The organization that I received this year's award for is Good in the 'Hood. We're a community service organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of the things that's really unique about our program is that we serve about 500 families every week, and those families actually get to choose their own food, they get to go through the line and select the food that they want, that they need. I started working with Habitat for Humanity about seven years ago, and I joined the steering committee for the entrepreneur house, and I've really been working the whole time on entrepreneur house projects. Spending time volunteering is an amazing way of helping yourself grow, while also helping an organization grow in their outreach and in their service. It's really beyond words to see these families where a homeless slightly out of reach until Habitat for Humanity stepped in to give them a chance of home ownership. The Pearson community awards is Pearson's way of recognizing the extraordinary work our people do everyday in service to their local community, so it's our way of acknowledging the kind of work that's happening outside of Pearson that really is making a difference in the world. The Pearson Community Award gives $2,000 to the organization that the individual volunteers with, as well as gives $500 to the individual themselves for their volunteer efforts. Operation HeartFELT USA, Legae Motheo Orphanage and Shelter South Africa, Croydon Community Meals Australia, Good in the 'Hood USA, Darussafaka Community Turkey, Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity USA, Abbeyfield Stirling Society UK. The volunteer organization that I work with is called Legae Motheo Orpahange. They've got a serious challenge, the government made it clear that they were not in a position to fund the orphanage. Our voluntary organization is Abbeyfield Scotland Society, worldwide we over a thousand houses. We provide very sheltered accommodation for the elderly, which still gives them an element of independence. One morning I asked myself a simple question, and I said what is there that I'm giving back to the community? The answer was not much, so I came across this orphanage. The fact that it is not far from where I grew up, and the fact that it's not funded, it totally made sense that I had to help them. The Pearson Community Volunteer Award is brilliant because you're buying a summer house for the residents; some of them are unable to walk a great distance, but they could walk out into the garden, set in the summer house for an hour or so in the afternoons, which would be brilliant for them. I'm a volunteer at Croydon Community Meals, which is a local organization providing meals to people who need it in the local area. It's entirely staff-run and funded by volunteers. I love any excuse to feed people and I'm also really passionate about good nutrition. A lot of our guests come from low socio-economic backgrounds and getting fresh protein, fresh fruit and vegetables is a real struggle. This is an opportunity for us to make sure that they go on into their week with a really good meal. So our organization started because we realized that we had a lot of children in schools that were not eating over the weekend when they were out of school, and we wanted to try and meet the needs of these children. So, a group of us got together, tried to figure out what we could do to help, and what we realized is if we could provide food for our children, that would help with their nutritional, their educational, their emotional needs. Volunteering at Croydon Community Meals has changed the way I view people. I'd like to think it's made me a more empathetic and compassionate person, um, I don't think you could spend time with our guests and hear their stories without connecting with them. I do a lot of the fundraising activities for Operation HeartFELT, but the meat of the whole organization are the ladies and the men that work behind the scenes to make sure that our bags are packed and delivered to schools. Hopefully through the promotion of the Pearson Community Award more people will realize the myriad of ways they can get involved in their local community, and just the breadth and scope of different volunteer activities that are available out there. I think what I've found is it's a little hard to get the momentum going, but once you get it going it's almost impossible to stop. When a company recognizes its employees for their service, it inspires not only more people to give to their community, but also creates a change to the culture of the company where more people are looking beyond themselves, and that spirit of giving, that spirit of kindness kind of radiates throughout the hallways. I really want to thank all the people who applied for this year's award. We had really amazing, wonderful applications and it was incredibly difficult to decide who the winners ought to be, because in our eyes every person who applied is truly a winner. This is our tenth year at the community awards. For the eleventh year we want to make them very special, so please look out for the announcement later in the year, and make sure that your entry is ready now. The Pearson Community Award is open to everybody, so I encourage any of you and all of you listening to this message, if you're doing work within your local community please let us know about it, please apply for the award because we really want to hear about the work you're doing and we'd hope that we can make you one of this year's winners. So thank you very much and here's to what we're going to do in 2013 and beyond.