Good Service Awards
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Published: March 31, 2025
Congratulations to our Good Service Award Recipients
The Scout Association in the United Kingdom offers a series of Good Service Awards to recognize adult volunteers who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and service. These awards are progressive, each with specific criteria:
- Chief Scout’s Commendation for Good Service: Awarded for a minimum of five years of noteworthy service.
- Award for Merit: Granted for outstanding service over at least 12 years (exceptionally after 10 years), reflecting keen, conscientious, imaginative, and dedicated contributions.
- Bar to the Award for Merit: Presented after an additional five years of outstanding service following the initial Award for Merit.
- Silver Acorn: Bestowed for specially distinguished service, typically after 20 years of exceptional commitment.
- Bar to the Silver Acorn: Given after at least five more years of similarly distinguished service beyond receiving the Silver Acorn.
- Silver Wolf: The highest award, it is the unrestricted gift of the Chief Scout, awarded for service of the most exceptional nature, usually after a recipient has been awarded the Silver Acorn.
I am delighted to congratulate the following recipients of good service awards from Lincolnshire who received their awards between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024.
Howard Nelson
County Lead Volunteer
Lincolnshire Scouts
Silver Wolf
Kevin Whitfield
Malcolm Moore
Mavis Margetts
Nigel Savill
Priscilla Lamerton
Silver Acorn
Clare Dunderdale
Delphine Norton
Helen Whitfield
Irene Hewitt
Laura Barlex
Lucy Copeland
Oliver Chapple
Paul Woodhead
Valerie Robinson
Yvonne Bull
Bar to the Award for Merit
Andrew Peall
James Walker
Jamie Wood
Katie Smit
Kevin Compton
Sarah Temperton
Tracey Everatt
Award for Merit
David McGarry
Karen McGarry
Claudia Rugg
Dawn Prentice
Marie-Jose Blankley
Julian Cooke
Katie Lilly Firth
Mallory Short
Ray Twell
Robert Gibbins
Christopher Cole
Gemma Selby
Heather Maltby
Jacqueline Selby
Simon Thompson
Stephen Woolsey
Thomas Wood
Michael Bentley
Carolyn Greig
Catherine Carrington
Clifford Rowles Nicholson
Lorraine Derrick
Rachel Tupholme
Richard Harvey
Chief Scout's Commendation for Good Service
Abigail Kingswood
Adam Vero
Amanda Retford
Andrew Emerson
Ashleigh Bird
Cameron Marnoch
Cameron O’Hara
Clare Plummer
Clare Arthur
Daniel Cole
Danielle Blyth
David Baldwin
Devi Jodhan-Singh
Edward White
Eleanor Stringer
Gary Williams
Georgina Elliott
Hannah Warburton
Harry Elliott
Hazel Brown
Heidi Dixon
Holly Scoffield
Isabel Phillips
James Haydon
Joanna Baldwin
Johanna Fryer
John Garrison
Judith Carter
Karl Fuller-Whelan
Laura Cunnington
Laura Cullen
Laura Shields
Lewis Wilson
Lindsay Freeman
Lisa Faulkner
Liz Walton
Luke Howard-Pask
Margaret Marchant
Matthew Ratcliffe
Matthew Latham
Michael Rowlatt
Michael Kaynes
Michael Reed
Murray MacDonald
Natalie Horne
Neal Wilkinson
Paul Tildesley
Paul Williams
Rebecca Towers
Richard Goodhand
Roger Goodchild
Samantha Bryant
Samantha Roberts
Sharon Smith
Siobhan Newbatt
Thomas Morton
Timothy Giles
Tracy Mcgrath
Wayne Cunnington
William Barlex
Yvonne Lister
