{"id":72451,"date":"2025-07-17T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?page_id=72451"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:01:18","slug":"sense-awards-judge-shaun-hayward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/get-involved\/sense-awards\/sense-awards-2025\/2025-sense-awards-judges\/sense-awards-judge-shaun-hayward\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense Awards Judge: Shaun Hayward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun-874x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A man holding wearing a cap holding up a set of medals.\" class=\"wp-image-72459\" style=\"width:482px;height:auto; object-position: 48.31% 26.27%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun-874x1024.jpg 874w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun-600x703.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun-768x900.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun-1310x1536.jpg 1310w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun-1747x2048.jpg 1747w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun-500x586.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun-1365x1600.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shaun.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaun Hayward, 58, is singer-songwriter and medal-winning ballroom and Latin American dancer. A regular on TV and in the media, Shaun was the first blind dancer to qualify and compete at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Shaun, who is on social media as \u2018Sir Blimey\u2019, has enjoyed a long career in music production, running a studio in Leeds. He\u2019s now making a new album, with his guide dog, Kevin, by his side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-hs-group    margin-bottom-4xl\">\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-primary-tint-10 has-x-small-font-size\"><blockquote><p>Sense is a lovely charity and it\u2019s great these Awards exist to celebrate the achievements of disabled people with complex needs. I\u2019m all about positivity and passion and celebrating what disabled people like me can and do achieve every day, so I\u2019m looking forward to reading the nominations and cheers-ing the winners!<\/p><cite><strong>Shaun Hayward<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/2025-sense-awards-judges\/\">Meet the judges<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Time to shine! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/sense-awards\/\">Find out how to nominate a special person and what the Sense Awards categories are.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Hayward, 58, is singer-songwriter and medal-winning ballroom and Latin American dancer. A regular on TV and in the media, Shaun was the first blind dancer to qualify and compete at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Shaun, who is on social media as \u2018Sir Blimey\u2019, has enjoyed a long career in music production, running a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":72447,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"content_label":[],"class_list":["post-72451","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72451\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content_label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_label?post=72451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}