Community Award 2020 - 2021

Every year the Chelwood Bridge Rotary Club seeks nominations from surrounding Parish Councils regarding outstanding individuals who have demonstrated a significant voluntary contribution to their local community. Last year, in addition to an overall winner award and amidst the background of the global pandemic, the Club thought it appropriate to also make a special Covid-19 related award.

We are pleased to announce that the overall 2020 Community Award winner was Mrs Sam Oliphant from Chew Magna – Sam’s good work spans many years, starting with a small informal meeting group for the over 70s in Chew Magna which grew to over 30 members who continue to meet regularly. She then added for the benefit of the group ‘Monthly Birthday Breakfasts’, weekly table tennis & yoga sessions and the occasional days out where she hires and drives a 16 seater bus! Following the Covid-19 outbreak she came up with a number of innovative actions, including Chew Chat on the cricket pitch, to keep the group together whilst adhering to Government pandemic guidelines.

We are also pleased to announce that the Club’s special 2020 Covid-19 award goes to Karen Aniola from High Littleton – when the pandemic struck Karen quickly mobilized over 25 volunteers to offer help to any vulnerable member of her local community, this resulted in the formation of the ‘High Littleton Volunteer Army’. She set up a Facebook page for communication between her group of volunteers to ensure that any requests for help were dealt with effectively and she kept everyone in the group up-to-date, forming a real sense of community and team spirit.

Both Karen and Sam were presented with personalized Rose Bowls and certificates at separate informal events on Saturday 17^th July and Sunday 18^th July respectively.

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