“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.” – Elizabeth Andrew
Voluntary Resource Centre
Volunteer Awards
Starting in 2012, the VRC has held an annual award ceremony recognizing Outstanding Volunteers from across the province. Though we wish we could have recognized outstanding volunteers in our community in 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic put a hold on our plans.
This will be the first time in three years we have our breakfast fundraiser. We hope you will join us!
2021
Alice Atkinson, Sierra Club Canada Foundation – Wild Child PEI
Julie Ann Gauthier, PEIBWA, CCTP, Empower PEI
Aaron MacIsaac, Football PEI
Jill O’Halloran, Central Coastal Tourism Partnership (CCTP)
Volunteers for PEI Fight for Affordable Housing
2019
Khalid Elshami, PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada
Shirley Gallant (posthumously), Panmure Island Lighthouse
Association
Leo Garland, PEI People First
Tomoyo Suzuki, PEI Wild Child, Sierra Club Canada
2018
Leo Broderick, Council of Canadians
Irene Burge, Cooper Institute
Blair Corkum, Community Legal Information Association
Peter Dunfield, Canadian Cancer Society
Judy Herlihy, Women’s Network
Gerry Mawhinney, New London Community Complex
Valerie Curtis, Bedeque Area Historical Society
2017
Heather Cutcliffe, Heart & Stroke Foundation
Irene Doyle, Parkinson Society PEI
Abby Goodwin, Charlottetown Rugby Football Club
Thomas Sherry, Friends of Seacow Head Lighthouse
Doug Sobey, Bedeque Area Historical Society
Tom Stewart, Pickle Ball Committee
2016
Matt Lawrence, Dodgeball PEI
Rob Binns, Speed Skate PEI
Fraser Campbell, Colville Manor, Meals on Wheels & Ten Thousand Villages
Shannon Courtney, PEI Food Exchange
Fiep de Bie, Island Nature Trust
Don Glendenning, Education 20/20 Inc.
Panmure Island Lighthouse Restoration Committee, Panmure Island Lighthouse
Emily Wells, Farmers Helping Farmers
2015
Juanita Boucher, Queen Elizabeth Elementary Home & School Association
Sarah Bulman, City Centre Community School & Young Voters of PEI
John Davison, Kensington & Area Chamber of Commerce
Joan Diamond, Holland College Green Machine & Pesticide Free PEI
Martin Marcoux, RDÉE îPÉ
Shaun Matheson, Football PEI
Barry Maze, Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty
Don Mazer, Citizen’s Alliance of PEI
Darcy Murnaghan, Special Olympics PEI
2014
Maureen Kerr, Pesticide Free PEI
Maureen Larkin, Guatemala-Maritimes Breaking the Silence Network
Hazel MacMillan, Parkinson Society
Jordan MacPhee, ECO PEI
Rosemary McGuirk, PEI Council of People with Disabilities
Danielle Rochon, Big Brothers Big Sisters of PEI
2013
Najam Chishti, Muslim Society of PEI Inc. & PEI Table Tennis Association
Ruby Cousins, Malpeque Historical Society
Helen Dawson, Uigg-Kinross-Grandview Women’s Institute
Susan Doiron, PEI Rape & Sexual Assault Centre
Henri & Gloria Gallant, Big Brothers Big Sisters of PEI
David MacCallum, Kiwanis Club of Charlottetown
Cindy Richards, PEI Citizens’ Alliance
2012
Norm Fotheringham, Canadian Cancer Society
Melissa Good, Charlottetown People First
Samatha Harris, Big Brothers Big Sisters
Nancy MacLean-Eveson, Town of Souris
Amanda Moore, Canadian Parents for French
Chris Ortenburger, ECO PEI
Edith Perry, nominated by Cooper Institute for ALERT,
PEI Working Group for a Livable Income, NDP of PEI
Thane Smallwood, Scouts Canada
Joan McDonald, PEI Citizen Advocacy
Wendy Ross, Kids West Family Resource Centre