The Parks Trust celebrates volunteers contribution with Annual Awards event

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    The Parks Trust celebrated the contribution from their volunteers with the Annual Volunteer Awards event on Friday 25th February.

    The Parks Trust is an independent charity that cares for over 6,000 acres of parkland and green space in Milton Keynes.

    Across the organisation there are a diverse range of roles including landscape management, finance, property management, marketing, events and outdoor learning as well as roles based at Willen Lake.

    The charity is supported by 229 volunteers who overall completed around 6,329 volunteer hours last year.

    The Parks Trust's Volunteers of the Year for 2021 were named as David Ollier and Steve Thomason.

    Both David and Steve have been dedicated practical conservation volunteers and have diligently covered rangering in Campbell Park, amassing over 170 volunteer hours in 2021 between them.

    Other award winners include Community Engagement Volunteer of the Year, Deborah Cooper, for her work on the Textiles project at Great Linford; Outdoor Learning Volunteer of the Year, Pamela Loose, for her support of the Outdoor Learning team during 2021; Warden of the Year, Colin Kempster, or being a very active Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve Warden; Newcomer of the Year, Paz Prierto Martin, for getting stuck in and trying lots of different volunteering roles and tasks; Wildlife Surveyor of the Year, Sue Bunker.

    Andy Palmer, who has been volunteering since 2010 as a Volunteer Ranger for Waterhall Park and Dudley James, who has been volunteering with the Trust for over 20 years, both received Long-service Awards.

    A spokesperson for The Parks Trust said: "Congratulations to all our award winners and huge thank you to all our volunteers for all they do for us in all weathers, every day of the year."

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