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2006 Winners

Winners of the Queen's Award announced on 2 June 2006

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48th Ipswich Brownies
Offers fun and challenging activities for girls aged 7-10.


ACCORD Hospice
Provides care to patients and their families both within the hospice and in the community.

Accuro
To provide a range of services for children and adults with a disability.

Action for Stannington
Develops and provides schemes for the conservation and protection of the environment, encouraging residents to look after their neighbourhood.

Aik Saath
Promote peace and harmony through the teaching of conflict resolution skills.

Amazon Young Women's Project
Youth workers motivate and encourage group members to develop creative initiatives to tackle the issues of crime and public safety.

 

Back Door Music Project
Provides youth of the borough with opportunities to express, learn and achieve musical skills.

Barnardo's Newcastle Pyramid Scheme
Provides emotional health checks for all year 3-4 children, inviting 10 children to attend a Pyramid Club to help build confidence and self esteem.

The Beacon of Hope
Gives comfort and guaranteed practical action for people when they are ill or dying and for their families and carers.

Befriend a Child Scheme
Aims to relieve the suffering and distress, promote welfare and advance the education of children in Aberdeen.

Beverley Community Lift
Provides a transport service to increase the independence of old or disabled people, helping to combat loneliness and isolation.

The Bexhill Caring Community
To promote within Bexhill the welfare of those in need, hardship or distress, in particular, but not exclusively elderly persons in any manner deemed by law to be charitable.

Body Positive Dorset
A positive response support centre for all people living with or affected by HIV.

Braunstone Stars and Angels
Provides a community based activity for children from 4 years, to learn singing, voice training and performance.

Bulwell Credit Union Ltd
Provides basic financial services to people in the area, educating and encouraging people on low incomes in the wise use of money managements.

Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team
Search and Rescue team.

The Cambridgeshire Parliament
Supporting people with learning difficulties to become active citizens in their communities, representing others and developing themselves.

Cancer Link Aberdeen and North (CLAN)
Provides free information, support, education and complementary therapies together with a range of support services to anyone directly or indirectly affected by cancer.

Canterbury and District Recorder
Recording on audiotape the local news for the blind, visually handicapped and anyone unable to handle a newspaper.

The Chalke Valley Link Scheme
Contributes to the community well being by providing care, support and transport for those who may need it.

Chance UK
Works with primary school children who have behavioural difficulties, through matching them with adult volunteers.

Children with Special Needs Foundation
To care for children with special needs giving them self esteem and self importance.

Cricket Federation for People with Disabilities (CFPD)
To give any person with a disability the opportunity to participate in a regular team sport.

The Crowborough Vale Drama Group
A drama group to raise funds for distribution to local good causes.

Cuckmere Community Bus
To provide a bus service for villagers to get to towns for shopping etc.

 

The Deeping Men's Group
To raise funds to buy and loan out wheelchairs and other medical equipment free of charge within the Deepings area.

Disability Awareness Day
Promoting independence throughout life and work for disabled people and their families. 

Donna's Dream House
To provide free holidays in Blackpool for terminally ill children and their families at Donna's Dream House.

Down's Syndrome Association
Provides information, support and personal development to children and adults with Down’s syndrome, their families and members of the general public with an interest in the condition.

 

Earthworks
People of all abilities learning and working together with enjoyment, creating something valuable for the whole community.

Folkestone Migrant Support Group
To provide facilities for the relief of poverty and distress of refugees and asylum seekers and other migrants and their families.

Forest Fitness Centre
Provides exercise and health education for all members of the community.

Four Groves Community Association
Makes the area a safer place to live, increasing community spirit, improving the environment and improving health.

Friends for Friends 1:1 Club
Integrated club for people with learning disabilities and their volunteer friends.

Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
Relieves patients of the hospital who are sick, disabled, infirm or in need of assistance and generally support the work of the hospital.

Friends of Wombwell Cemetery
To preserve, enhance and improve the Wombwell Cemetery area in order to reduce the fear of crime and to make it a place of peace and reflection for bereaved persons.

 

Gatehouse of Fleet YMCA Drop in Centre
Provides a drop in centre for social and informal educational recreation used by local socially and rurally disadvantaged young people.

Gateway Wheelers
Provides suitable cycles, equipment and support to enable people with disabilities to cycle and to create opportunities for personal development.

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
Supporting detainees at Gatwick Airport through friendship information and discrimination awareness.

Glaven District Caring Committee
Provides extra care and comfort as well as medical and personal services to the elderly and frail of the twelve villages in the Glaven valley.

Gloucestershire Cloud 9
Organising holiday of a lifetime visits for children in Gloucestershire who have physical or chronic illnesses.

Gloucestershire County Association for the Blind
Promotes the relief of visually impaired people within Gloucestershire.

Grantham and District Talking Newspaper Association
Providing weekly news items for the visually impaired in Grantham.

The Guernsey Specials Gymnastics Club
The Guernsey Specials Gym Club provides opportunities for children and young people with a variety of special needs to do gymnastics.

Gwavas Residents Association
Provides facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for people in the area.

HEAL
A self-help and support service for adult survivors of childhood abuse.

Helford River Children's Sailing Trust
Provides opportunities for children to learning how to sail, gaining confidence and enjoyment of the sea.

Helping Hands
To provide a home comforts lending service of medical and other equipment to seriously ill residents in the local area.

Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team
Provides search, rescue and first aid facilities, encourages, promotes and trains young people in safe and proper outdoor activities.

Homecall
Recruits, selects, trains and supports volunteer visitors for a home visiting service which helps substantially visually impaired people to maintain their independence and relieves their social isolation.

Home-Start Stevenage
Offers support, friendship and practical help to families with young children in the families' own home.

Hormead Hares Football Club
Football club for young members of the community.

Hospice Care for Burnley and Pendle
Provides for the special needs of people with cancer or other  life-limiting illnesses, specifically providing palliative care for people in the area.

Hospice at Home Volunteers
We provide free care and support for people with life limiting illnesses on a weekly basis.

Interest Link Borders
Links adults with learning disabilities throughout the Scottish Borders one-to-one with compatible and trained volunteers so they can meet up on a regular basis to do activities of their choice in the community.

Inverclyde Family Contact Centre
Supports and promotes positive relationships between children and absent parents.

Jigsaw4u
Supports children and young people through loss and trauma whilst empowering them to have a voice in decision making about their own lives.

Just Us
Supports young people, providing a number of vital support roles to young people involved with Swansea Youth Offending Team.

Knowetop Community Farm Volunteers
To promote and advance knowledge in the fields of horticulture, agriculture, care of animals, recycling and other environmental issues.

Knowle West Media Centre
The project aims to use media as a tool to involve people in the regeneration of their communities, to build skills and create opportunities for participation on initiatives that promote social, cultural and economic development.

 

Learning Partnerships Literacy Volunteers
Raise the profile of literacy in the school and community, making learning fun and reading enjoyable.

Lincoln and District REMAP Panel
To relieve and rehabilitate disabled people, by the design and manufacture of specialised equipment (not commercially available) which is supplied free of charge to clients.  

Literacy Volunteers
Helps children who are finding reading difficult to overcome their problems and discover that reading can be fun.

LNBP at Braunston (London Narrow Boat Project)
Provides residential facilities on the Projects own boats to enable children, young people and the less able to enjoy the experience of canal boating on the inland waterways.

Longmynd Adventure Camp
An adventure camp for socially deprived and disadvantaged children and young people.

Ludlow Marches Skill-Building Project
Encourages the next generation of craftsman and artisans, working to educate young people in appreciating the value of craft skills

 

MARC
A social enterprise which provides advice and information to the community about a range of services.  It also offers training and education, and provides reused furniture and household goods to the general public.

Medway Towns Conservation Volunteers
To undertake environmental restoration and install public interest in the park.

Meals on Wheels Service (Jersey) Society
To deliver hot meals to those in need.

Moffat Mountain Rescue Team
Rescue service for people injured, immobilised, lost or in distress in the Moffat and surrounding areas.

The Murray Foundation
Provides support and counselling to patients affected by limb loss or limb absence.

National Phobics Society (NPS)
Provides a range of services across the country for people affected by anxiety disorders and related conditions.

Neath Port-Talbot Cancer Challenge Charity
Aims to buy life saving equipment for the cancer units in our local hospitals, raising money through a variety of initiatives including a choir.

Newent Association for the Disabled
Provides social and recreational activites for physically disabled people of all ages at Sheppard House, and dial-a-ride and shuttle transport services

Newtongrange Phoenix Club for the Disabled
Entertains and stimulates people who have learning difficulties to make them feel welcome and wanted.

Oasis
Provides a pleasant and welcoming place for young people of secondary school age. The premises are a safe and attractive alternative to hanging around on the streets and becoming involved in the drugs culture.

Open Country
Seeks to enable people with disabilities to access the countryside, providing information, advice and activities.

Oxford Friend Lesbian and Gay Helpline
Provide information, support and counselling on lesbian, gay, bisexual and related issues, to Oxfordshire and the surrounding area.

PACT (Patient Aid Caring Team)
Offers assistance and comfort to patients of Central Park Medical Centre, mainly working with people in bereavement or who are terminally ill.

Praxis Befriending Service
To provide friendship and support for those who are socially isolated by mental ill health.

Preston Panthers
Provides sport and recreation for young people with disabilities or impairment.

Ragamuffin's Children's Theatre
Bringing children and adults together in Torry and Aberdeen through community theatre events and acitivities.

Readycall
Helping elderly and vulnerable people in the Southern Derbyshire Dales to continue living independently at home, by providing practical support and social contact.

Rhyl Gateway Club
Providing a meeting place for people with learning difficulties living in the Rhyl area with social, recreational and educational activities

Riding for the Disabled Association, Isle of Man
Providing riding and carriage driving opportunities for people in the Isle of Man who have physical learning difficulties.

Riding for the Disabled Association (Coleraine and District)
Provides horse riding and driving opportunities for disabled persons - both physically and mentally handicapped people from the area.

Rochdale Connections Trust
Helps children or young people who are excluded from social and educational opportunities because of disaffection, exclusion, family or other problems.

 

Sailing for the Disabled
Provides sailing opportunities, both training and leisure, to people with disabilities of any form.

Sangam Association of Asian Women
Womens Association that provides information, advice and support to the local and adjoining borough community.

Sikh Nari Manch Women's Group
Aims to empower women in general, but Sikh in particular, through a broad mix of educational, social and recreational activities.

Silverdale First Responders
Provides an interim service between dialling 999 and the arrival of the ambulance service.

Shanklin Voluntary Youth and Community Centre
Provides activities for the youth and community of South Wight in an accessible, safe, secure and welcoming environment.

Shpresa Programme
To enable the Albanian speaking community in UK to settle and fully participate in society.

South Bucks RDA Group
To provide therapeutic, recreational, educational and sport riding opportunities for disabled people.

South Norfolk Youth Symphonic Band
To advance and encourage the education of children and young people between the ages of 8 and 23 years in the theory, practice and performance of music.

Southwater Community Police Office
Provides a highly visible, reassuring and valued link between the local community and the police.

Spelthorne Civic Pride Volunteers
Encourages residents to take an active part in improving their local environment and to show the residents the good effect they can have on their street, footpath, park and wild places.

St Paul's Family Meeting Place, Child Contact Centre
Gives children with divorced parents the opportunity to maintain contact with their families, meeting in a neutral and stress free environment.

Stonebridge Older Person's Forum
To advance the interests of people aged over 60 years in the Stonebridge area.

Sutton Seniors' Forum
Promotes the welfare and interest of Seniors in the London Borough of Sutton, providing a platform where matters of concern to Seniors can be raised.

Talbot House Support Centre
Giving practical advice, guidance and support to parents of children with special needs in Manchester.

TALK
Supporting people in Surrey with dysphasia difficulties through therapy and communication partnerships.

Talking with Hands
Enabling children and adults with hearing difficulties to visit the cinema to watch signed and subtitled films.

The Aintree Volunteer Scheme
Assisting with patient experience of hospital attendance in Aintree NHS hospitals.

The Gladiator Programme
Delivering physical activities through play and sports programmes in schools and communities in Greater Easterhouse and across Glasgow.

The Guernsey Women's Refuge
Offering emergency accommodation for women and children in Guernsey to escape physical or domestic violence.

The Heart of Kent Hospice
Supporting patients, families and staff in the hospice through physical, emotional, social and spiritual care.

The Holly Lodge Centre Volunteers
Providing opportunities for people of all abilities and ages to enjoy and learn about the natural environment and history of Richmond Park.

The Lakes Estate Summer Group
Serving the needs of Bletchley through social and educational family activities.

The Muirfield Group of Riding for the Disabled
Offering riding therapy to disabled people in and around East Lothian.

The Source
Providing a centre for young people in Aldershot for mentoring and social activities, reducing anti-social behaviour.

Suffolk Hearing Support Service
Provides routine maintenance of NHS hearing aids, on a one-to-one basis, either in people's homes or in an advice centre or hearing clinic around the county, offering support and running hearing clinics around the county.

The Sussex Snowdrop Trust
Supporting families of children in West Sussex diagnosed with life-threatening or terminal ilnesses.

Tain Gala Association
Brings the wider community together through the organising and staging of both large and small scale events and activities throughout the year.

Tipton Community Association
Organising events and services to the community.

WAMDSAD
Provides sports and recreational facilities and opportunities for physically and sensorial disabled people.

Whale Hill Community Association Ltd.
Provides facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupations by providing a community base.

Wolverton Secret Garden Society
Acquire, plan, develop, maintain and fundraise for the patch of land that they now call The Secret Garden.

Woodingdean Youth Centre
To help and educate young people through their leisure time activities so as to develop their physical and spiritual capacities.

Wychwood Project
Encourages people to understand, conserve and restore the landscape and wildlife habitats of the former Royal Forest of Wychwood

The Winsford Trust
Transformation of a former cottage hospital into a centre which provides a base for social, educational, health and leisure activities for the community.

 

 

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