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

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