Volunteers’ Week 2011 - Awards Ceremony

Another successful Volunteer Awards Ceremony

To celebrate National Volunteers’ Week again this year, Community Links Bromley hosted the fourth Annual Volunteer Awards Ceremony.

26 volunteers received recognition for the outstanding contribution they have made to the organisations they volunteer for, one of them being Jake who is a PAT dog .( Pets As Therapy). Jake is taken regularly to visit Harris Hospiscare, supporting patients in the day centre.

Awards were also given to volunteers for outstanding service as a Trustee, for recognition of the value of an outstanding Volunteer Manager and for recognition of a volunteer-involving organisation’s positive engagement with volunteers.

We were joined by the Mayor of Bromley, Cllr David McBride who presented the Awards; Paul Elliott, MBE, our guest who spoke about the value of volunteering in sport and the health, wellbeing and social integration benefits; Leslie Marks who presented the Leslie Marks Trustee Award and Bromley Mytime’s Primetime Buddies who entertained us with an audience participation exercise routine and some personal examples of the value of volunteering.

The 2011 Volunteers’ Week award winners were:

Richard Barnes, Carers Bromley
Hilary Collings, SSAFA Forces Help
Emma Harmer, Bromley Mind
Joyce Cashmore and Jake, Harris Hospiscare
Ann and Bob Potten, Age Concern Orpington
Shelagh Collings, Harris Hospiscare
Anthony Streeter, Bromley Mencap
Adam Wadey, Bromley Mytime
Katie Schiavi, CarePlus
Lauren Pinkerton, Croft Tea Room
Solange Augustin, JusB
Faye Holyoake, Hayes School
Alexandra Lowton, Hayes School
Becky Jones, Hayes School
Lucy Wood, Friends of Coney Hall Park
Pat Mack, FOAL Farm
Betty Morgan, Harris Hospiscare
Ronald Smale, SSAFA Forces Help
Elizabeth Fabian, Refugee Day Centre
Linda Muller and Toby Bromage, Kent Association for the Blilnd
Nancy Rowlands, National Osteoporosis Society
Anthony Clarke, Harris Hospiscare
Tom Marley, Burgess Autistic Trust
Steve Spicer, FOAL Farm
Branwen Austin-Jones, Bromley Mencap – Leslie Marks Trustee Award
Jenny Connors, FOAL Farm – Volunteer Manager’s Award
Jenny Batt, Creative Learning Department at Churchill Theatre –Volunteer Involving Organisation Award

Congratulations to our winners and thank you to everyone who nominated. If you follow this link, you can see some of the highlights of the event on our FlickR site.