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Community Achievement Award for councillor
News - 31 March 2010
With great pleasure, we announce that Councillor Lesley Hill has been awarded a Community Achievement Award in the ‘Contribution to Environment and Conservation’ category from Braintree District Council in recognition of her extensive work in Kelvedon.
Lesley was nominated for her work with the Packhorse Bridge Society and Kelvedon in Bloom, and selected by public vote.
On Friday 26 March, Lesley was presented with a framed certificate and a prize of £100 from Councillor David Bebb, Deputy Cabinet Member for Customers and Communications, at a ceremony held at Braintree Town Hall hosted by Dave Monk of BBC Essex.
Lesley, treasurer of the Packhorse Bridge Society has been busy ‘selling’ bricks and bat bricks, collecting subscriptions and filling in numerous (mostly unsuccessful!) grant applications, ordering materials, paying the builders, cleaning old bricks, setting up and maintaining the website all whilst keeping everyone informed of the progress by regular email updates and entertaining groups of elderly residents for a donation ‘to the cause’. Lesley, who has been serving the community for just over 25 years as a Parish Councillor, is donating her £100 prize to the Packhorse Bridge Society to pay for the publicity folders she is compiling for circulation to local venues to encourage more support for the restoration project; any money left over will go into funds towards the restoration costs.
Lesley has been deeply involved with Kelvedon in Bloom for more than 20 years, firstly through Kelvedon Parish Council as chairman of the sub committee and then, when KiB became an independent group early in 1999, becoming the group’s treasurer, the role she still holds. Lesley grows plants from cuttings to sell for funds or put out in the many permanent planting areas throughout the village. These greatly help the village to look more colourful and attractive during the summer. She also writes quiz questions for the annual quiz night, a regular fundraiser. Lesley secures sponsorships, donations and grants, plans the planting for the containers and co-ordinates the planting twice a year. In the summer months, Lesley can be seen watering the containers two or three evenings a week, a task that has been made easier by the purchase of a water bowser and trailer paid for by one of the grants.
Lesley has lived in Kelvedon for 38 years and says she never wants to leave!