About - Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services 2008 (group equivalent of an MBE)

The award was presented to us at our local cathedral and we were invited to the Queen’s garden party at Buckingham Palace which was a real honour. We were nominated by Post Pals families and then a lady came to interview Vikki in her bedroom. At the award presentation we were shown the report of the interview which said;

“In my time I have come across a lot of charities but this is simply one of the best.”

One nomination from a Post Pal family read;

“Post Pals was a first. Nobody else had thought of this way of bringing sunshine into the lives of seriously ill children. When they first started, people thought it would collapse through lack of public support – how wrong they were. It has grown and receives tremendous support from the public. The girls that run Post Pals have faced great difficulties themselves and do most things from their beds at home or in hospital. They often do things at night as illness can reverse your sleep patterns. They still persevere even though they are sometimes very sick themselves.”