Six-year-old boy among Make a Difference winners

The youngest ever Make a Difference award winner - a six-year-old boy - was among those presented with an accolade at a ceremony at the Bowood Estate, Wiltshire.

The BBC Radio Wiltshire awards celebrate people who have contributed to the local community and are judged by local celebrities, such as Actress Liza Goddard and Great British Bake Off star Mike Greenwood-Wilkins.

Fletcher Gale, from Corsham, has been given the Young Hero award after his work raising money and the profile of ERIC, The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity.

One new award category was the Active Award category, judged by Winter Olympian Laura Deas.

Fletcher Gale has a rare bowel condition - his mother, Hannah, said life was very difficult for Fletcher from a young age, but despite struggling with mobility issues he wanted to fundraise, collecting more than £40,000 through selling poo emoji keyrings and holding a litter picking event.

"He really wanted to help other people because he was tired of suffering himself," she said.

Trevor Goodall has raised £2m for charity

Coming away with the fundraiser award was Trevor Goodall who founded New Life in 1995 after his sons, Joshua and Samuel, died. They suffered complications after being born three months' prematurely.

Since then, Mr Goodall has raised more than £2m for neonatal units and maternity departments across the country, saying on stage that it was a "massive legacy" for his twin boys.

Jane Sims has been encouraging people in care homes to be active

Jane Sims, from Chippenham, was given the active award for bringing a dementia-friendly seated gymnastics programme to care homes.

She hoped to introduce Love to Move to 40 care homes in Wiltshire last year, but she exceeded expectations and has now delivered the programme to more than 100 homes.

She said: "I walk into the room and get such a big smile, it's so uplifting."

Pan the dog came along to the awards as an ambassador for animal ward winner WAGs

The other winners were:

• Animal Award: WAGs, the retired Police Dogs Charity, which pays vet bills for police dogs when they retire as their owners do not get financial support.

• Community Group Award: Best-Be a Better You, Swindon, which offers mentoring and sport programmes for young people.

• Great Neighbour Award: Sue MacKinder, Dinton, who runs the Cosy Cuppa group for all ages, which gives people who are isolated a chance to interact once a week inside the village's cricket pavilion.

• Green Award: Anna Forbes, Marlborough, who runs the charity Action for the River Kennett.

• Volunteer Award: Sarah Pender, Devizes, for the work she does to train illiterate inmates to learn to read, through the Shannon Trust.

The other finalists received Highly Commended awards, having been whittled down from more than 300 nominations.

Carly Appleby, the executive editor of BBC Radio Wiltshire, said: "The Make a Difference Awards are about celebrating individuals who go above and beyond to support people in their communities.

"Radio Wiltshire has shined a light on these local heroes who are all making a real difference and giving up their own time to help people locally across Wiltshire."