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BRADFORD Community Kitchen which has been serving to really feel the homeless and needy since 2017 has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service on this 12 months’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Equivalent to an MBE, QVAS are the best awards given to voluntary teams within the UK and they’re awarded for all times.
Abdul Satar, one of many founders of Bradford Community Kitchen, which because the starting of Covid has been working a seven-day-week meals financial institution mentioned it was a proud second for everybody concerned within the organisation which has big help from companies round Bradford.
Abdul mentioned: “Bradford Community Kitchen foodbank is delighted to obtain the Queen’s award for voluntary companies 2022 and we want to thank Her Majesty for recognising all of the exhausting work our volunteers do seven days every week. This award is an MBE for voluntary teams and is for our previous and current volunteers and trustees.
“We would additionally prefer to share this award with the individuals of Bradford particularly the organisations who we work with: The Millside Centre, Hale venture, Incommunities, Horton Housing and home violence charities like (Staying Put ) and (Doulas Bradford). For the individuals who have suffered home violence, please keep sturdy and keep constructive. We are right here that will help you.
“We would additionally prefer to say to all of the households which are utilizing our companies please keep constructive we’re right here that will help you.
“The trustees would love thank everybody for his or her love and help with Bradford Community Kitchen. And lastly an enormous thanks to our companions this service wouldn’t be doable with out your help.
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The the official letter from the Cabinet Office learn: “Her Majesty The Queen has accredited the QAVS National Assessment Committee’s advice that the volunteers of Bradford Community Kitchen ought to obtain The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS) 2022. This represents an incredible achievement and we hope that the group’s volunteers will really feel immensely pleased with it.”
BCK was based by Abdul Satar, Lesley Semmens and Anne-Marie Mitchell and till Covid was serving a whole lot of freshly cooked sizzling meals each different Sunday from its website on the Millside Centre, Grattan Street.
The group targeting foodbank work when coronavirus struck and has been delivering meals parcels day by day to individuals’s homes who couldn’t purchase meals.
The group has additionally helped safe lodging for plenty of its homeless prospects in addition to supplied clothes and psychological well being help.
