Lloyds community engagement manager wins Points of Light Award
Melanie May | 5 April 2017 | News
A Lloyds Banking Group community engagement manager has received this year’s Points of Light Award for his work with a charity that he founded.
Matthew Norton is community engagement manager at Lloyds Banking Group in Halifax, where he manages the Group’s Volunteering Programme. He received the award from the Prime Minister in recognition of his voluntary work with the Memusi Foundation in Kenya, which he founded to provide school equipment to a community there following a visit 12 years ago. Norton has so far raised £1 million for the charity and Save the Children.
The Memusi Foundation supports 1000 children across four schools in Kenya, and runs a volunteering programme that sees 120 volunteers from the UK visit the country each year. Half of the volunteers are Lloyds Banking Group colleagues with three colleagues acting as trustees and thousands getting involved in fundraising events.
Norton said:
“I am honoured to receive the Award from the Prime Minister for my work with the Memusi Foundation. Volunteering, as part of Lloyds Banking Group’s commitment to help Britain prosper, is so important and it has opened my eyes to problems that the world faces and the fact that everyone has the ability to make a difference.”
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