In 2008/09 BT Community Champions award winners gave a total of 27.6 years of volunteering in just twelve months.
2007 BT Chairman’s Award Winners
On Tuesday July 3 2007, BT's chairman Sir Christopher Bland presented the Chairman's Awards at the BT Tower in London.
Winners were selected in four categories – Community and Culture, Sport, Youth and Education, Development and Awareness. Fifteen BT Chairman's Awards and £23,000 were distributed at the ceremony.
Sir Christopher personally selected each category winner and Lorraine Reade from Youth for Unity, one of those winners, was presented with the Outstanding Achievement Award. Lorraine, a complex billing enquiries consultant from Liverpool was awarded £5,000 for her work with her group that engages young people in worldwide peace projects. Lorraine dedicates more than 60 hours of volunteering to the group each month and has been involved with the group for 18 years.
Lorraine said: "When I first became a youth leader with Youth for Unity I had no idea that it would become such a major part of my life. To have my hard work over the years recognised by my employer makes me really proud and I am honoured to have won above all the other hundreds of entries from across the company."
The category winners were:
COMMUNITY AND CULTURE Winner: Sally Wilson, Metheringham Amateur Dramatics Runner Up: Mark Smith, RNLI Brighton Runner Up: Roger Bennett, Buxton Mountain Rescue Team Highly Commended: Nigel Pinchbeck, Catwalkers of Barton
SPORT Winner: Ronald Smith, Evergreen Football Club Runner Up: Nick Brooks, Beccehamian R.F.C. Runner Up: William Taylor, Ford Judo Club
YOUTH Winner: Lorraine Reade, Youth for Unity Runner Up: Michael Dixon, Cardiff Sea Cadets Runner Up: Alan Retallack, St. Keverne Youth Band
EDUCATION, DEVELOPMENT AND AWARENESS Winner: Steve Packer, Woodbridge Township Ambulance and Rescue Squad Runner Up: James Smart, Bedlinog Division St John Ambulance Runner Up: Harsukh Halai, Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community (UK) Highly Commended: Claire Colhoun, Glasgow Friends of Disabled
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Winner: Lorraine Reade, Youth for Unity
2007 was the first time a BT employee from abroad was recognised. Steve Packer, who works for Global Services in New Jersey U.S.A. volunteers at the Woodridge Township Ambulance and Rescue Squad and won the Education, Development and Awareness category.
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