Volunteers with Pembrokeshire Community Team for Learning Disabilities have been recognised in Hywel Dda University Health Board's Best of Health awards for their help and dedication in supporting people with learning disabilities to communicate better.

Ben Fulton and Julie Warlow have been volunteering together for the Speech and Language Therapy service since 2012. Julie joined us as a volunteer, with the remit of supporting Ben in his volunteering role as he has learning difficulties.

They won Volunteer of the Year being praised for their professionalism, time and energy as well as their unique supporting role to each other.

The whole team nominated them saying: "From the start, Ben and Julie have worked together as a team. Julie supports Ben with the organisational side of volunteering, helping him to plan and sequence their tasks. Equally, Ben has taught Julie our core sign vocabulary, and has given her advice on using our computer programme 'Communicate in Print' which we use to prepare 'Easy Read' resources. Julie also gives Ben the emotional and social support he needs to be an independent member of our team, in our large and busy office. We are very pleased that Ben and Julie continue to offer us valuable time and energy and are always keen and willing to be involved in new projects."