Our champions of champions

Council workers including refuse workers, care assistants, trading standards officers, environmental health inspectors, youth workers, librarians, cleaners, administrators – and so many more – were nominated in the first Local Service Champions awards from UNISON before COVID-19 hit. Hundreds of people who provide outstanding care and service to their communities were nominated – and now we can share the stories of the inspiring winner and runners up, Jenny, Carol and Mark. Winner Jenny Evans is a senior customer services representative at Frodsham library, in Cheshire. She’s worked in libraries for 40 years. In a short film for UNISON filmed in 2019, she said: “I started at 16, and was taken on permanently in October 1979, and I haven’t stopped working. I still have that buzz and enthusiasm, and I just want everyone else to have that.” Her colleague Sandra Evans, who nominated her, said: “Jenny is a champion of the community. She has transformed the library into the community hub it was meant to be. She has read stories to generations of children who now bring their own children to story time. She focuses and adapts services available when possible to provide essential help to the public. And when we can’t help, she always knows someone who can.” Jenny, pictured below, said: “I’m only doing my job, which is what I’ve always done, and hope to continue to do.” Jenny has won a much-deserved three-night stay at Croyde Bay. Runner-up Carol Sinclair is...
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