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Help Young People’s Project win a National Lottery Award
By chris @ 16:22 :: 1209 Views ::  :: News Items, Press Release
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Help Young People’s Project win a National Lottery Award
Young People’s Project (YPP), a Charity Bank borrower, is competing for a National Lottery Award and a £2,000 prize. They’re running against nine other projects in the Best Education Project category, and they need your votes.
YPP works with young people and young parents with a mission to enable them to reach their potential. The YPP had already received funding for three years from the lottery in addition to a loan from Charity Bank to provide a permanent base for their project.
Achievements over the three years include:
- Developing from a small team of 6 workers to a team of 35
- Increasing the running of its services from 3 days to 6 days a week
- Starting a whole new team of volunteers with the training of young people to be ‘peer educators’ to run sex and relationship lessons in the community
- Training of young people to volunteer in the community
- Many of its young people winning national awards for their achievements
- Running healthy eating sessions and setting up a café and catering company.
- Running and developing parenting training sessions
- Developing a new accreditation – leading to 21 accredited courses.
- And lots of amazing stories of young people’s lives changing through volunteering, starting work and college. We have seen so many changes and so many developments and we are keen to have recognition for the hard work and determination of many young people.
Because young people work and volunteer with YPP, so young people’s views are at the heart of all our activities.
To support us simply:
- Visit www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards,
- Click on the Best Education Project category.
- Locate the healthy lifestyles from the Young Peoples Project
- Click on the link at the bottom of the page
- Then click on VOTE NOW!
Alternatively you can call 0844 686 8465 to register your phone vote. Every vote counts, so we really appreciate your support.
Voting begins on 22nd June and ends on 10th July 2009. The votes will be counted and those with the most votes will be entered into the final, where public vote will decide the winner on national TV. |
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