OUR Jabs Army volunteers have done themselfies proud. We asked the Sun’s vaccine centre volunteers to send us photos of themselves on duty for an amazing tribute to the 50,000 readers who are helping make the jabs rollout an amazing success. The Sun is making an advert to be shown on primetime Saturday night TV […]
OUR Jabs Army volunteers have done themselfies proud.
We asked the Sun’s vaccine centre volunteers to send us photos of themselves on duty for an amazing tribute to the 50,000 readers who are helping make the jabs rollout an amazing success.
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The Sun is making an advert to be shown on primetime Saturday night TV to thank the Jabs Army for selflessly giving up their time to help vaccine hubs around the UK.
And if you are in the Jabs Army YOUR picture could be used in our telly ad, backed by the NHS and the Royal Voluntary Service.
All we need is you to send in photos of yourself in your hi-vis vest volunteering at a vaccine centre to win a chance of being in the TV ad.
Already you have sent in some amazing photos to The Sun using the two addresses, listed on this page.
But we need more of your super selfies — or even short videos — of you on Jabs Army duty to make our brilliant TV tribute, which will be screened on ITV.
It could be a picture like the one Isabel Spring sent in of herself, with two volunteer pals, having fun while working in the car park at a vaccination centre.
For the last two months Isabel, 46, has given up six hours on a Friday afternoon to help with the vaccine rollout. Isabel and her friend Michelle Major, 47 — who was on furlough — signed on for the Jabs Army together. They posed for their brilliant photo with Michelle Oakes, 32, at the end of their shift at Salt Hill mass vaccination hub in Slough, Berks.
Isabel, of West Drayton, Hillingdon, London, has done seven shifts so far.
She says: “You can see from the picture that we love being in the Jabs Army because everybody there is happy. The people volunteering are happy because they want to be there and they’re doing something useful.
“The vaccinators are happy to be giving out the vaccine and the people coming are happy to be getting their jabs.
Isabel, who works in finance says: “It’s the best job I’ve ever done. The vaccine rollout has been amazing and when people leave you always get a thank you.”
A HOST of celebs and politicians threw their weight behind Jabs Army as they praised kind-hearted Sun readers who signed up.
Their calls were led by Boris Johnson, who begged for volunteers to help ‘return the country to normal life’.
The PM wrote personally to our readers, saying: “The Sun’s Jabs Army campaign is a brilliant example of the power of collective action.
“It has already inspired companies and workplaces up and down the country to join the call to arms.
“So today, I call on everyone who has the time to join the legions of volunteers already signed up and to boost volunteer numbers further still.”
Jeremy Clarkson urged Brits to get off the sofa and sign up to beat the lockdown blues.
He said: “Everyone is saying how bored they are. They’ve watched Netflix, gone through everything on the internet, read Google.
“Well let’s not be bored — let’s get off our bottoms and volunteer.”
His call was backed by a string of other celebs – including the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, who hailed our campaign as “fantastic”.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock saluted Jabs Army as he addressed the nation in a No10 press briefing.
He said: “Come and be a part of it. The Sun’s Jabs Army is marching and helping the nation.”
GMB host Piers Morgan branded the campaign as “excellent”.
While celebrities like Bear Grylls, Gordon Ramsay and Bake Off’s Matt Lucas have also thrown their support behind the campaign.
And Michael Phillips, 68, also has fun posing for a selfie in a mask on a break during his shift at a vaccine centre in Hillingdon, west London.
Pub manager Diane Broadwater, 57, missed talking to people while the Broadwater Arms in Worthing, West Sussex, was in lockdown so she joined the Jabs Army.
She volunteers at the vaccine centre in Lancing with daughter Lucy Guest, 26, who is also an assistant manager for brewers Greene King who encouraged their staff to join our heroes.
Diane, who sent in a photo of herself and Lucy, says: “Doing this has saved my sanity.
“People are so grateful to be getting the jab that it’s almost embarrassing how thankful they are to us.”
While hairdresser Frances Mtutu has filled in her time while salons are closed volunteering at the Danes Camp surgery, Northampton.
Curtis Coleman, 25, normally sells health club memberships and when work dried up, he began volunteering at the Wembley jab centre.
He says: “The more shifts I do the more fun I get out of it. It’s nice to help out and to be recognised for doing it.
Getting the vaccine is a big event for most people and they really appreciate us being there to make sure it happens as fast as possible.”
British Airways cabin crew Joshua Godfrey, 24, and Rachael Domoney-Blade, 30, are pictured volunteering at the the Richard Herrod Centre, Sherwood Forest, Notts.
Josh says: “A lot of patients are fascinated that I’m normally cabin crew when the pandemic isn’t on.
“One gentleman who was turning 100 came to get his vaccine in his old Marines uniform because he wanted to show how seriously he took it.”
Racheal says: “You get a little bit of banter between different airline crews working at the centre, but it’s all in good fun.
“It’s really sweet that a lot of people send in lovely thank you letters to the vaccination centre. We have them on the staff room wall and it’s so lovely to see them when I go in.”
Landlord Anthony Keates, 60, proudly wears his Jabs Army hi-vis vest behind the bar at Ye Old Fighting Cocks pub in Arnside, Cumbria.
While the pub has been closed he has been working as a volunteer.
Anthony said: “I’ve had a stroke and I’ve got a crumbling spine But I didn’t want to sit here and do nothing. I saw Jabs Army in The Sun and that’s how I signed up.
“We have to keep ourselves active. To be sat here for 28 weeks of the last 52 in a shutdown mode would be soul-destroying.”
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