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Jean Whitwell with her DIVA Award for Most Committed Committee Member |
The Group of the Year Award For a Voluntary Arts Group making a significant difference to their local community went to Wakefield Jazz. Chris de Saram received the award from Helen Chant on behalf of the group. |
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The Young Arts Group of the Year Award for groups with members under the age of 21 who have made an outstanding contribution to Voluntary Arts in Wakefield went to the Octave Music Group and Rhianna Witton received the award from Helen Featherstone, Arts Council, England.
Helen
Featherstone, Arts Participation and Inclusion Officer from
Arts Council, England |
Sue Perry Head of Public Health and Partnerships NHS Wakefield. Sue recognised the value of Voluntary Arts and DIVA at a time when we really needed support. & Anna
Bowman, currently DIVA's vice chair and a member from
DIVA's inception, for her unfailing help and support a true champion
of Voluntary Arts! Unfortunately
neither was able to be with us at the Awards Evening. Nethertheless
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Marissa Wakefield (Far right) DIVA's Chief Executive welcomes Helen Chant , Publisher of Scene & Heard Magazine and Peter Box Leader of Wakefield MDC

Marissa ensuring the Evening is a success

Andy Simms from NHS Wakefield accepted Sue Perry's Roll of Honour Award on her behalf as she was unable to attend the Awards Ceremony.

Award Winners 2008
Marissa Wakefield DIVA's Chief Executive(left) congratulates
the 2008 Award Winners
l
to r Marissa, Jim Morris (Parkside
Paint & Palette Group), Peter Savage (who received Junior Art Group
Award on behalf of echaos.) E Mullis (Carleton Theatre Group - Lifetime
Achievement Award) Derek Curtis - (Pontefract Methodist Church Art &
Pottery Group) - see below

The
2008 AGM and Voluntary Awards
were held at Treacy Hall, Wakefield Cathedral. Group and
individual members of DIVA were invited to attend the meeting and award
ceremony, enjoy a buffet meal and listen to music provided by Gawthorpe
Brass '85 (Young Section)


Olivia Rowley, (above) despite her busy workload as a dedicated Cllr of
WMDC takes a keen interest in DIVA and was awarded the
2008 Roll of Honour Award which is in the gift of DIVA Staff.

Group of
the Year 2008
Parkside Paint
& Palette
Jim Morris (above)accepts
the Award on behalf of the group

Eleanor
Mullis (Pictured above) was presented with the
Diva Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her sustained
effort and unfaltering commitment during sixty years with Carleton Theatre
Group.
Eleanor is an active member of the committee and still appears on stage!
A new category
of Award introduced in 2008 is the DIVA Young Group of The Year Award.
echaos
based in Ossett were the winners of the 2008 Young Group of 2008 Award
and this was accepted on their behalf by Peter Savage.
The 2008 Diva
Voluntary Arts Awards made a fitting completion to Marissa's first year
as
DIVA's Chief Executive.
She is
pictured above congratulating Jim of Parkside Paint & Palette on his
group's award. Parkside Paint & Palette are relatively new members
of DIVA but have already participated in the DIVA Paint and Picnic event
and displayed work in the DIVA Membership Exhibition of Visual Art in
Pontefract in April 2008.

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Marissa Wakefield, DIVA's new Chief Executive said ........"This has been a tremendously successful event and illustrates the outstanding work carried out by DIVA over the last ten years. This evening has been a wonderful opportunity for DIVA to show how much we value the dedication and commitment of our voluntary members and the huge contribution they make towards improving arts and culture for everyone to enjoy in the Wakefield District. I am extremely proud to be the next Diva Chief Executive and to take DIVA forward into the next ten years".

Peter Savage of Elizabethans' Amateur Operatic Society
and Diva's Chair was presented
with an award by
Cllr Olivia Rowley in recognition
of his hard work and his name was placed upon the DIVA Roll of Honour
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Cllrs. Clive Hudson & Elaine Blezzard (right) were among the
100 guests
who joined Diva at Waterton Hall Hotel to celebrate.

George
Nairn-Briggs
The Very Reverend The Dean of Wakefield Cathedral called into the DIVA
Office to oversee the Vote Counting Procedure. Over 1000 votes were cast
both online and by post.The names of the winners were sealed into the
Golden Envelopes and only revealed on the night when each winner received
a specially commissioned DIVA statuette made by local artist Amanda Howes.


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