MUCH-loved "grandma to all" Brenda Dobbs has received a royal honour.
The shining star of Immingham's Bright Spot community group now proudly wears a brooch sent by The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla.
She also received a certificate signed by the royal couple to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year.
They are to honour nearly 30 years of volunteering with the group which provides entertainment and activities for people with learning difficulties.
Little did she expect when she joined the club in 1983 that she would still be at the helm and providing fun for the members and respite for the Immingham-area families with young people with learning difficulties.
Brenda was one of 4,573 nominees and representatives of 249 charity groups involved in the Grimsby Telegraph-backed Diamond Champions Awards.
Judges picked 60 entries, including Brenda, from each region to be presented with a specially-designed Diamond Champions badge and certificate signed by the Royal couple.
The 77-year-old was nominated by club secretary Lynne Gregory, who put her name forward for the acknowledgement by the WRVS.
Brenda said: "I did not know a thing about it. I was invited to go to York to receive it but due to a hospital appointment I wasn't able to go along."
She added: "I was very pleased to receive it as next year will be 30 years of being with the group. Bright Spot is my life. They won't let me retire.
"I am very pleased to have got as far as I have."
She told how she began as a Brown Owl with Grimsby Brownies before she and husband Geoff moved to Immingham.
Initially she joined the bellringers at St Andrew's Church in Immingham and was invited to join Bright Spot.
Within a year she was appointed leader and has kept the group alive ever since. In its time, the club has moved from the WRVS based at Craikhill, to the Margaret Street Resource Centre. When it closed, the club moved to the Bert Boyden Centre in Carver Road.
There the volunteers provide activities and craft evenings, and crafts and stage quizzes every Friday between 7pm and 9pm.
The royal brooch is the latest in a series of awards including a trip to Buckingham Palace in 2005 when she shook hands with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
She also won the Grimsby Telegraph's Volunteer Of The Year award in 2009 for her dedication to Bright Spot.
The devoted Grimsby Town fan has cared for generations of members.
Gemma Bolton, 29, who has been with the group since she was 12 years, said: "She is grandma to us all. We always go to her when we need to and she is always there for us to help cheer us up. We would not be without Brenda.
Lindsay Austin, 32, who has been a member for 20 years said: "She is like a grandma. She is my B.F.F. – my best friend forever."
