A group of volunteers who arranged food boxes and wellbeing calls throughout the pandemic, a woman who cooked meals for the underprivileged and a sea scout group who distributed face masks, have shown why they are community champions.

We asked readers to get in touch and tell us about those people or businesses who have gone the extra mile during the Covid-19 crisis.

One such person, Watford resident Pam Robertson, has been cooking non-stop for One Vision – a network of Watford-based voluntary organisations .

One Vision made and distributed 100,000 hot meals over the last 10 months, serving underprivileged members of the community.

This community champion gives her time to plan and cook hundreds of meals daily and has spent many hours of her free time cooking emergency food for children across 22 schools served by the charity network.

Another inspirational force for good are the 14th Bushey and Oxhey sea scout group and excalibur explorer unit.

Between this group of young people and adults they made and distributed over 1,800 face shields during the pandemic and hundreds of sandwiches to NHS staff.

The sea scouts allowed a local food distribution team to use their hut to store and sort supplies and leaders helped distribute the parcels at no cost.

Volunteers Siobhan Burleigh and Rebecca Player, both from Watford, set up and ran the Watford and Bushey Covid-19 group.

The dedicated pair managed a team of volunteers, and working with the Watford and Three Rivers Trust, they arranged food boxes and calls for people across Hertfordshire who could not leave their homes.

Siobhan and Rebecca went above and beyond to coordinate relief efforts, all while working and home schooling.

Gary O’Brian from Watford has gone out of his way to support young adults with special needs during the pandemic, making sure they can still have the support they desperately need.

Known as ‘happy Gary' by friends and colleagues, he is full of life and dedicated to making young adults with special needs feel supported during such a stressful period in history.

Another Watford resident to distinguish themselves among all the selfless acts is Paul Turturici.

Paul continues to work on the frontline of the virus at a residential home. He and his colleagues have shown tremendous strength to keep battling through the worst of the pandemic, despite the pain of losing residents to the killer virus.

Watford resident Suren Vis has donated sweet boxes to hospitals across the county to help keep staff going through this difficult time. He also delivers to home carers and people who have been poorly.