Here are some of the volunteers who work at the club and continue “to brighten young lives and make good citizens“.

Volunteers

We have a group of young people aged 16- 20 who have graduated from club members to volunteer status.

9 of our volunteers have been awarded certificates at the recent annual meeting of the Greater Manchester Trust For Recreation. Archie Swift, Eric Salthouse and Bill Seddon were given the Presidents Award for more than 50 years voluntary service. Jimmy Rice and Dennis Lewtas received the Platinum Award for more than 40 years voluntary service. Roy Watson and Brian Conway gained the Gold Award for more than 30 years voluntary service. Alan Sloan, John Flanagan and David Connell were presented with Silver Awards for more than 20 years voluntary service.

We are looking for more volunteers to work with the Girls’ Club on tuesday evenings from 7-9pm. so if you think you can help please contact us by phone or email.

If you would like to volunteer to help the club in any capacity – working with young people, organising events or fundraising – please contact us.

Archie and Eric

Archie and Eric

Two of the longest serving volunteers are Archie Swift (left) and Eric Salthouse (right) Between them Eric and Archie have more than a hundred years service with the club. Archie was awarded the ‘Salford Citizen of the Month’ in April 2004 for his lifetime work as a volunteer at the club. Eric was named as ‘My Hero’ by Manchester entrepreneur Dave Tynan in the June 2004 edition of Social Enterprise magazine.

The Cambrian News reported on the club’s historic seventieth year of camping in Aberystwyth this summer. They described the friendship between Eric and Archie that started at camp in 1949. Eric had been a member of the club for 2 years and Archie was at his first camp. ‘Archie remembers “Eric won a brand new pair of football socks which was a fantastic prize back then, but he gave them to me without giving it a second thought. I had nothing, none of us did, and I couldn’t believe he had given me his socks.” Eric said that they had grown up together and stuck together. When they had outgrown camp the pair, wanting to give something back, worked in the camp’s cookhouse.’