Double Platinum Jubilee royal honour for Eastbourne community group
The community interest company has received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and equivalent to an MBE.
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Hide AdHelen Burton, the founder and CEO of Volunteers Network and also a serving Eastbourne borough councillor, has also been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to the community, particularly during Covid-19.
Volunteers Network manages Pevensey Community Library, Langney Community Centre, Grow Eastbourne (food growing and sharing), Langney Community Cafe and the Langney Larder, Eastbourne’s first community fridge.
During the first lockdown Helen was amongst the first in the country to establish a telephone befriending service responding to the pandemic and reducing isolation for some of the most vulnerable members of the community.
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Hide AdHer work was mentioned in much of the national press and inspired many other services to form.
Helen said: “The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is testament to the hard work undertaken by my two co-directors Daniel Brookbank and Peter Finnis and all of the volunteers who have ever supported us.”
Visit www.volunteersnetwork.co.uk for more information.