Spirit of Corby 2023

Northants Telegraph

Some of the award winners from the Spirit of Corby awards 2023

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00:00 It's a real honour, but it's not all spoken for, the volunteers at Manna.

00:13 As I say, we do work in all weathers, we work outside and it's just lovely to win something

00:20 to show for it, sort of thing.

00:22 But as I say, it's not just Manna volunteers, it's all animal volunteers.

00:27 Oh my god, I am over the moon for one.

00:31 I just do what I do day in day out for the kids and just make sure that they have somewhere

00:38 safe to go and obviously help the children who are obviously not as fortunate as others

00:44 and yeah, it really does someone's for them, not for me.

00:48 It feels absolutely fantastic, as I've said in my speech, to serve in your own hometown

00:54 for over a decade for the young people of Corby, it's a real true heartwarming honour

00:59 to do so and to be recognised for that, to work with those learners with vulnerabilities

01:04 and to serve and champion them, it's a real big opportunity that I feel grateful for.

01:11 It's exceptional, we didn't expect it at all.

01:14 All the nominations have done a fantastic job, but we're so grateful for what we do.

01:18 If it wasn't for the community and all the donations and all the support, we wouldn't

01:22 be able to do what we do, which is going out and saving lives and giving that primary care

01:26 before the ambulance can arrive.

01:28 Actually, it is actually quite amazing and I think that this award is actually going

01:32 to be so good so then the students and the cadets and everyone in there can actually

01:37 be proud of what we have done because sometimes we don't actually realise that they don't

01:46 see the power of actually being part of all the emergency services, the police, the ambulance

01:52 and the fire, they've been so, so, so helpful in everything and actually showing the skills

01:58 to all of the cadets and even if they don't join in any emergency services, at least they

02:04 get the knowledge of actually doing it and I'm really proud of all of them and everyone.

02:09 It's absolutely amazing, like I said, raising money for such big charities and stuff like

02:19 that, that mean something close to mine and my family's heart.

02:23 My dad being ex-Navy and my brother in the Royal Marines Band Service, I'm literally

02:30 speechless, so it is a massive thing.

02:34 I was surprised just to be nominated really, I was unsure whether I was deserved of it

02:39 to be honest, even a nomination.

02:41 As I say, it's something I've been doing for a long time, it's something that I'm

02:46 just really passionate about and I've had a lot of help locally from the council funding

02:52 my projects and things like that and I've always been really business minded but always

02:57 wanted to do it in a not-for-profit and charitable kind of way so this is just amazing.

03:03 I don't even know what to say, I'm like proper blown away actually.

03:07 It's recognition of the park itself, because it's been developed over the last few years,

03:13 we've now got yoga for people to come and do it on a regular basis and we also have

03:19 old picnics for handicapped people who have a nice place to come and sit down and enjoy

03:25 the garden and we hope to build that further going forward.

03:29 It feels absolutely amazing to have won, it's been such hard work to get here and thank

03:34 you to everybody who's supported us, friends, family, colleagues, everybody who's helped

03:38 us along the journey.

03:39 So a big thank you, big thank you.

03:41 Thank you very much.

03:42 It's an honour, thank you.

03:43 I had to be coaxed into coming down here because for me personally whilst I steer the ship

03:49 that is the charity boat, it's the crew that make it happen and the crew is the good people

03:54 of Corby and the good people of Corby, they put that in their pocket every time.

03:59 We do the Santa Walk, they sponsor people that are walking, put up signed memorabilia,

04:03 they bid on it, they buy, they do bonus for the raffles, whatever it is.

04:07 So I'm accepting it on behalf of them guys.

04:11 This is a huge encouragement for us and this year is a special year for Corby Lions, we

04:18 are celebrating our 50th year so this recognition is encouraging to serve the community for

04:26 the next 50 years so we are so excited about this thing.

04:30 Well it's quite a surprise actually isn't it?

04:32 It's a wonderful surprise.

04:34 Yeah, really really shocked but really really pleased because we've won awards in the past

04:39 but I think because we were 50 years and I think now we're over the 50 year hurdle, it's

04:46 never taken for granted that you would win these sort of things and we touch so many

04:50 people's children in Corby throughout the years that we've been teaching that it doesn't

04:55 go unnoticed and it's lovely that we've won.

04:59 It is really great.

05:00 I really appreciate it.

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