National Women’s Register’s Mary Stott Award

An annual Award in honour of the late Mary Stott

At its Annual National Conference held at Leeds Trinity University College from 11th -13th September, member Liz Waite was presented with the organisation’s prestigious Mary Stott Award. Liz has been a committed fund-raiser for a national charity for several years but 2008 saw national recognition of her dedication, and the achievement of a personal goal.

She attended a Reception at 10 Downing St. hosted by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife, followed in July by an invitation to attend a service in Westminster Abbey to celebrate 60 years of the NHS. Later Liz became involved with a Consultative Group setting up at national level offering advice from a personal perspective of the problems experienced by those who have or have had a life-threatening illness, cancer in particular, when trying to obtain insurance.

Finally towards the end of the year she achieved the personal target she had set herself to raise £30,000 for her chosen charity. Liz continues to expand her fund-raising activities and never ceases to be both an inspiration and a support in so many ways to all the other members of her NWR Group (Twickenham St Margaret’s, Middlesex).

The Mary Stott Award is presented annually to a member who has accomplished something exceptional during the year. The award, to be held for one year, is a Quaich, the Scottish cup of friendship – and a book token as an acknowledgement of Mary’s literary profession.

A panel of two Area Organisers, the two Co-ordinators and a trustee decide on the recipient from the nominations sent in by the membership. This is the fifth time it has been awarded since its inception in 2004 to celebrate the contributions Mary had made to the establishing of the National Women’s Register in the Sixties.