Young Citizen Awards

RIBI YOUNG CITIZEN AWARDS 2010

Click here for video footage of the 2009 winners

The achievements of young people are being celebrated with the Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI) Young Citizen Awards. Young Citizen is a project conceived by RIBI in association with BBC News to celebrate the positive citizenship and vital responsibilities assumed by many young people in these islands.

RIBI is again looking for nominations for the RIBI Young Citizen Awards. Launched in association with BBC News in 2007, the awards recognise young people (under the age of 25) who have demonstrated their commitment to citizenship through working with Rotary.

Five awards of a trophy, a cash prize of £500 and a visit to BBC News at TV Centre in London will be made to five Rotary related projects involving young people working in their communities to improve the lot of others. Especially attractive projects will be those involving young people helping young people. The awardees may be an individual or a group.

Successful projects of the past have included:

• Interact Clubs in the inner city raising money to buy ingredients & then cook and serve breakfasts for fellow students, whose parents can't afford to give them a proper breakfast
• Young people raising money for the Wheelchair Foundation to supply young people abroad with a wheelchair
• A young disabled person starring at sport or helping other young people
• A youth exchange student doing charitable work abroad
• Award to a school for filling a very large number of shoeboxes or similar.
  

We are working in conjunction with BBC News for a fourth year and the winning projects will form the basis for a mini-series of reports for television. In addition the awardees will be featured at the Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Conference in Bournmouth in April 2010, with a Live Awards programme on BBC News.

Nomination forms are available on the right of this page. Nominations forms should be returned to the Secretariat (if completed digitally, please email completed forms and supporting materials to secretary@ribi.org) as soon as possible and before the extended deadline of 28th February 2010; clearly marked 'RIBI Young Citizen Awards'. (NB - If using Internet Explorer, please right click on the link and 'Save Target As...', then open the saved document.)

For more information, please contact either:

Lawrie Cooke, RIBI Youth Opportunities on 01487 830 114 lawrence.l.cooke@btinternet.com
or
Eve Conway, RI Public Image Resource Group Zone 18a Co-ordinator on 07850 357842 eveconway@hotmail.co.uk