Queens Award for Voluntary Service Speech – Beverley Gilbert
QUEENS AWARD FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Thank you to the Lord Lieutenant or Warwickshire for your kind words and presentation of such a wonderful award. If you had said 7 years ago when I was sitting in a corner of my bedroom planning Cohort 4 that we would be presented with such an honour, I would have said you were being fanciful. Thank you. Some acknowledgements to make. Thanks to the Landmark Trust and in particular to Caroline Stanford, Historian and Head of Engagement for enabling us to hold this event at Astley Castle, such beautiful surroundings (flowers) Thank you Becca Turner, Davina Key and Jazmin Lyons for making the nomination, you are wonderful to do so. We wouldn’t be…