For the past month, the Chronicle & Echo has been working with organisations across the town and wider county to pull together a celebration of just some of the key workers and volunteers who have made a difference during lockdown.
Here we feature some of the staff at Northampton Borough Council who were nominated for The Big Thank You.
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Northampton Borough Council Single Homelessness Team - Front row left to right: Amanda Wilson, Tara Scarth, Michael Bradshaw; Back row left to right: Sian Knight, Joe Middleton, Tom Eastman-Thoy, Michelle Mellor The Single Homelessness Team moved all known rough sleepers off the streets into two hotels before helping them to move on successfully into settled housing.
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Northampton Borough Council Food and Safety and Licensing teams - Liz McCarthy, Karen Young, Mark Radley and Louise Faulkner. These staff members from the food and safety and licensing teams, working with members of the Neighbourhood Warden team, have worked to ensure public safety by providing advice and support to businesses on social distancing requirements and taken enforcement action in the small number of cases where advice was ignored.
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Northampton Borough Council Community Safety and Engagement team - Vicki Rockall, Amy Midson, Nicola Ferns, Debs Burns, Debbie MacColl, Aimee Luck, Jamie Wells. Over the past 13 weeks, the team has developed and coordinated Northamptons Community Resilience Hub aiming to deliver on protecting our most vulnerable residents. We have worked with more than 100 community and voluntary groups to ensure that support is in place for each resident that has requested help. More than 1,000 vulnerable people in Northampton have requested help and have been supported.
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Northampton Borough Council Call Care team - Annabelle Purdie and Catherine Powell. Call Care have been contacting some of their more vulnerable customers during Covid to make sure they are being supported