Recognition for Pilmeny’s World War One project
Congratulations to Leith’s Pilmeny Youth Centre, who won the Sunday Mail Young Scot Community Award for their Remembering the Leith Battalion project at a gala event at the EICC last night.
Now in its eleventh year, the Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards celebrate contributions and work across volunteering, community, diversity, enterprise and education. From hundreds of entries, three finalists were chosen in each of the 12 categories.
The winners were announced at a sensational red carpet ceremony, full of VIP guests and entertainment at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre last night.
The Community category, sponsored by The Scottish Government, ‘celebrates the work accomplished by a young person that improves the lives of people within a community. Your nominee may have demonstrated good citizenship by influencing decision-making at local government level, participating in local action, or anything else which has made a huge difference to others in their community‘.
Pilmeny Youth Centre fought off stiff competition to win the coveted Communty award.
A group of pupils from Leith Academy played a key role in Pilmeny Youth Centre’s project to commemorate the casualties of the Quintinshill Rail Disaster of 1915.
The train crash at 6.50am on May 22 killed 216 of the Leith-based 7th Battalion the Royal Scots Territorial Force, who were heading to Liverpool before sailing for the front line at Gallipoli.
Last year marked the 100th anniversary and the project, spearheaded by the young people, highlighted the tragedy that robbed Leith of a whole generation of men.
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