Mike Brace
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| Full name | Michael Thomas Brace CBE |
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| Alma mater | Linden Lodge School |
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Michael Thomas Brace CBE DL (born 19 June 1950) is a former paralympic skier, social worker and leader of disabled charities. He was Chief Executive of Vision 2020 UK (2001-2012) and served as Chairman of the British Paralympic Association (2001-2008).[1] He was blinded at the age of ten by an accident with a firework and subsequently attended Linden Lodge School for the Blind in Wimbledon.[2] He gained a Diploma in Social Work from the Polytechnic of North London in 1976 and in the same year competed as a cross-country skier in the inaugural Winter Paralympics.
Brace published the first volume of his autobiography Where there's a will in 1980.[2] He published the second volume in 2017, precised on his official web site. He was awarded the OBE in 2005 and CBE in 2009 for services to paralympic sport.[1]
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1982 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside Bush House in London.[citation needed]
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Who's Who. London: A & C Black. 2014.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brace, Mike (1980). Where there's a will. London: Souvenir Press. ISBN 9780285648937.
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