Where would we be without our Jolly Vollys?
This year our volunteers have helped us serve delicious and healthy lunches, wash up, chat to our guests and help them to join in with our creative activities, check the online monthly newsletter before we send it out to you (thanks dad!), get our shiny new polytunnel ready for its open day, keep our productive allotment going all year round, train in First Aid and Safeguarding and notice if someone is unwell or things aren’t quite right.
Without the Jolly Volly mighty team of 26 highly skilled people, we certainly couldn’t run any of our Jolly Days to the high standard we know and love and keep everyone safe at the same time.
Which is why I decided to nominate each and every one of them for the Volunteer Team of the Year award. On Friday, 3rd October, I travelled to Dorchester with Jan Robson, Pat Stansby and Nonny Harlow who volunteer at our Jolly Museum Group in Wimborne. They were there to represent the whole team. We enjoyed a delicious ploughman’s supper and drinks whilst clapping and cheering all the other inspiring people in the room. And then, finally, it was the turn of our team to have their amazing work recognised. A proud moment for us all. Without them we couldn’t support the over 150 people per month that we do. Look out for our annual evaluation coming soon and find out more about what these amazing people get up to and how it helps our guests and their families – the numbers are interpreted and put into brilliant graphs and maps by the amazing Lydia Smith who works full time for the ONS, but has given a sizeable chunk of her spare time to help us to understand and present our data.
Dear Jolly Vollys, thank you all and we wouldn’t be Jolly without you!
