Mavis Parratt

Last year's winner was Mavis Parratt who was honoured for her services to scouting and as Chair of the Brigg Millennium Green Trust.

Mavis Parratt has won the Joseph J Magrath Award for Public Voluntary Service in Brigg.Her distinguished service to the local Scout movement since 1969 has been widely recognised for many years by fellow leaders and parents in the town.More recently she has been Chair of the Brigg Millennium Green Committee and oversaw the transformation of an area of wasteland on Elwes Street. After serving as Cub Scout Leader at 1st Brigg Mavis became Assistant District Commissioner for East Glanford Scouts with responsibility for the Cub sections.Later she became Assistant County Commissioner(Cubs) with Humberside Scouts.First and foremost in her regular duties, she attended the weekly cub meetings - the basic task into which she put so much enthusiasm and quiet responsible leadership.Even now at 69 years of age,after her compulsary retirement at 65,she continues to work as a volunteer with Christine Hall the present Cub Scout Leader.She is also the district appointments secretary.There must be hundreds of young people, long since grown up, who owe a real debt of gratitude to Mavis.Mavis would not make much of her honours but in the scouting world they have regularly come her way.She had the honour of meeting three Chief Scouts and attending the annual St George's Day Parade at Windsor Castle.Her fondest memory is however of leading four hundred cubs to the camp fire at the Humberside Cub Camp in the early 1990's.She also served at numerous international camps and at six Lincolnshire Poacher camps nearer to home.When Mavis,a retired social worker,took on the job of chair of the Millennium Green Committee there was no-one more keen to see the waste ground next door to the 1st Brigg Scout Hut transformed as it has been.The Green is one of the town's quiet success stories.So much of that is down to the volunteer workers who have done the gardening!And with every working party you could find Mavis Parratt,often gloved up against the cold on a January Sunday morning.For Mavis the Green has been a new challenge,and she happily admits that being near the Scout hut has been good for the Green,good for the Scouts and Cubs who can use it as an activity area in summer, and good for her to be able to see it develop week by week.Thanks to the provision of this award in memory of a distinquished Town Clerk of the 1960's ,there are many people in the town who will say-'Congratulations and thanks Mavis for all you have done for Brigg'!

Mavis Parratt was in the chair and she reported on work over the past year.The year had been a period of maintaining 'the status quo'.
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Mavis Parratt stepped down as Chairperson.