Abergele surgery today, with a number of heavy appointments.
After it was over, I looked in at a coffee morning organised in aid of the maxillofacial unit at Glan Clwyd hospital. The event was packed out and raised over £540 in the space of just a couple of hours.
The extraordinary thing about these events is that they are always organised by a core element of precisely the same people. They support all the good causes in the community and give hours of their time without the expectation of reward, or even recognition.
When people talk of “unsung heroes”, these are the sort of individuals they should have in mind. They are to be found the length and breadth of the country, organising raffles, street collections, coffee mornings and bring and buys; they are the backbone of our communities and we simply couldn’t function without them.
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November 18, 2009 at 7:49 pm
In full agreement with this, these individuals are vital to the future of this nation. Volunteers are crucial to community development and cohesion (and always have been), not consultants and quangos.