This award honours Ian Wilson, a former hospital board Chair and Chair of the UHKF 'Together We Can' campaign for Kingston's health-care facilities and tireless volunteer with a wide range of community and health-related organizations.
The award is granted annually to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding volunteer efforts in the solicitation of donations benefitting Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Providence Care through an event, organized campaign or informal activity.
Any volunteer, hospital staff member, hospital board or committee member, or third-party event organizer may be nominated. Nominations will be accepted from anyone within the hospital community.
2025 Award Recipient: Peter Kingston
Peter Kingston's decade-long commitment to end-of-life care advocacy has helped bring Kingston’s new hospice residence to life. As chair of the Hospice Kingston campaign cabinet since 2014, Peter led a dedicated team of volunteers in raising over $16 million. His passionate storytelling, tireless fundraising efforts and personal philanthropy culminated in the opening of Providence Care’s Hospice AB Smith Homestead House in March 2025, providing compassionate, residential hospice care for the community.
Previous Recipients
- 2024Evelyn Maizen
- 2023Richard Kizell
- 2021John Armitage
- 2020Michael Robinson
- 2019Dr. Albert Jin
- 2018Susan Creasy
- 2017Erin Finn
- 2016Martin teen Hove
- 2015Jennifer Fisher
- 2014Sherri McCullough
- 2013Richard Kizell
- 2012Chris Cunningham
- 2011Chandra Davies
- 2011Tanya MacDonald
- 2011Mac Voisin