Twenty-five-year-old Emma Spiegler has received a national honour for her work with children of drug or alcohol-addicted parents.
Miss Spiegler picked up the award — and a £1,000 prize — at the recent Young People of the Year awards, which recognise and reward positive role models in the community. Organised by SkillsTrain, its judges included the Prime Minister’s wife, Sarah Brown.
Miss Spiegler, the daughter of an alcoholic mother, was inspired to set up coap.co.uk in 2006 — a website offering support to young people living with drug-addicted parents.
“Winning means a lot to me,” she tells People.