Besides, he has been presented with a 30-year Long Service Award and Gold Award by the Social Welfare Department. He has also been commended by the former Education Department, Home Affairs Department, non-governmental organisations and community bodies, including the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.

Apart from the community and his own company, Mr Yiu is also a dedicated volunteer worker in his own Force and the regular Force. Currently, he is the Honorary Secretary of the Auxiliary Police Voluntary Services Cadre. Being one of the first Junior Police Call (JPC) members in 1973, he has worked through the ranks over the years to become a JPC instructor.

With 35 years' volunteer service to his credit, Mr Yiu is now affectionately known as "Yiu Yiu" in the field of volunteer service. To promote volunteer work and help service organisations recruit volunteer workers, he created his own website last year for members of the public to find out the services he has been involved in. So far, he has uploaded to the homepage details and photos of some 50 different types of volunteer services he has undertaken.

Starting volunteer service at 12

Since starting volunteer service in his own school at the age of 12, Mr Yiu never ceases uplifting himself by picking up additional skills so that he can provide volunteer services in a more professional manner. For instance, he has equipped himself with the skills in psychological counselling, photography, information technology, and even embroidery.

Apart from making a name in the photographic circles and winning many prizes in both local and overseas photographic competitions, he is very much in demand as a volunteer photographer for the volunteer services and social functions of both the community and the regular and auxiliary police forces. He has also been offering free courses in photography to young people from community organisations, JPC members and students, in the hope that through the lens they would have a proper understanding of social values.

As well as taking part in many short-term volunteer services, Mr Yiu is engaged in a number of long-term projects. These include a NGO's Network Service for the Elderly, the Agency for Volunteer Service's "Heart-in-Heart" project and "Schools of Hope" project.

In the Network Service for the Elderly project, a 93-year-old woman living in solitude in a public housing estate has been put under Mr Yiu's care over the past five years.

"I make sure that nothing untoward would happen to the lady and help her with any problem at any time. It's a 24-hour service; I pay home visits or make telephone calls to make sure she is alright at all time," said Mr Yiu.

As a volunteer service leader in the Agency for Volunteer Service, Mr Yiu leads a team of volunteers to assist six community organisations in delivering services to the elderly under the "Heart-in-Heart" project.

Moreover, Mr Yiu has extended his volunteer services to the Mainland. Under the Agency's "Schools of Hope" project, he leads a group of volunteers to visit students from schools in mountainous areas in Guangdong and bring them updated on the developments in society and updated information useful to them.

Mr Yiu earns a living by working as a technician with a local major telecommunication company. He may bow out from his career some day, but for his volunteer service, he never thinks of retirement, at least not for the time being.

Mr Yiu helping with distribution of rice to the elderly