Success for Shropshire with eight charities honoured with the King’s Award for Voluntary Service

His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Anna Turner JP is delighted that eight Shropshire organisations have been awarded the King’s Award for Voluntary Service. 

The Shropshire groups honoured with the award are:

The Cavalier Centre

Riding for the Disabled and personal development programmesfor improved wellbeing through horses

Church and Chetwynd Aston Village Hall

A Community Hub benefiting the local and wider area, for all ages, backgrounds and capabilities

Clun Valley Good Neighbours Scheme

Befriending and supporting vulnerable, isolated and lonely people in the community

Home-Start Telford and Wrekin

Family support charity improving health and wellbeing of families with young children in Telford

Shropshire Child Contact Centres

Providing safe space for children to have a relationship with both parents following separation

Ludlow Cancer Support Group

Offering safe, supportive space for sufferers, family and the bereaved to meet, socialise and laugh

South Shropshire Engineering Ambassadors

Inspiring the interest and ambitions of young people towards engineering

Telford Crisis Support

Providing the community with basic essentials ensuring no one needs to go without

The Lord-Lieutenant, Mrs Anna Turner JP said, “I am delighted that eight Shropshire groups have been awarded the King’s Award for Voluntary Service this year. This prestigious award is richly deserved by each of the groups, who have made a real difference to so many people in the county of Shropshire.”

Across Shropshire there are many such wonderful organisations doing great things in the community, and the Lord-Lieutenant is very keen to encourage applications for KAVS and ensure that as many Shropshire organisations as possible are deservedly recognised for their endeavours. To find out more on how to apply please click here