Volunteers will be recognized for their unnoticed contributions during the course of a weekend-long ceremony for King Charles’s coronation in May.
During this historic year of national celebration, the Royal Volunteer Service (RVS) will honor people who go above and above in their communities with the Coronation Champions Awards.
You may submit a nomination for a deserving volunteer who is 14 years old or older for the Queen Consort’s Coronation Champions Awards. On Sunday, April 2, the nomination period closes.
Preeti Shetty made the choice to volunteer at an over-60s lunch club after moving into a new house and wanted to meet people.
Six years later, she has taken up the role of Mill End Lunch Club coordinator in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, and sometimes she is assisted by her two daughters.
Many individuals live alone, and for others, this is the only contact they will have all day.
This is also the only hot meal they get during the week since some of them are no longer able to cook due to age and/or infirmity.
The community welcomed Mrs. Shetty, 44, in 2017. “I felt the best way to get to know the neighborhood and the community was through volunteering,” she recalls. “It was all rather new.”
She first volunteered every Thursday and is now in charge of planning the five programs per week and the four volunteers required each day.
Each weekday, up to 20 customers get a warm, filling dinner. When you take the time to listen, they have amazing tales to share with us. There are some real-world examples there,” she said.
The notion of giving rewards to volunteers in honor of the Coronation, said Mrs. Shetty, is fantastic. While it is a good way to commemorate their contribution to the community, many do this because they want to.
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