Friends Receive Queens Award
It has been announced today that the Friends of Sandall Park will receive the Queen’s Award For Voluntary Service (the MBE for volunteer groups).
This prestigious UK National Honour recognises outstanding voluntary contributions and sets the national benchmark for excellence in volunteering, with the work of those awarded being judged to be of the highest standard.
Are we pleased? Dead right we are!
The actual award will be made at a later date by the Lord Lieutenant for South Yorkshire and several of the group have been invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace in July.
Seriously, we are really, really pleased with this award especially as it resulted from nominations from visitors to the park.
To see the full text of the press release click here. To view a full list of the 2011 Queens Award for Voluntary Service Winners click here.
Thank you.
This is fantastic news, not just for FOSP but for Doncaster. Well done everyone x
congratulations to everyone at FOSP for their unstinting hard work to bring the park up to such a standard.The park has been transformed from an almost derelict piece of land to a place of pleasure and activity for so many visitors. Well done all of you.