Support 4 Sight receives the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

Support 4 Sight have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.

Support 4 Sight has been serving those in Essex with sight loss for 25 years, powered behind a volunteer service that helps to transform lives. Our volunteers work extremely hard at our hospital desks, being there when someone first receives the devastating news of sight loss, to going on home visits and helping those with sight loss continue an independent way of life at home.

Support 4 Sight is one of 230 charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to receive the prestigious award this year. The number of nominations remains high year on year, showing that the voluntary sector is thriving and full of innovative ideas to make life better for those around them.

The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service aims to recognise outstanding work by volunteer groups to benefit their local communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Recipients are announced each year on 2nd June, the anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation. Award winners this year are wonderfully diverse. They include volunteer groups from across the UK, including a community shop in Cornwall, an environmental group in Swansea, a group working with refugees and vulnerable people in Stirling and a thriving community arts centre in County Down.

Representatives of Support 4 Sight will receive the award from Mrs Jennifer Tolhurst, Lord Lieutenant of Essex later this summer. Furthermore two volunteers from Support 4 Sight will attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace in May 2021, along with other recipients of this year’s Award.

Support 4 Sight’s CEO, Gary Hyam’s says: I am delighted that the continued hard work of our volunteers has been recognised. Their hard and commitment is the driving success of this charity, we could not provide the services that we do without them.