Jonjo Heuerman honoured in Britain’s New Year’s Honour list for cancer campaign

Britain’s New Year’s Honour list 2016 sees a total of 1,196 people receive an award, more than three-quarters of whom are recognised for community work, either in a voluntary or paid capacity.

Among them is Jonjo Heuerman, who, at 13, is the youngest recipient on this list and receives the British Empire Medal (BEM) after raising £250,000 (€340,000) for the Bobby Moore Fund at Cancer Research UK.

In 2009, Jonjo lost his grandmother to bowel cancer, and in the same year his football hero Bobby Moore died from the disease.