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The Chair welcome Simon Malcolm to his first meeting of the Authority since being appointed as the new Director of Commercial Development and Outreach.

She then invited Simon, Dave Cramp, Conservation Volunteers Officer and Steve Hampton Health Training Co-Ordinator from Fit for work Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland Community Rehabilitation Company to comment on the recent UK National Parks Volunteer Award given to the Fit for Work Volunteers. Fit for Work was run by the Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland Community Rehabilitation Company to give people the opportunity to gain work experience and references from four days each month with the Peak Park Conservation Volunteers, learning skills such as dry stone walling, leading to NVQ certificates in countryside management.

The Chair formally presented the award and congratulated those involved.