Help the Hospices was the charity benefiting from the gala preview of the show held that evening. During the day this special event celebrated and publicised the success of the awards scheme.
Award winners
Millenium Commissioner Floella Benjamin presented certificates to seven of our award-winning volunteers (seen left to right in the photograph on this page):
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Doug Gregory who is doing a gardening project at Cotswold Care Hospice
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Prudence Furse-Roberts who is doing manual lymph drainage at Florence Nightingale House
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Judy Mackie working with Doug on the garden project at Cotswold Care
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Arthur Mash who is working on a gardening project at The Peace Hospice
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Anne Bartholomew who works in bereavement counselling at Trinity Hospice
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Gill Hawkins works in complementary therapy at Marie Curie Caterham
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Catherine Le Roy works in a children's bereavement project at St Peter's in Bristol, who also won the Marie Curie Nurse of the Year Award for England for her paid job as a nurse of terminally ill patients in their own home.
Catherine Le Roy also won the Marie Curie Nurse of the Year Award for England for her paid job as a nurse of terminally ill patients in their own home.
All of our award winners were invited to a more informal celebration day on Saturday 7 July at the Flower Show.
