05/06/2026
Well done Dr Cor Hutton MBE, you are a total inspiration...
We are so proud of Dr Cor Hutton MBE, one of our 2026 Pride of Scotland winners 🎉🎉
The rest of our 2026 winners will be announced on Monday, but we are giving you a sneak peek of the heroes being celebrated next week at Pride of Scotland.
You can watch the Red Carpet Live from 5:30pm on our socials this Monday, with all of the winners' stories going on the Pride of Britain YouTube channel from Friday 12 June.
After falling ill with pneumonia in 2013, Dr Cor Hutton MBE contracted life-threatening sepsis and was given a 5% chance of survival by doctors. To save her life, surgeons had to amputate both hands and her legs below the knee.
Cor, whose son was just a toddler at the time, underwent rehabilitation and learned to walk unaided on prosthetic legs after four months.
During that time, she noticed a lack of support for people who have been through amputation, and just weeks after her surgery, she set up Finding Your Feet.
The charity has raised more than £5 million since it started to fund clubs and activities such as swimming, pilates, skiing as well as peer support groups and vital counselling.
Cor also set three world records including becoming the first female quadruple amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and Ben Nevis.
Since 2016, Cor has campaigned to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation in a bid to get more people to commit to organ, tissue and limb donation. In January 2019, she underwent a 12-hour procedure to become the first Scottish person to receive a double hand transplant.
She is now able to write and drive and last year, Cor met and embraced Deborah Gosling, the twin sister of her double hand donor, Julie Wild.
In an emotional meeting the pair hugged and Cor said of her new hands: “I spend a lot of time looking at them and showing them to people, and of course, I remember Julie every single time.”
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