{"id":6577,"date":"2020-10-05T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/local-charity-celebrates-volunteer-awards\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:55:33","slug":"local-charity-celebrates-volunteer-awards","status":"publish","type":"good-news","link":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/good-news\/local-charity-celebrates-volunteer-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Local charity celebrates volunteer awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sightsupport.org\/\">Sight Support HEY<\/a> is delighted that four of the charity's volunteers have been <a>shortlisted for prestigious regional award<\/a>s in recognition of their longstanding support of local people with sight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Massam and Robin Russell have both been nominated in the Trustee category, Elaine Cornforth in the Fundraiser category and Chris Walker in the Behind the Scenes category of the regional Proud to BEE a Volunteer Awards organised by the HEY SMILE Foundation and partners; Nisa Local\u2019s charity Making a Difference Locally and East Riding of Yorkshire Council.<\/p>\n<p>Full details of the nominees can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sightsupport.org\/about-us\/news\/proud-to-bee-a-volunteer-awards-2020\">Sight Support HEY's website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Ackroyd, Chief Executive of Sight Support HEY says, \u201cWe are incredibly lucky to have people like Chris, Elaine, Robin and Ann helping us to guide, deliver, and raise funds for, our support services which are helping to change lives of thousands of local people with sight loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The winners of the Volunteer of the Year awards will be announced at a special event which will take place virtually via live stream, on 8th October at 6pm and will be able to watch and cheer on the nominees via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heysmilefoundation\/\">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCydPLhhgn6vEJNnysMhZjbg\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ajguk\/\">Angela Gregory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sight Support HEY is delighted that four of the charity's volunteers have been shortlisted for prestigious regional awards in recognition of their longstanding support of local","protected":false},"author":12312952,"featured_media":6578,"template":"","good_news_category":[11],"class_list":["post-6577","good-news","type-good-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","good_news_category-charity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/good-news\/6577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/good-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/good-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/good-news\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/good-news\/6577\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"good_news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/good_news_category?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}