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These are the amazing people behind the sports stars of tomorrow. In this half hour programme we look back at the extraordinary nominees and winner of the 2006 BBC ‘Unsung Hero Award’.
The film brings together the 15 recipients from across the UK and shows how they put their own time into encouraging sport in the community.
Val Hanover from north Shropshire has spent 30 years organising Special Olympics for thousands of people with learning difficulties. She won the top accolade - BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero Award 2006
Steven Cole who from an early age chose boxing over football has gone on to help train the kids of Swindon in order to “give the lads something to aim for”.
Devoting his life to rugby, Edward Wood uses coaching as a chance to give back to the sport that he loves and enrich the lives and futures of others in the North East.
 Boxing Coach Steven Cole
Jim Hodge, also a coach for the local team of Kilwinning, wants to help kids get healthy and has built a number of local pitches and developed the ‘challenger’, an outdoor activity centre.
But being involved in football isn’t always about coaching as Wally Owst proves. Devoting 40 years of his life to coordinating Sunday league football in Hull he has received the Football Association medal for services to football.
 Racket Ace Jenny Worth
In cricket there are many heroes like Freddie Flintoff, but then there are the real stars like Fred Fragg. Since 1945 he has been involved as a batsman, bowler and umpire in the South East Cricket scene. But now he simply enjoys preparing the fields for the future stars of the sport.
In Derby Tanvir Akram has set up a number of football and cricket teams. While Jenny Worth has run a number of junior table tennis, badminton and tennis groups at Launceston College.
 Football manager Mardy Keating
Jackie Maxwell uses football to encourage children in Northern Ireland to take up the sport, while Mardy Keating of Georgetown has helped to introduce more than 85 girls to the sport and establish her own winning team. And Arthur Peel has created an indoor football training area for local children in Queensbury.
These are sports unsung heroes
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 May 2007 )
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