Janet Paisley Services to Scots is an award that was started at the Scots Trad Music Awards 2016. The Award is given to individuals to have done amazing work in the promotion of Scots language. The award was renamed to Janet Paisley Services to Scots in 2019 after Janet’s death. This award is also called the Janet Paisley Lifetime Achievement Award and is presented at Hands Up for Trad’s Scots Language Awards.
2024: Rab Wilson
2023: Frieda Morrison
2022: Anne Donovan
2021: Derrick McClure
2020: Janet Paisley
2019: Sheena Blackhall
2018: Janet Paisley
2017: Itchy Coo – Matthew Fitt and James Robertson
2016: Billy Kay