Woman&home AMAZING WOMEN AWARDS 2021 Meet your community heroes!
Never have our communities been more vital and valued than over the past 12 months. As the pandemic shrank our worlds, we have come to know our friends, neighbours, local businesses and services like never before. We asked you to nominate amazing women serving your communities, who make a huge difference. It was hard to narrow the list to 15 finalists, but these women were selected for their outstanding contribution to improving lives.
Now you can choose which of these fabulous women you would like in the final of the Amazing Women Awards 2021. To vote, visit womanandhome.com/vote21. Look out for the winners in our November issue.
WALES & WEST MIDLANDS
CREATING A SOCIAL HUB
Veronica Wells, 73, from Prestatyn, co-founded the Prestatyn and Meliden Community Action Group pop-in centre in the mid-1990s for disaffected youth in the town. She became unpaid chair and has driven the project for 25 years, expanding services for the wider community.
Veronica says: The pop-in has developed into the main social hub for the town’s young people, their families and senior citizens. We work closely with health, police and educational professionals, which has enabled us to establish trust and develop successful advocacy services for families in crisis. We are supported by many local volunteers, and hundreds of people access our services each year.
RonStar, as she is known to me, saved my sanity and helps an army of people daily, week in week out, throughout the year.
