DURHAM Association of Boys and Girls Clubs (DABGC) has finally received a royal accolade it won earlier this year.

The good work of the association’s helpers, giving young people the chance to excel in sport and other pursuits, earned it the Queen’s Award for Volunteering, announced in June.

It was the first affiliated association in the movement to win such an award.

Member clubs and representatives had to wait until its annual presentation night, the first staged for two years due to the Covid restrictions, to actually receive the award.

County Durham’s Lord Lieutenant, Sue Snowdon, handed the prestigious Queen’s Award to Frank Nicholson, president of DABGC, and the association’s chairman, David Orford, at the ceremony at the Ramside Hall, near Durham, earlier this week.

It was attended by 250 supporters and association members, many of whom then received two years’ worth of ‘in-house’ awards.

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