Shropshire Lord Lieutenant holds a garden party for Shropshire Volunteers.

Volunteers were recognised in a lovely garden party in Wellington, organised by Lord Lieutenant Anna Turner.

Transcript

00:00Denzel, introduce yourself for me and tell us what you do.

00:02My name's Denzel, Denzel Martin. I'm the landlord at the Unicorn Inn in Little Dorley.

00:10What brings you to the garden party this year?

00:13We've been invited.

00:14Why do you think you've been invited?

00:17Two of our local parish councillors invited us, nominated us, for the work that we've done in Little Dorley for charities.

00:23We've been at the Unicorn since August 23, and we've been fundraising ever since we got there, basically.

00:33We host a monthly quiz every month. Whoever wins the quiz gets to choose a charity.

00:38Some of them are big national charities of breast cancer.

00:42Others are tiny little charities.

00:45A young lady in the community couldn't get treatment on the NHS, so she had to go to Germany.

00:52She had to raise £80,000, so we've helped them.

00:56We've done a lot of mental health charities, men's mental health.

01:00We've recently done a lot of work for the Samaritans.

01:04It's just something that bonds, I think, the community together.

01:08And your wife just told us that you've raised £28,000 in 20 months?

01:13Yes. I'm not saying £28,000 on the nose, but yeah, it's about £28,000 raised.

01:19That's all from... It's the community that's raised it, not us.

01:24People say, we've made it happen, which, yeah, we probably did, but it's the community that's done amazingly.

01:32And feeling good about being recognised at the building right?

01:35It's just, yeah, it's a lovely thing that we've done for us today.

01:39Lovely people that do things in the church, they do things in the community, just endless.

01:48I'm so pleased to just offer a little smidgen, a token of thanks to them, and just a little bit of gratitude for what they do.

01:57We're here with Ruby. Hello, Ruby.

01:59Hi.

01:59And what's your last name?

02:01Sheffield.

02:02Ruby Sheffield.

02:03And just fill us in, why is it you've been invited to Ruby? You make cards, don't you?

02:07Yeah, I make crafts and cards, and I go off to local shopping centres, and they'll sell them.

02:13And so far, I've raised £11,131 for the Royal British Legion.

02:17Awesome work. Well done. That's a lot of cards. Well done, young lady. Enjoy your day.