Recognition for our work

Our group and several of our members individually have been nominated and received awards for helping in the local community.

The Queen's Golden Jubilee Award.

Barnet RSVP as a group was awarded The Queen's Golden Jubilee Award for voluntary service by groups in the Community in June 2003. Only two hundered of these awards were made throughout the UK and we are very proud of this honour.

Investors in People

In 2003 CSV RSVP - the organisation of which the Barnet branch is a part - received the Investors in People award.

Mayor's Award

The Regional Co-ordinator of Barnet RSVP (Bill Ibbotson) received an award from the Mayor of London in July 2002 for “Making an Outstanding Contribution to Life in London”, and again in July 2004 and 2005.

Finchley Memorial Hospital

One of the stroke wards was awarded a National Beacon Award of Excellence and we are very proud that the contribution of RSVP is recorded on that award.

 

Three RSVP members receive awards for Year of the Volunteer

The closing of the year of the volunteer was marked by an awards ceremony presided by the Lord Mayor of the City of London at the Guildhall on the 5th January 1006. Special medals for the occasion were struck by The Royal Mint and presented to 200 volunteers in london who had been nominated by the public and selected by the national awards committee.

     Bill ibbotson, Pam Cox and Peter Hewitt were the three members of Barnet RSVP who were thrilled to receive these honours. RSVP has over 450 members who are helping everywhere in the borough and is run by Bill and Pam. Apart from running the group Bill organises a group of 50 volunteers who give free meals to people who are living on the streets, are homeless orunable to cope with life. They provide meals from council premises at 1 Friern Park every Sunday and bank holiday when every other facility is closed. They regularly feed about 40 clients.

  Pam also organises regular outings for the housebound, organises and participates in running a stroke club and is heavily involved in befriending people who are old, isolated and vulnerable and arranging outings and get-togethers for them.

   Peter Hewitt is permanently confined to a wheel chair and amongst his other activities spends two full days each week as an RSVP Organiser at Finchley Memorial Hospital where we have about 40 volunteers in a partnership project with the hospital management looking after the social needs of the patients