NCVYS Young Partners Award 2010
Inspire, Innovate, Involve…
The NCVYS Young Partners Award 2010 are now open for nominations from all voluntary and community youth organisations and projects. Read on to find out more information on this year's award ceremony and how you can nominate. Please see the links below for further information and to make a nomination. Young Partners Award Letter Young Partners Award Nominations Leaflet Young Partners Award Application Form What is the NCVYS Young Partners Award?
The NCVYS Young Partners Award (YPA), sponsored by Participation Works, the Big Lottery Fund and PGL, is a celebration of young people’s involvement in decision making within voluntary and community youth organisations or projects. It provides an opportunity for such organisations and projects to demonstrate what young people and adults can achieve through working in partnership, sharing ideas and inspiring eachother.
A Unique Award
Young people from NCVYS’s national youth forum organise the entire event. Using their own experiences they review, plan, shortlist and deliver the awards ceremony. How are the nominations short-listed?
Nominations are short-listed in five categories, based on English regions. They are:
• North Awards
• South Awards
• National Awards
• London Awards
• Midlands Awards
Each short-listed organisation or project will be visited by a NCVYS staff member and young people from our national youth forum, ENVOY, who will look for areas of youth participation within the selected organisation, which is how winners are decided. What do the winners get?Winners receive:
• £500 small grant towards developing a youth participation project
• A NCVYS Young Partners Award and certificate
• An activity day away at a PGL centre in England
• An invitation to the ceremony in December to receive the award
• A year’s free NCVYS membership
• An opportunity to lead a youth participation workshop at the NCVYS practice sharing event
• Promotional opportunities through NCVYS publicity and receiving national recognition
STEP 1Who can be nominated? Anyone, young or old, can nominate an organisation or project that they think desreves to win an award for youth participation. STEP 2How do I nominate? All you need to do is download an application form and complete all the questions. STEP 3Who do I send the form to? Once the form has been completed, return the form before the closing date of Friday 17th September 2010 to the Youth Participation team to the NCVYS address which can be found on the contact us page of the website or you can email it over to Keji Okeowo. For more informationIf you have any questions regarding the Awards, please contact Youth Participation Officer, Keji Okeowo on T: 020 7278 1041. 
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