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Community Group finalist The Music Man Project Kent
The Music Man Project teaches those with learning disabilities to sing and play music.
Active finalist the Allstride Collective.
This relatively new running group is based on the Isle of Sheppey.
Active finalist The Team Phoenix Foundation
Team Phoenix train a group of women who have had breast cancer to complete a triathlon.
Active finalist Adam Brownsword
Adam has started Learning disability tennis sessions at Canterbury tennis club.
Active finalist Vince O'Connell
Vince has been involved with physical training all his life and at 89 he's still doing it
Environmental finalist Mark Herbert, Combwell Wood
This SSSI site just outside Kilndown is being managed with biodiversity in mind.
Environmental finalist The Bearsted Woodland Trust
The trust look after 28 acres of woodland, meadow and open space in Bearsted.
Environmental finalist Phil Riches creator of Maidstone's Scenic Green Trail
Inspired during Covid, Phil has created a 42 mile walking route.
Environmental finalist Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership Ashford volunteer group
When we visited, the group were hard at it in the heat clearing invasive Himalayan balsam
Surprising the 2026 Young Hero finalists
What happened when we rang this year's Young Hero category finalists?
