The 2025 Community Awards
It is that time of year when we ask for nominations for the Annual
Community Awards. This year we would like your nominations for:
Community Award: recognising an individual or voluntary groups, who have made a positive contribution to the village. This could range from organising a community event, improving facilities for a neighbourhood, supporting a charity in their own time or helping an individual.
Youth Community Award: recognising a young person or group of young people aged 18 or under, who have made a positive contribution to the local community.
All nominees must reside or work within the Parish of Welton.
The closing date for nominations is the 30th April 2025, so if you know of anyone, who deserves recognition for the unpaid or voluntary work they do for the benefit of our community, please put their names forward. Just drop a line into the Parish Office at 7 Lincoln Road (next to the Paper Shop) or e-mail (clerk@welton-by-lincoln-pc.gov.uk). The awards will be presented at the Annual Parish Meeting in May.
Cllr Mrs Marlene Chapman
Chairman, Heritage & Events Committee
The 2024 Community Award Recipients
Mike Cosford
The role of churchwarden is vital to the life of the parish church, without which the church could not function.
The duties of the churchwarden are significant, they are charged with ‘encouraging parishioners in the practice of their faith’ and ‘promoting unity and peace amongst them’. They are responsible for the maintenance and upkeep up of the church building and the churchyard; also for the safekeeping of the property of the church.
Mike has also, for a number of years now, acted as the vice-chair of the Parochial Church Council (PCC), the governing body of the parish church, convening and often chairing meetings, to ensure that the lifeblood of church activities is maintained. In the absence of a full-time stipendiary priest since July 2023, that role has become even more important, and Mike has stepped up to the mark to keep things on track. If that were not enough, in the absence of another willing volunteer, Mike has also acted as de facto PCC secretary, a further vitally important role and a legal requirement; one which he has only just relinquished.
Mike has, for many years, made an enormous contribution to the life of not only St Mary’s church, but also the wider village. A quiet achiever, he just gets on with whatever needs to be done, largely unsung until now.
Avril Golding
She has been a volunteer at the library for many years and since retiring has taken a lead role in devising and delivering craft events for children. In addition she designed the scarecrow for the library which was exhibited as part of the Welton St Mary’s School Friends event.
Avril has made a real difference since taking on the craft events and their popularity continues to grow and with it, the use of the library.
The 2023 Community Awards
A Certificate of Appreciation was presented to Alison Hemsley for her fund raising work for the Friends of St Mary's Primary Academy as Chairman over the past 8 years.
The 2022 Community Awards
The Community Award was presented jointly to Graham
Nicholls and Don Chapman
Certificate of Appreciation was presented to Terry Peachman
Group Recognition Award was awarded to the Welton Larder, Welton Pantomime Group & Welton Village Hall Trust Committee