A teenager has spent prize money he received after being named Young Citizen of the Year 2020 on Christmas presents for hospital patients.

Sahil Usman, aged 14, from Blackburn, was honoured this year for his extensive work helping young cancer patients, while also fighting his own battle with Leukaemia.

Despite becoming increasingly ill and going through intense chemotherapy the QEGS pupil's sense of compassion and his need of helping others took priority.

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For two years Sahil, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2018, has organised a project which delivers Christmas presents for children who have to spend the festive season in hospital because they are too poorly to go home.

This year was no different and he decided to spend some of the £500 he received after being named the High Sheriff of Lancashire’s Young Citizen of the Year 2020 on presents for children at the Royal Blackburn Hospital and Royal Manchester Hospital.

He delivered the presents himself to both hospitals.

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Inspirational Sahil has also been presented with The Diana Award this year, and won the Trinity College London Education Achievement Award at Blackburn's Fusion Awards in July last year.