Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for Pendle Fair Share Trust Group
Posted on Thu 21 July 2011
Thomas Street Bowling Club received Fair Share Trust funding to organise, promote and develop Crown Green Bowling to all.
Between August 2008 and August 2010 the group received three payments totalling £8,532. Children from local primary schools attend sessions to learn the rules and etiquette of the game, and benefit from fresh air and exercise. The sessions are particularly appealing to the children who don't make it into the football/netball team. The group has been really successful in attracting new members from ethnic minority groups and the Saturday morning 'lads and dads' sessions have proved very popular.
The group won the Community Club Award for Pendle in October 2010 and then went on to win the Lancashire Sports Awards Community Club Award in December. In June 2011 the group was awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service (the MBE for the voluntary sector) and representatives went to Buckingham Palace in July to receive their award.
This group of volunteers have brought fun, friendship, learning and community interaction between people of all ages and diversity and as they said they could not have done it without Fair Share Trust funding.
The photo shows 15 members of the group being presented with the award by Lord Shuttleworth, the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
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