{"id":12237,"date":"2022-05-27T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2022-05-27T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:07:08","slug":"volunteer-awards-2022-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/volunteer-awards-2022-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Awards 2022 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Volunteer-Award-Winners-16.5.22-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Volunteer-Award-Winners-16.5.22-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Volunteer-Award-Winners-16.5.22-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photograph<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0Recipients of the Bay of Colwyn Volunteer of the Year Awards 2022 with the newly elected Mayor, Cllr Colin Matthews, Town Clerk Mrs Tina Earley, Mayor\u2019s Consort Cllr Chris Hughes and Committee Members Cllr Abdul Khan (Chair) and Kasia Kwicien (CVSC)<\/p>\n<p>The Bay of Colwyn Town Council is delighted to announce the winners of the Bay of Colwyn Volunteer of the Year Awards for 2022. \u00a0The nominations were considered by the Volunteer Awards Committee, which includes representatives from the local community and from Community and Voluntary Support Conwy (CVSC). \u00a0Award recipients were invited to the Town Hall on Monday 16<sup>th<\/sup> May, with the winners of each category being presented with a slate plaque and certificate by the Town Mayor, Cllr Colin Matthews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners of the Bay of Colwyn Volunteer Awards 2022 are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adult (25-64 yrs): \u00a0Beccy Forbes<\/li>\n<li>Adult (65+): \u00a0Joseph Coyne<\/li>\n<li>Young Person: \u00a0Maddie Brown<\/li>\n<li>Group: \u00a0Bayside Radio Volunteers<\/li>\n<li>Trustee:\u00a0 Carys Roberts<\/li>\n<li>John Davies Memorial Award for Volunteering:\u00a0 Parkway Coffee Club Volunteers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Highly Commended certificates were also presented to Simon Wynne and Isak Donkin.<\/p>\n<p>Town Mayor, Cllr Colin Matthews, said; \u201c<em>As one of my very first duties as Town Mayor for the Bay of Colwyn, I was delighted to have been asked to present the awards for the eleventh Annual Bay of Colwyn Volunteer of the Year Awards.\u00a0 During my year as Mayor, I am looking forward to having the opportunity to visit a number of local clubs, voluntary groups and other organisations and witness first-hand the amount of time and effort members of our community are prepared to give to voluntary causes, and to those organisations that are busy helping and supporting others in our community\u201d.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Later this year, the Bay of Colwyn Town Council will be inviting nominations for its Volunteer of the Year Awards for 2022\/23.\u00a0 There are seven categories for nomination:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Young Person (under 25 years), or group of young people<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Adult (25-64)<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Adult (65 and over)<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Green Volunteer or group<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Trustee<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Other Groups (two or more individuals, whether informal or formally constituted)<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Additional Category (for any that may not meet the criteria for the other six categories)<\/p>\n<p>Town Clerk, Tina Earley, states: <em>\u201cWe are now in the eleventh year of our Volunteer Awards, which were introduced to recognise the valued contribution of our many local volunteers and voluntary groups, who show selflessness, devotion and service to the local community and are an inspiration to others.\u00a0 This is our annual opportunity to say \u201cthank you\u201d and I would urge you all to think about the other unsung heroes in your community and consider nominating someone you know for next year\u2019s awards\u201d. <\/em>The deadline for receipt of nominations for our next awards is<strong> 31<sup>st<\/sup> January 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nomination forms and guidelines will be available on-line at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\">www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk<\/a> or by e-mail request to: <a href=\"mailto:info@colwyn-tc.gov.uk\">info@colwyn-tc.gov.uk<\/a>.\u00a0 For further information:\u00a0 Tina Earley, Town Clerk, Bay of Colwyn Town Council, <a href=\"mailto:clerk@colwyn-tc.gov.uk\">clerk@colwyn-tc.gov.uk<\/a>\u00a0 01492 532248<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photograph:\u00a0 \u00a0Recipients of the Bay of Colwyn Volunteer of the Year Awards 2022 with the newly elected Mayor, Cllr Colin Matthews, Town Clerk Mrs Tina Earley, Mayor\u2019s Consort Cllr Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12242,"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions\/12242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colwyn-tc.gov.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}