Rob Burrow and family, Christine Talbot and Brain Deane attend The Yorkshire Children of Courage Awards 2024 launch

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We caught up with Host Christine Talbot and Former LUFC player Brian Deane at the launch of the Yorkshire Children of Courage Awards 2024 which was attended by previous winners, including Rob Burrow’s daughter Maya.

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00:00 The 12th Yorkshire Children of Courage Awards launch was attended by some previous winners

00:05 including Rob Burrow and his family. His daughter Maya won the Compassionate Carer Award with

00:10 sister Macy last year. Supporting the St James' Place Charitable Foundation, we caught up

00:15 with host Christine Talbot and former Leeds United player Brian Dean to discover more.

00:20 The Yorkshire Children of Courage Awards is really one of the most special events that

00:24 I've ever hosted. I've probably done about four years now and I've had the privilege

00:29 of doing the honours on the night alongside John Hammond, my co-presenter. It's a massive

00:36 event, there's usually about 800 people come, but it's a very heartwarming event, there's

00:41 just something different about it because it's all about the children and their unique

00:46 stories and it can be honouring the children from anything from overcoming the odds with

00:52 an illness or a particular challenge. Some of them have started to fundraise in unique

00:58 ways, some of them have achieved sporting or prowess in a particular discipline, but

01:04 every single one of them, their stories get everybody moved and there's often a lot of

01:10 tears on the night, a lot of applause, everybody goes away just feeling so uplifted. For me

01:16 it's really inspirational being involved, when I say inspirational, there's so much

01:22 we can learn from children. We forget as adults how grateful we should be at times, you know,

01:27 and you see some of the fight and some of these courageous children, but it's just a

01:32 reminder of being grounded and how lucky we are, but the fight, we can all take something

01:39 from how they are, so for me it's a wonderful occasion. I do get a bit emotional, but like

01:48 I say, there's so much we can take from the courage of these young people. If you know

01:52 a child that you think deserves a nomination, I say to anyone watching this, get it in because

01:58 it's a very special evening.

01:59 Thank you.

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