The Pride of South Holland Awards 2018 are now in full swing and Janet Pell from Weston Hills is among the first nominations arriving at The Voice and Tulip Events.
Her nominator said: “Janet holds a women’s knitting group called Sew & Sew.
“She provides the wool gets the people together, providing refreshments while they knit for charity.
“The group knits for premature babies Janet has knitted hundreds of little hats for Milton Keynes hospital and a hospital in Buckinghamshire, as well as Pilgrim Hospital in Boston.
“She raised over £2,200 by opening her garden up. She had stalls all over her house for people to buy bric-a-brac, cakes, jewellery and knitted garments.
“The money went to the chemotherapy suite at Pilgrim Hospital.
“She gives to the local church hall events every time, providing tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits for their coffee mornings and fetes.
“She also collects for Help For Heroes.
“Janet knits all day, making jumpers, scarves and anything people ask her to do.
“She sells them and the money goes to whichever charity she is knitting for at that time.
“Janet says knitting and making things gives her a sense of purpose makes her happy to be doing things and raising money for others. She is so selfless and worth her weight in gold.”
The event takes place at the South Holland Centre in September but we’ll be running stories and special features on nominees until then so get thinking who you’d like to be celebrated in the following categories.
Caring Neighbour, sponsored by Mark Jepp.
Senior Citizen,
sponsored by Calthrops Solicitors.
Community Hero, sponsored by Coun Angela Newton.
Special Achievement, sponsored by Springfields.
Community Sports Group, sponsored by Coun
Harry Drury.
Service With A Smile, sponsored by EMG.
Bakkavor Local Charity Champion Award, sponsored by Bakkavor.
Charity Worker, sponsored by Hughes.
Young Achiever, sponsored by Molsoms.
Volunteer of the Year, sponsored by Coun Jack McLean.
Before and After School Social Activities, sponsored by Coun Peter Williams.
See below for details of how to nominate.
There are multiple ways to nominate a person or group for a Pride of Spalding and South Holland Award – there are just some vital points we need to make the entry valid.
Whichever way you send the nomination, be sure to include the following:
Category entered
Name of nominee
Nominee address
Nominee contact details
Your name
Your contact details
A written reason why the nominee deserves the award
A photograph of the nominee if possible
If snail-mail is your preferred method of communication, feel free to post your nomination to:
Pride Awards, The Spalding and South Holland Voice, 2 Goodison Road, Spalding, PE12 6FY.
You can also email in your entries to [email protected], with the subject line ‘Pride Nomination’.
Finally, you can call Jan on 077779 895388 and request a nomination form.
Entry closes August 24.
