacDonald

Examiner Pride of Huddersfield nominee Malcolm MacDonald.

Malcolm MacDonald has been a tireless supporter of many charities and at the very heart of his community since 1997 ... and has never been busier than he is now.

Over the years he’s raised tens of thousand of pounds for charities and good causes ... so much he’s actually lost count.

The 78-year-old was born in Crosland Moor then moved away for his working life as a tax inspector, returning for his retirement to Shelley when he became Vice Chair of Shelley Community Association, a position he still holds.

And from then on Shelley experienced such a revival as a village that he helped steer Shelley to the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award in 2010.

Malcolm, who has been a blood donor for 60 years, is a firm believer in supporting charities and groups close to home.

He has run all the community association’s fundraising events which have raised precious funds specifically for supporting local groups. Top of this has been the concerts, plays and dances he has put on to raise funds for Shelley Village Hall which allowed the CA to maintain and then take on this building as a community asset transfer – one of the first in Huddersfield. The village hall is a very vibrant community place, home to many local groups which are, in turn, a lifeline to many. Shelley Over 60s is the most successful group of its kind in this area, and the mini-bus used by the group to bring the elderly and infirm from the neighbouring villages was an initiative started by Malcolm – and he is still a regular escort on the bus.

Malcolm also runs the CA’s major annual community-wide fundraisers and these raise several hundred pounds each time for local charities and groups – a greenhouse for Shelley First School, a sensory garden for Shelley College, a roller for the cricket club, a basketball court on the Rec among many.

Malcolm formed and has been chairman of Shelley Conservation Group since 1999, working with developers to provide open spaces and one has become a safe route to school and other community initiatives include a Welly Walk leaflet which attracts visitors to Shelley, an annual French Sunday Lunch to raise funds for Kirkwood Hospice, Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice and Yorkshire Air Ambulance – and has raised thousands of pounds for both.

Malcolm is Shelley’s co-ordinator of the Poppy Appeal and has been a collector for the Royal British Legion for the last 17 years. He has helped raise funds for victims of the Tsunami and a Kenyan Orphanage he visited while on holiday.

He was a governor of Shelley First School for eight years and a Shelley Parish councillor for 12. This year he has become president of Kirkburton Probus Club, a club he joined three years ago, and he has been on the Shelley Gala Committee.

He’s also helped Burton Community Association, he’s been a Santa pulled on a sleigh around Kirkburton and Highburton for the last three years and raised money for Pilling House old folks home in Skelmanthorpe. Other charities helped include Victim Support, the RSPCA and the Bridgewood Trust.

Malcolm was nominated by Ann Priestman from Shelley, who said: “Everyone in this area owes Malcolm’s charitable outlook, practical hands-on skills and fundraising ability a huge debt of thanks. It is often said that ‘every community should have a Malcolm.’ I would estimate that over the years Malcolm has raised nigh on £50,000 for local charities, but raised on a ‘community’ scale rather than a grand scale because Malcolm truly believes in getting communities together – having a champion time as he is a Community Champion.”

Malcolm is married to Lorna and the couple have one daughter, Fiona, and two grandchildren Lara, 22 and James, 18.

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