Drum roll please….
Our volunteer hours and stats for the year September 2013 to August 2014 were announced on Saturday, during our AGM. The results are always impressive – lots of hard work translates into a huge number of volunteer hours for the National Trust.
Figures are from 1st Sept 2013 to 31st Aug 2014:
- total volunteer hours 3,068.75
- 73 people volunteered with the group
- we arranged 66 workdays at 15 different National Trust properties
- average number of volunteers per workday 9
Where did we spend our time? The top 3 sites measured by hours worked are as follows:
- Dudmaston (gardens and woodland)
- Wenlock Edge
- Morville Hall
Matt Hinton topped the hours chart again this year with 310.75hours. He isn’t a man, he’s a machine! A volunteering machine! Well done Matt.
We also have a “top 100”. This lists the total hours volunteered by the top 100 group members since the group began in 1980. Just for fun, have a guess at how many hours the group have worked in total (answer at the end of this post).
Congratulations to our volunteers who earned National Trust Long Service Awards during this past year.
20 year award – Peter Orme
15 year award –Helen Payne, Ann Dalgleish
10 year award – Tom Freeland, Jen Davison, Laura Harrison, Sheila Smallwood, Rachel Freeland, Neil Semple
5 year award – Gill Amias, Ben Nash, Jackie Semple, Avril Simpson
They will receive their awards at a special event later this year.
A big thank you to all who contributed volunteer hours and to those who do committee work and workday leading, ensuring that the group continues to flourish.
If you’d like to add a few volunteer hours to next year’s total, why not join us for a workday? Our current list of workdays can be found on our EVENTS page. Pick a day and CONTACT US. Let’s make the coming year a bigger and better success.
(answer: 58,638 hours – wow!)
Shropshire and Staffordshire National Trust Volunteers 