The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
Thank You to All Our Great Volunteers’
Our amazing volunteers at the Samson Centre for MS have won a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. So proud #QAVS2018
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service accolade is the highest award given to volunteer groups across the UK and has an equivalent status to an MBE for individuals. The Award is across all regions in the UK. It was created in 2002 to celebrate the anniversary of the Queen’s coronation.
Tracey Crouch, Minister for Sport and Civil Society, said:
“Everyone who has received this award should be incredibly proud. Their service, commitment and care has a profoundly positive impact on communities throughout the country and I am delighted they have been recognised with this prestigious award.”
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service Independent Committee Chair, former broadcast journalist Sir Martyn Lewis said:
“The recipients of the Queen’s Award are at the very top of a formidable volunteering movement in the UK involving millions of our citizens, and going from strength to strength.”