Lance Haggith

Lance Haggith (born 14 May 1960 in Watford, England) is the founder of the Sports Traider charity in the UK, and winner of the 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero award. He was a Royal Navy reservist for five years, and a National League basketball player and coach.

Awards

2001 Royal Humane Society award for bravery for rescuing a girl from a burning car
2009 Nat West New Business of the Year winner
2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year winner Unsung Hero
2011 Big Society Award winner from David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2012 Olympic torch bearer
2012 Big Venture winner[1]
2017 Honorary Doctorate BSC (outstanding services to sport)

Founder

Lance of London
Microsoft
BCP
Sports Traider charity
Hoops Aid[2]
Sports£Land
BounceBack[3]
Golf Aid
Designer of the calpol sachet and packbuster[4]
Boxing Aid
Puck Aid

References

"About Our Founder". Sportstraider.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
"Basketball fundraiser | GLL | Copper Box Arena | Lance Haggith | Hoops Aid". Gll.org. 2013-09-15. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
"Big Society Award for Lance". Bedfordtoday.co.uk. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
Jo Hill. "Big Venture Challenge winners: Lance Haggith founder of Sports Traider (10 of 25) | Guardian Sustainable Business". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-07-02.

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