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Cassie gets Volunteer of the Year
Cassie Awarded Volunteer of the Year by The Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award
Our very own Cassie Lipine made such a good impression at the Community Garden where she volunteers for the Service Section of her Gold Duke Duke of Edinburgh’s Award that her efforts have been rewarded by being nominated for and successfully gaining “Volunteer of the Year” as part of the DofE’s Youth Week activities.
Cassie won a Macpac voucher and nationwide recognition for her amazing work which has involved setting up for events, guiding visitors around the gardens, pricking out seedlings and harvesting plants to make cosmetics and teas.
Well done Cassie! The Helen Anderson Trust is so proud of you!
April cleans up at the Special Olympics!
April Phillips Gardner had a stellar Special Olympics in the 2022 Special Olympics Summer Games held in December, winning Silver in the 200m and Gold in the 100m and the Long Jump.
Huge congratulations to April on an amazing achievement!
First Award Event at Helen Anderson Trust since Covid arrived.
At last! Covid has subsided to the point that we felt we could hold another Award Event to catch up on all of our clients that have completed Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Awards and Award Sections plus our very own Helen Anderson Trust Believe and Achieve Awards.
These two Award programmes are essentially the same but the Helen Anderson Trust Believe and Achieve Awards are for those over 25 as that is the maximum age for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award.
11 of our amazing clients turned up and we presented a total of 20 certificates with 3 of our guys taking home their Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards all in one hit!
We are all caught up now and primed for their advancement to the next Award level and signing up some new participants both from within the Trust and externally because we are now an Open Award Centre for both the Duke of Edinburgh and Believe and Achieve Award programmes and not restricting our intake to disability participants.
It was a great way to start the year, full of joy and happiness. Thanks to our staff crew for putting it all together including the catering and special thanks to all our sponsors and supporters for making these life-changing activities possible.
