Jeff Smith has
been awarded the Point of Light prize – with this award intended to honour those who give up their free time to make their communities better.
The awards are handed out throughout the year, and Smith received his as a result of the campaign called ‘Big Moose’ that he set up as a tribute to a friend who sadly died of cancer called Gary ‘Moose’ Cloonan.
This campaign seeks to encourage residents to take on a ‘moose’ – meaning a voluntary good deed. Options available to them include things like performing charity activities or simply assisting local pensioners with shopping.
Through this campaign and other fundraising activities, Smith himself has raised more than £100,000 for charity, including a £60,000 donation to the Teenage Cancer Trust.
However he told a reporter from Wales Online that he preferred to consider the work undertaken through the campaign as a team effort, adding:
“…so without wishing to sound corny, this award is for the whole bigmoose team, and as our Cardiff Half Marathon Team would say as they ran, moose, moose, moose!"
Local charity groups like this one frequently call on shops supplying flyer printing in Cardiff, to provide them with much-needed promotional materials.