2016 Celebrating Young People Awards Recipients
Pope Francis Award Recipient: The overall youth award
During the winter, Matthew, a student at Holy Cross College in Bury, has quite a different Saturday night to most young people. For the last two years, between November and April ...
Recipients of the St. Josephine Bakhita Award: Celebrating human dignity
When Helen, 12, arrived in Year 7 at St Angela’s Ursuline School in East London, she immediately had to look out for her older sister, Michelle, who is on the autistic spectrum. Many of the ...
Angeline, 18, started a project to raise awareness of female genital mutilation (FGM) at Holy Cross College. FGM is an issue unknown to many teenagers, and yet there are up to 60,000 ...
19 years old, over the past 2 years Nicola has given thousands of hours of her time to challenging mental health stigma. Nicola started a peer support group at her local church in South London ...
Recipients of the Joseph Cardijn Award: Protecting the dignity of workers
As a Politics and Religious Studies student at St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, Martins, 19, has always shown interest in the Common Good, however in summer 2015 this interest developed ...
Alice, 20, mentors students at Saint Francis Xavier College, South London, where she also supports teaching staff. Over the last year Alice has volunteered as a language and business ...
Despite great physical restrictions, Corey, 23 from Lancishire, has worked tirelessly over many years to improve the living standards of those who live with disabilities, including access to ...
Recipients of the Jimmy Mizen Award: Promoting solidarity and peace
Nina and Asma, 22, have been outstanding in their promotion of peace and understanding between students of different faiths and none. Nina has been President of the Catholic Society ...
Emma, 23, has had a longstanding commitment to peacemaking since her school days. Most recently, Emma has created and found funding to set up the Women Together project in ...
These students, aged from 14-16, set up the largest CitySafe Zone in London with 64 local businesses signed up as Safe Havens. CitySafe is a community-led campaign to make our streets ...
Recipients of the Barbara Ward Award: Caring for the environment
Aged between 14 and 15, the Climate Bloggers at St James’ Catholic High School in North London have spent the year raising awareness and campaigning about the environment. But blogging ...
Now in Year 12, Sam’s spent a year communicating to others about climate change as a CAFOD Climate Blogger at All Saints Catholic High School, Sheffield. Sam’s spoken up for Creation using ...
Owen, a student in Year 11, leads Thornleigh College’s ECO Group that aims to improve the school’s environment. Over two weekends, the green-fingered students gave the flower beds ...
Recipients of the Dorothy Day Award: Fostering community and participation
Anna, 13, decided that the 'Toilet Twinning' initiative was a project that she would support. Over the past year Anna has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of water and sanitation ...
18 and from St Wilfrid's Catholic School, Crawley, Reena is an amazing young person who quite simply makes her community a better place. Reena arrived at St Wilfrid’s in 2011 from India ...
Flavia, 19, studies at St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College in Clapham. After noticing the adverse impact Stop & Search had on community relations, Flavia instigated a campaign to raise ...
Recipients of the Cardinal Hume Award: Living out the option for the poor
These 17 year olds from St Wilfrid's Catholic School in Crawley took part in a 'sleep out' in their town centre organised by the parish. Sharing dinner with the homeless people sleeping in the ...
Tom, 21, and Emily, 24, have worked with disadvantaged young people in Coventry for several years. Volunteering their time, they ensure those they meet have a positive experience of ...
These 17 and 18 year olds became increasingly concerned about the negative portrayal of asylum seekers in the UK after meeting a small group of asylum seekers in a school assembly ...
Recipient of the CYMFed Award: Inspiring youth leader
Tom has been involved in the Catholic youth service since being a member of the YCW when he was a teenager. Since then he has been everything including a YCW adult companion ...