Nominations for this year’s Community Stars Awards are coming in thick and fast.

From great-grandparents, treasured charities and special sports stars, you, the readers, haven’t been shy in letting us know who deserves to pick up an award in November.

Today, we’re calling for nominations for Carer of the Year. Perhaps one of your parents tends to another as well as the rest of the family? Or has a carer in a hospice made a huge difference to your family?

To give you some inspiration, last year’s nominations included a woman who spent more than 80 years looking after the sick, needy and downtrodden.

Marjorie Cozens, 86, was nominated by her best friend Beryl Chippendale.

From an early age Marjorie, who eventually won the award, was caring for others and initially started caring through her local Sunday school where she ran a lunch club.

In her adult life she took it on herself to visit the sick and elderly in hospital and at home.

Beryl said: “She has looked after so many people over the years. Even now, as an 86-year-old, she comes round and looks after me.

“We have been friends since school and are still friends now. If anyone deserves this award it is her. She is fantastic.”

Other nominations included Allison Fackrell, who was described by friends and family as one of the most dedicated foster carers in the country.

Her nomination detailed how, over the years, she had taken in countless children and treated every one of them as a fully-fledged member of her family. She takes them on family holidays, attends every attraction going and does everything in her power to provide them with a normal life, despite the fact she suffers from her own health problems.

Her friend Lisa Mighall said: “Allison deserves an award as she is a remarkable, outstanding, caring, dedicated person. Any child that is placed in Allison's care is a very lucky child.”

Finally, an inspirational young lady Sophie Jordan, 13 at the time, was the youngest nominee in the category.

Despite her young years, she looks after her mum who has scoliosis of the spine which causes her chronic pain. With her grandparents also both suffering ill health, she is responsible for looking after her four siblings. As well as cooking and cleaning, she has to do all the little things most parents take for granted – such as putting her brothers and sisters to bed.

Jackson Hall, from the Association of Carers, said in her nomination: “Not only is she an absolute star for caring in the way she does, but she is a fantastic girl with a lovely personality.”