WE ALL NEED ANOTHER HERO...

	WE ALL NEED ANOTHER HERO...
		DAVID JAMES David is the co-ordinator of the Positive Health scheme at the
		Central YMCA in London - a scheme that is now to expand nationwide. He has helped over 300 positive people during the last five years by running the first-ever mentored health and fitness programme directed at people with HIV. One nominator says: "I can't praise David's skills at supporting and teaching people highly
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	enough." Another said: "As a 51-year old who never went near a gym before, I feel David has helped me enormously, both in my physical health and my feelings about myself."
	CATE JACOBS One word cropped up among nominations for Cate Jacobs: "inspirational". Cate is known for her regular columns in Positively Women Newsletter and Positive Nation. But it was mainly for the example she set as an HIV positive woman and mother living life to the full that people cited. One said: "The thing about Cate is that she shows the rest of us how much more to life there is than HIV. She doesn't let HIV define or limit her in any way and is always looking for, and showing the rest of us, new possibilities in life."
		MICHAEL EDWARDS
		Michael is known to thousands as the friendly face at the reception desk at the Lighthouse in West London. He has worked there uninterruptedly for 12 years despite his own diagnosis in 1995. Nominator Peter Taylor said: "the first sight you see at the Lighthouse is Michael's smiling face at reception. He is widely known
		for his warmth, humour and kindness and the incredible rapport he has with the many people who have used the building over the years. He thinks he is unimportant, 'just doing his bit'. I, and many others, know different."