CEVA Award Winner...UK Volunteer Of The Year Award 2013!

Faye collecting her award from Marc Abraham - Media Vet and Pupaid Founder (Marc campaigns against puppy farming in the UK).  Screenshot taken from CEVA/Silverstream.tv footage from the evening)

Wednesday evening was the big CEVA Awards evening!  Vets, nurses, individuals working/volunteering for animals and animal charities are all recognised for their contributions to animals and animal welfare.  People4ponies volunteer Hazel-Ann nominated Faye for the "UK Volunteer of the Year Award 2013", and a few weeks ago we discovered Faye was chosen as a finalist...so yesterday evening 4 of us put on our posh frocks and headed up to Birmingham to the awards ceremony.

People4ponies volunteers ready for the award ceremony

It was a super evening - dinner before the awards ceremony...and then we had the main event - and very inspirational it was too.  There were 6 awards, each with four finalists, and CEVA and Silverstream.tv had done a fantastic job of producing short videos to show the work of each finalist.  Everyone there was united in their love for animals and their determination to make a difference.  Although individually we might sometimes feel like we are not doing enough, together we are achieving great things, and CEVA really helped us to appreciate and recognise this through their awards last night.

Faye won the UK Volunteer category...and actually won a raffle prize too, so as well as the amazing award itself, we have rather a substantial amount of champagne which was the raffle prize!

Follow this link to the CEVA website to see the inspirational videos for the finalists of each category:

http://www.ceva.co.uk/Animal-Welfare-Awards/Ceva-Awards-for-Animal-Welfare-3rd-April-2013

Keep an eye out for Logan's story - what an inspirational young man who just goes to prove that you are never too young to make a difference!

We hope that Marc the vet will come to visit us whilst on his holidays this year!

We'd like to say to huge thank you to CEVA for running the awards and championing the work of the animal welfare workers...and to everyone who was at the event - keep up the amazing animal welfare work - you are all amazing and inspirational people.

Faye would also like to say a huge thank you to EVERYONE who is involved with p4p - volunteers and supporters because without all of their help, none of what we have achieved would have been possible by one person alone.

Extra thank yous to Catherine, Victoria, Sara, Mel and Graham for covering the ponies so that we could attend the ceremony, Margaret for her personal styling skills (it's not easy to get someone who's used to mud and wellies looking glamorous for an evening event) and Hazel-Ann for getting us to the awards and safely parked too!

Thank you to everyone at Twyfords Farm Supplies in Tiverton - today they donated a week's worth of feed and linseed so that the ponies can celebrate too!

Tufty checking out the award - back to "normal" clothing again!!

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