Volunteer Gardeners – Unsung Hero Awards

Nomination

Award Category:

Volunteer of the year

Individual or Team Nomination?

Team

Qualifying Qualities

In these challenging times, nominators were asked to show how the nominee had demonstrated the following qualities:

Exceptional work ethic - going above and beyond their job description, especially in the past 12 months.
Outstanding achievement/s in work or outside of the organisation where relevant.
Drive for innovation and proactive leadership in these challenging times.
High level of interpersonal skills, such as kindness, empathy, loyalty and thoughtfulness to staff and patients.
A resilience considering Covid to their role and to the health and wellbeing of their colleagues.

Nominators Answer

Nominee's story :

THANK-YOU VOLUNTEER GARDENERS For creating beautiful spaces for us all to enjoy, all year round Our Volunteer Gardeners are a well established team who have come together through their love of all things gardening! With a collective encyclopaedic knowledge which would do any botanist proud, they truly are a force to be reckoned with when it comes to knowing your weeds from your wisterias Coming from all walks of life the team is made up of ex-consultants, golf groundsmen, pa’s to CEO’s, midwives, young mums to name a few and come rain or shine they can always be found in the Hospital gardens on a Tuesday morning! The Volunteer Gardeners felt fortunate during the beginning of lockdown to be able to continue their work in the gardens as being outside was considered a safe place, and they have worked tirelessly to keep all of the outside spaces a colourful and restful space for staff, patients and visitors to the Hospital to enjoy I wanted to give the Volunteer Gardeners a special mention this month as they work so hard planting, weeding, painting, sweeping, chopping, cutting, dead-heading, watering, feeding, nurturing and smiling and I think you’ll all agree, they do a superb job for us all! Thank-You One and All! xxx