Young Citizen Awards

RIBI YOUNG CITIZEN AWARDS 2012

Click here to see our winners from 2011 and hear their amazing stories

Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland celebrates the achievements of young people with the annual RIBI Young Citizen Awards. The Young Citizen Awards is a project conceived by RIBI in association with the BBC News Channel to showcase and celebrate the positive citizenship and important responsibilities assumed by many young people in these islands.

Launched in association with the BBC News Channel in 2007, the awards recognise young people, under the age of 25, who have demonstrated their commitment to citizenship through various activities. The awards can be for individuals or groups.

Above: a video made by BBC News looking back on the five years of RIBI Young Citizen Awards.

RIBI Young Citizen winners receive trophies and a cash prize of £500 at the RIBI national Conference where the awards are presented live on the BBC News Channel. Later in the year the winners will be invited to visit the BBC News TV studios in London.

Awards in recent years have been made to nominees involved in projects such as:

• An inner city Interact club raising money to buy ingredients and then cook and serve breakfast for fellow students whose parents cannot afford to give them a proper breakfast
• Young people raising money for the Wheelchair Foundation to supply young people abroad with wheelchairs
• A young disabled person excelling at a sport or helping other young people
• A youth exchange student doing charitable work at home or abroad
• Schools or youth groups filling a large number of shoeboxes/Aquaboxes or similar.
  

Those nominated do not necessarily have to be working on a Rotary project to be eligible for an award. What matters is that they, individually or as part of a group, have made a positive difference which has been recognised by a local Rotary club as worthy of a nomination.

Every nomination will receive a personalised certificate from RIBI via their local Rotary club recognising the achievement.

For more information, please contact:

Tony Jordan
RIBI New Generations
Mobile: 07976 321942
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