Celebrating success: North Edinburgh Youth Awards

Community gets together to recognise youth achievements 

The North Edinburgh community celebrated the achievements of our local young people at a gala event at North Edinburgh Arts on Thursday evening. The North Edinburgh Youth Awards were organised and presented by North Edinburgh Young People’s Forum and the evening was a great success.

North Edinburgh Young People’s Forum received an huge volume of nominations, particularly in the Under-Twelves categories, and selecting winners was an incredibly difficult task for the judges.

After a lot of hard work, however, the winners were:

UNDER TWELVE AGE GROUP AWARDS

Pupil of the Year:

Winner: Freya Eng

Sports Personality of the year:

Winner: Hayden Sharpe

Youth Organisation of the Year:

Winner: Royston Wardieburn Community Centre

Runner-Up: Muirhouse Millennium Centre

Young Performer of the Year:

Winner: Freya Grig

Young ECO Warrior of the year:

Winner: Hannah Martin

Runner-Up: Mia Saunders

12 – 21 AGE GROUP AWARDS

Most improved young Person of the Year:

Winner: Aaron Frail

Runner-Up: Louise Auchterlonie

Volunteer Of The Year:

Winner : Chris Barnes, Muirhouse Millennium Centre

Runner–Up: Dominik Zakrocki, Open All Hours

Pupil of the Year:

Winner: Lewis Frail

Runner-Up: Lennon Stevens

Sports Personality of the year:

Winner: Josh Ward (judo)

Runner-Up: Joshua Campbell

Footie Fanatic:

Winner: Damien Mullen

Runner-Up: Joshua Campbell

Youth Organisation of the Year:

Winner: Pilton Youth and Children’s Project (PYCP)

Runner-Up Muirhouse Youth Development Group (MYDG)

Young Performer of the year:

Winner: Annie Chueng

Runner-Up: Christopher Mullen.

Young ECO Warrior of the year:

Winner: Brian Reid

Runner-Up: Laura Hulbert

As you can see there were loads of categories but, unlike some other award ceremonies I could mention, acceptance speeches were thankfully very short (many were non-existent!) so the event went like clockwork. There were great tunes during the interval too from local musician Ross Arthur.

The idea for an awards ceremony was first raised at last autumn’s Youth Talk event and, with the enthusiastic support of Forth Neighbourhood Partnership, the dream became a reality. It’s hoped the Youth Awards can now become an annual event.

Lots more Youth Awards pictures on our Facebook Page!