Award win for Armed Forces Covenant team volunteers for outreach work

Shropshire Council’s Armed Forces Covenant team of volunteers have won an award for their health and wellbeing outreach work with veterans treated at Headley Court in the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH), Gobowen.

The team, which runs the Armed Forces outreach programme, is based in the Veterans Hub at the centre, and has just been recognised in the Oswestry Life’s Local Hero Awards 2023, scooping the volunteer of the year award.

Lady Kenyon, lar left, with the award-winning team of volunteers and Sarah Kerr, Shropshire Council Armed Forces Covenant outreach worker, far right

Ian Nellins, Shropshire Council’s deputy Leader, and Armed Forces champion, said:-

“It is a great honour for the volunteers to be recognised locally for their invaluable help and support for the Armed Forces community who come through the doors at Headley Court. I know their work, and that of our Armed Forces Covenant team, is valued by all of us who are linked to the service, and this demonstrates that the effects of their work reaches far beyond.”

Oswestry Life’s Local Hero Awards, which are in their fourth year, are described as “an opportunity to highlight those who have been giving it their all and working away, perhaps a little too quietly, but who deserve some extra special recognition for their hard work and behaviour”.

The award was presented to the volunteers by Lady Kenyon, president of the RJAH League of Friends, who sponsored the award.