Congratulations to Wendy Chamberlain who has won one of the MP of the Year awards from the Patchwork Foundation.
🏆Community Champion: Yvonne Lawson MBE of @GLFoundation_
🏆Special Recognition: Office of @Patrick_Hurley
🏆Newcomer: @marykfoy
🏆@UKLabour : @AfzalKhanMCR
🏆@Conservatives : @_RobbieMoore
🏆Other Party: @wendychambLD
🏆 Young People: @RhonddaBryant
🏆Overall MP: @aliciakearns pic.twitter.com/Q6XG6R6syU— Patchwork Foundation (@UKPatchwork) November 27, 2024
The Patchwork Foundation describes itself thus:
We promote, encourage and support the active participation of young people from disadvantaged and minority communities in British democracy and civil society.
Here is a useful video from 2020 which explains what the awards are all about.
* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.