Today, I visited the Portobello Inn in West Kingsdown to present Charmaine and Steve Powell with their certificate as runners-up in Pub Aid’s Community Pub Hero Parliamentary Awards 2021.
At the height of lockdown, Charmaine and Steve went above and beyond providing free meals for local residents who were shielding, as well as donating extra food to our hardworking front-line NHS staff at Darent Valley Hospital.
This was an extraordinary community effort that I was delighted to acknowledge firstly when I chose them to be the first recipients of my Community Hero of the Week Award last year - as well as subsequently when I nominated them for the Community Pub Hero Parliamentary Awards.
I want to take this opportunity to once again thank Charmaine and Steve for their hard work and wish the Portobello Inn every success as the Government lockdown restrictions begin to ease.