Nominations have opened in Peasedown St John for the village’s Sara Holley Community Award – launched five years ago in memory of one of its most popular characters.
In April 2011, resident Sara Holley, who was well known and respected for her love of the community, unexpectedly passed away at the age of forty-two.
Over many years she played a key part in numerous community projects, including her involvement with the first Party in the Park festival in 2009.
To remember Sara, the Party in the Park festival team, in conjunction with her family, introduced the Sara Holley Community Award. In order to be nominated as a potential recipient of the award, candidates must have shown a visible display of community activism in Peasedown St John for at least the past twelve months, carried out their public service in a voluntary capacity with no financial gain and demonstrated a considerable amount of community activism that has made a difference to other members of the local community.
Chairman of Peasedown’s Party in the Park, Nathan Hartley, said: “As a Peasedown native, Sara loved our village immensely and always wanted the very best for it and for those that live here. Those that had the pleasure of knowing Sara will have many happy memories that they’ll cherish forever. She is missed by everyone who had the opportunity to meet her and those who are active in the community can continue to make the village she loved a better place.”
Any member of the community can nominate anyone they believe meets the criteria. All nominations must be received by the Party in the Park team by 5 p.m. on Friday, 27th May. The Management Committee and Sara’s family will then use the criteria set to go through the nominations.
For a nomination form, email: nathan.hartley@peasedown partyinthepark.org.uk, download a copy from: www.peasedown
partyinthepark.org.uk, or pick one up from The Coffee Hut, Bath Road.