Jenna Johnson was awarded the Middlesbrough Gazette Youth Worker of the Year award and Cheryl Dixon was runner up in the Community Volunteer of the Year Award.
Both Jenna (pictured right) and Cheryl were nominated for the Awards by the Revd Lyn Kenny, Assistant curate at Holy Trinity North Ormesby. Lyn said, “Jenna is a brilliant children's worker and has done great work in her six years at Holy Trinity North Ormesby. As well as three after school clubs she has planned, organised and run residential events, holiday clubs and has built fantastic relationships with the local schools. She has built up a wonderful crew of volunteers (who she calls voluncheers) who have recently won awards themselves. Jenna leaves Holy Trinity on 19 December to start a new job in the New Year as an assistant at Kings Academy, Middlesbrough, assisting hearing impaired children. What nicer way to go out than on such a great high!
“Cheryl is a well-known community volunteer who does so much work at Holy Trinity. Cheryl is the mainstay behind the community garden on the church land - she does most of the planning and carries out the majority of the work with her team of local volunteers. She also assists at the Guide Unit in the Trinity Hall and at the Foodbank as well as Tots Praise and Play and the family Drop In, to name but a few! There is no doubt in my mind that the centre, and some areas of church work, could not function as it does without her stalwart efforts and I felt that her contribution should be acknowledged and affirmed.”
Congratulations to both Jenna and Cheryl! You can read more about the awards on The Gazette’s website here and here.