The Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Award
Our local awards named after Pier Giorgio Frassati give local Catholic communities the resources to celebrate their young people. Million Minutes offers everything you need to nominate and celebrate your young people, and their contribution to the common good within your local community. You can nominate a young person at any time without waiting for our national awards to open. Please explore how you can celebrate your young people below.
Across the country, young people are changing our world. In quiet and unassuming ways-week in and week out. Contributing to the common good across their local communities. This year lets take time to celebrate our amazing young people. They’ll inspire the rest of us with their stories. This is your call to action - Nominate a young person or group you know for a Pier Giorgio Frassati Award today. Nominations are open on a rolling basis. More details are below.
Recognising young people who are working towards the common good, ensuring no one is left behind, caring for all people, believing in the inherent dignity of all human beings. They also work towards improving the environment around them, and they take a holistic approach to all whom they encounter.
RESOURCES:
Nomination Form
PowerPoint
FAQs
Award Criteria
Find out more about Pier Giorgio Frassati here.
Be inspired by our our 2020/21 Award Recipients.
Consider some simple ways to celebrate young people all year round here.
If you are interested in nominating your young person or group for our national Celebrating Young People Awards, please explore our page here for more information about the next awards ceremony.
CELEBRATING YOUNG PEOPLE’S POSITIVE RESPONSES TO COVID-19 AND BEYOND:
Over the last few months Million Minutes has devised a range of online conversations for Priests, Teachers, Chaplains, Youth Workers etc all of which have had the young people we work with in mind. Every week we have been inspired by the stories of young people who in this challenging time are making the most out of this situation. Young people who are promoting better mental well-being, creating scrubs and delivering food to our front-line workers, setting up social distanced youth activities in their local communities and so much more. We are inspired by these efforts and want to recognise and celebrate those young people who are doing amazing things day in and day, ultimately contributing to the common good. Our aim with the Pier Giorgio Frassati Award is to recognise the ordinary amazing actions of our young people from across England and Wales.
Our award recipients come from nominations from the Catholic community. Applications are open on a rolling basis and all who are nominated will be considered for a small grant (£50 - £300), to enable the continuation of their common good efforts across their local community. Successful recipients of the grant (on condition that they meet our grant criteria) will be presented with the award from within their local community – this could be a Million Minutes Champion or a school/parish or church leader. To nominate an individual or group you must be nominating from within the Catholic community.
Please note that we will NOT accept grant applications from:
• High profile appeals, and organisations/groups whose primary purpose is fundraising • Endowment appeals• Overseas projects• Organisations or projects whose primary purpose is political. • Pilgrimages or overseas trips. • Activities which are not genuinely youth-led • Activities that do not support or benefit the common good of society.
Before you nominate please read our FAQs here and our Award Criteria here.