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Recognition for First Hear by Right Award Winners
05 September 2011
Eight organisations are celebrating after being the first in the country to achieve the National Youth Agency’s Hear by Right Award in recognition of their commitment to young people’s participation in decision making processes.
The Award was launched last year to provide organisations that put young people’s voices at the heart of service delivery and development with the opportunity to gain national recognition for their achievements and is evaluated at three levels – Bronze, Silver and Gold.
An award ceremony was held at the National Youth Agency offices in Leicester last month, which was attended by:
Gold Award
Limehouse Youth Centre, City Gateway
Silver Award
Medway Youth Trust
Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove
Bronze Award
Leeds City Museum
Museum of London
London Transport Museum
Museums Sheffield
Middlesbrough Museums
Upon receiving their Gold Award, Darren Wolf Limehouse Youth Centre Director of Strategy, Development and Performance, said: “We are passionate about working in partnership with young people.
“We were already doing great things with our young people, but working towards the Gold Hear by Right Award helped us to be more intentional about their participation. Gaining real recognition for everyone’s work has been an enormously positive thing – especially for our young people, who say they feel they have been recognised for doing lots of work.
Siama Ayiaz, a young person from Limehouse Youth Centre, supported Darren by saying: “We are really proud to have gained this award, and to the be first at this level. There’s always room to learn and when you learn skills you should pass them on, not just keep them to yourself – and that is how we do it at Limehouse.”
Jon Boagey, National Youth Agency Operations Director, added: “Many congratulations to all our Hear by Right Award achievers and we are delighted their hard work in developing services with young people can now be recognised in this way. Embedding youth participation into the development of services is not only best practice, but vital to ensuring provision is relevant to local needs and we hope these organisation’s achievements will inspire others to do the same.”
For further information about the Hear by Right Award contact National Youth Agency Business Development Manager Bob Clifford: bobc@nya.org.uk or visit ww.nya.org.uk/hear-by-right-award-scheme
Limehouse Youth Centre Receiving Their Hear By Right Gold Award