Penny Melville-Brown is a British Royal Navy veteran, blind baker and winner of the Holman Prize.
She was medically discharged from the Royal Navy in 1999 after her eyesight deteriorated[1] and she created Disability Dynamics to help other people with disabilities to start a business.
She was appointed OBE in the 2009 Birthday Honours "For services to Disabled and Disadvantaged People.
[5] In late 2017 she was seriously injured in a car crash in France, and in a coma for five weeks.
[6] In March 2022, she self-published her second[clarification needed] cook-book: A cook's tour: Baking Blind goes global.