On Sunday, the 23rd of October, the Gold Coast held its last official social get-together for 2022. Lollipoppers lounging around Southport Community Centre provided the perfect, perfect, perfect, opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate some extraordinary people.<\/p>\n
The afternoon began with fabulous food and groovy games, followed by a presentation by Radio Lollipop founder Hedley Finn OBE. Hedley spoke about the organisation’s humble origins, the impact of imagination, and he left us with a touching story from a patient who interacted with our service.<\/p>\n
After being thoroughly inspired by Hedley’s anecdotes, the station powered into its inaugural volunteer awards for 2022. Please join us in celebrating the following extraordinary volunteers:<\/p>\n
DJ of the Year – Rowdy Rishy \ud83e\udd20
\nFundraiser of the Year – Princess Paige \ud83d\udc78
\nRookie Volunteer of the Year – Fairy Neeshy \ud83e\uddda
\nVolunteer of the Year – Mermaid Miza \ud83e\udddc\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n
Each winner and the two finalists for each category received beautiful roses donated by Bloom on Hope Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thank you, everyone, for volunteering to provide care, comfort, play, and entertainment to children and their families in the hospital. See you all again at our 2023 ceremony!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday, the 23rd of October, the Gold Coast held its last official social get-together for 2022. Lollipoppers lounging around Southport Community Centre provided the perfect, perfect, perfect, opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate some extraordinary people. The afternoon began with … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,217,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-au","category-gold-coast","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284426,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284423\/revisions\/284426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}