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Prime Minister recognises volunteer fundraisers
Submitted by pennystephens on 25 July, 2008 - 09:04.
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has recognised six volunteer fundraisers as Everyday Heroes.
The achievements of Alison Cordwell, Liam Fairhurst, Elizabeth Haycock, Chris Lavender and Phil Pemble were celebrated at a reception at 10 Downing Street earlier this week.
Lindsay Boswell, chief executive of the Institute of Fundraising said "There are hundreds of thousands of volunteer fundraisers who collectively raise a huge amount of money each year. In turn, they make a phenomenal contribution to the work that many voluntary organisations are able to undertake."
Thirteen year old Liam Fairhurst of Soham also won the Volunteer Fundraiser of the year at the recent Institute of Fundraising National Awards. Despite being diagnosed with cancer in his leg in 2005, Liam has now raised more than £150,000 for CLIC Sargent.
The other volunteers have raised funds for Springhill Hospice in Lancashire, Marie Curie Cancer Care, RAF Benevolent Fund, RNLI, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, Macmillan Cancer Support and SPACE.
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Prime Minister recognises volunteer fundraisers
The people who have been recognised by Gordon Brown are very lucky and must be congratulated for their hard work. I wrote to Gordon Brown after all his talk about how voluntary organisations will be helped by the Government and how much funding is going to be available. Surprise, surprise - I eventually received a reply from someone at one of his offices who stated that the letter had been passed to another office and now months have gone by and still no reply from them with any suggestions of help we can be given. Does Gordon Brown and his government really want to help the voluntary sector or does he just say he does so that it will look good on his future CV!