Fred Rowley Award and Volunteer/Young Volunteer of the Year Award
Fred Rowley was born in 1936 and died 78 years later in 2014. After training as a mechanical engineering apprentice with Cadbury’s in Bourneville his career as an engineer and company director took him to various UK locations plus Ghana in West Africa. Then in the mid-1980s Fred and his wife Jane moved to Angmering.
Fred was never very good at sitting still, loved meeting and helping people so volunteering was something he did all his adult life. Fred volunteered in a number of roles including singing and helping out with local choirs such as the Arun Choral Society. He also served as a magistrate sitting on the Chichester Bench for many years.
But Angmering Village Hall was where Fred found his niche. He was Treasurer of the Village Hall Committee and took great satisfaction from employing his considerable technical skills maintaining and upgrading the Hall.
Fred would be pleased to know that an award has been set up in his name to recognise those people and organisations who make a difference in the community he was a part of for so long.
The award was created in 2015 and has been used to recognise the valuable contribution residents have made to the village.
Previous Winners of the Fred Rowley Award
2015 Angmering in Bloom
2018 Roger Miles
2021 Geoff Gibbs, Rita Williams, Amanda "Sparkles" and Angmering Medical Centre and the volunteers from the Vaccine Hub.
2022 Pat Turner
2023 Neil Rogers-Davis
2024 Eric Holmes
In 2022, Volunteer and Young Volunteer of the Year were created and will be awarded each year (subject to nominations)
Volunteer of the Year 2022 - Jan Sheward, Cancer United
Young Volunteer of the Year 2022 - Lily-Mae Sandell and Phoebe Sandell.
2023
Young Volunteer of the Year 2023 - The Angmering School Sports Leaders
2024
Volunteer of the Year 2024 - Emily Moore
If you would like to nominate an Angmering resident for any of the above awards - please use the following link
