{"id":411711,"date":"2025-09-09T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411711\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:56:09","slug":"pride-as-birmingham-teenager-wins-inspirational-wellchild-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411711\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride as Birmingham teenager wins inspirational WellChild award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Hayward told BBC Radio WM: &#8220;Ansel was very lucky to get the inspirational child award. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think they recognised [his] resilience and commented on how much he loves animals and recycling and looking after the planet &#8211; so we were very, very, very proud of him when he won.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;It&#8217;s just recognition for Ansel. He has some down days and some times when he feels sad and overwhelmed &#8211; [he&#8217;s] in hospital a lot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So to have something like this, to always treasure and look back on, amazing pictures, fantastic award &#8211; it just gives us hope and strength to keep going even when it&#8217;s hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ansel&#8217;s seizures can last for hours and often require emergency hospital care, but a spokesperson for WellChild, which is the national charity for seriously ill children, said: &#8220;Despite this, he shows remarkable bravery, making mature decisions about his treatment and always focusing on living life to the fullest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Known to be a kind and compassionate young man, Ansel has a deep love for animals, nature and the environment and enjoys litter picking, recycling, and finding creative ways to reuse everyday items.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Hayward told BBC Radio WM: &#8220;Ansel was very lucky to get the inspirational child award. &#8220;I think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-411711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115177048226827267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}