It’s been a busy week for nominations in the Love Barrow Awards, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have room for more – you have until November 8th to get them in, so head over to the nominations section of the site if you know of someone worthy of a nomination, it’s a great way to say “Thank You”.
As I’ve gotten a bit behind with blog posts, I’ve decided to run with a weekend summary this week and give you a glimpse of some of the nominations, maybe it could inspire to think of other worthy nominees?
Here’s the first weekend summary, look out more over the next day or two….
Firstly we have a couple of Sports Volunteer Category nominees – Paul Kell and Dave Farrish.
Starting with Dave, he has shadowed his partner, Sonja Foster, as a Run Leader for both Parkside Panthers and Duddon Dragons for many years now and has been a stalwart volunteer at Barrow parkrun from the very beginning. Dave is there before anyone else every Saturday to help set out the parkrun course for the hundreds who take part.
Dave is committed to encouraging and helping people to get fit whatever their age or level of fitness. He shows understanding and is caring because he been through the process himself and he can relate to his own personal experiences of being unfit to being able to run a 10k race and in the process of it all losing weight, feeling positive, happier and becoming healthier.
He is selfless and gives up his own personal free time to help others throughout the year for no other reason than the satisfaction he gains from seeing other people succeed.
Top effort Dave!
Onto Paul – Paul is a well known face on the local junior football scene – having been involved for over ten years now. Manager, coach, ref, linesman, pitch marker-off, kit washer, taxi-driver, DIY man, you name it, he’s done it!
Earlier this year Paul was instrumental in setting up a new Junior section at Barrow Wanderers football club – a FULL junior section, covering all the age ranges – in total an amazing EIGHT TEAMS!
This provides a footballing opportunity for around 120 local kids! Paul has used his persuasive skills to negotiate sponsors for kits too!
One of the most comprehensive nomination forms we’ve ever seen tells pretty much of Paul’s life story in supporting kids football, way to much to feature in this blog post, but it will all be read and digested by the judges when nominations close.
Well done to both Paul and Dave.