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**BIG CHALLENGE WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!**

A BIG thank-you to everyone who took part in the public vote and well done to all the applicants for drumming up so much interest, we had nearly 7500 votes over the last week! The final list of winners has been annouced  and you can see them by clicking on the blue view entries tab on the right. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE WINNERS!!!

Young Acheivers Awards 2010 is open for nominations!

Do you know an inspirational young person between the ages of 16 - 25 who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts, environment, community or sports? Celebrate their achievements by giving them the chance to win a cash prize plus a year of support and development opportunities.

 The Young Achievers Trust is pleased to announce that the 2010 Young Achievers Awards are open for nominations. Find out more about the awards and how to make a nomination by going to http://youngachieverstrust.wordpress.com/2010/05/. The deadline for nominations is the 30th September


ENTRIES

We upload your ideas to the site as they come in and they all appear here. There are some brilliant ideas for projects and campaigns that have already been submitted and we know that there are plenty more out there so keep sending them in! You can also post a comment about a project here if you have some feedback for the applicants.

Look out for the public vote on shortlisted projects from the start of August. If you want to be told when this is happening and when we have other important news about the programme then send an e-mail to bigchallenge@unltd.org.uk with your name and e-mail address to be added to the mailing list.


Here's our list of entries:

Submitted by: Nathan Keyworth, Sheffield

Summary

Will set up Wha Gwan (What’s happening) Youth Group that will engage and inspire young people in our community who are not in employment or education to participate in healthy lifestyle activities such as Football, Streetdance, Cheerleading, Boxercise, Keeping fit, DJ and deck mixing. Young people will learn new skills. Together we will organise an Olympic 2012 theme night to showcase all that we have learnt to the rest of the community. We will cook and serve all our food, we will gain work experience organising the event. This will give a positive image to our Peers, as we always get bad press.

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Submitted by: George Opoku Nimfour, Swindon

Summary

A destined future is a campaign to raise awareness of healtheir living,stop smoking and Safe sex among young people.This project is to fight the increasing number of excessive smoking among young people,child obesity,sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy among our tomorrows future leaders.

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Submitted by: Hassan Adam, Blackburn

Summary

Inspiring young people in Blackburn to take a positive and active role in their own communities to make a difference. Using photography, a digital art, as way of encouraging active citizenship, the young people will take a reflective view on their communities and photograph the things they are most proud of and the things they would change. Through this, the young people will be inspired to better their community by looking at how it can be improved and contributing to its betterment. An exhibition of the pictures will document the young peoples work and showcase their talent and inspire others.

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Submitted by: Amar Iqbal, Bradford

Summary

Producing movie on the issues on drugs and gangs, this movie will educate young people that if they take the wrong step doing any criminal activity at the end of it you will be court and the police will be involved. This movie will aspire young adults not to take wrong actions but to be good citizens and to help the community. The movie builds awareness and promotes how to live a better life as young person. I will identify young adult’s talent to come forward from schools, colleges, to take part in the movie, The police will be involved.

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Submitted by: Fiona Rose Mills, burton on trent

Summary

I want to have a group where by people can meet who have aspergers or autism who can be able to talk about all sorts of topics and allow carers to have a break from their responsibility.

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Submitted by: Jade Van-Loo, Cambridge

Summary

We are organising a fashion show for young people across Cambridgeshire, to raise money for the local Teenage Cancer Trust Ward in Cambridge and the British Heart Foundation. We will use charity shop clothes from BHF shops and vintage clothing donated to us by businesses to show that recycling clothing can be stylish. We plan to make 5 collections, celebrating the 1940’s to the 1980’s, including music, food, culture and history of these era’s. We volunteers are the heart of the project, organising, modelling, designing, photographing, and performing at the two shows in September, at two arts venues in Cambridgeshire.

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Submitted by: Cheryl Corner, Co.Durham

Summary

To encourage other students in Higher and Further Education to undertake over seas volunteer work. I have engaged in 6 overseas volunteer projects throughout my university time and feel this has added greatly to my academic skills and knowledge as well as developed me personally. This year I have set up and am leading a group of 25 higher education students and staff from Northumbria University on a volunteer project in a Bulgarian Orphanage the programme is titled Welcome to… 'A Whole New World'. The volunteers will work within an orphanage home to over 350 babies and very young children during July and August 2010.

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Submitted by: Dale O'Keeffe, Birmingham

Summary

We are a group of recently unemployed young people who want to create a careers information website for 16-30 year olds based on the information we collect from interviewing industry leaders, as well as our experiences of shadowing these leaders. We will also go into schools and give seminars giving careers advice. So that we can help other people from our experiences.

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Submitted by: Jadine Hayles, London

Summary

We will guide and give young people the opportunity to organize an ‘unthinkable’ event that incorporates many things that young people love such as music and fashion with an overall aim to inspire and to bridge the gap between successful people and the people who aim to be successful.

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Submitted by: Mikel Ameen, london

Summary

To create a forum physical & online for young people to actively express themselves in their chosen art forms. given them an opportunity to artistically express by embracing their natural talents and inspiring them to use it in order to reach their full potential in life whatever their goals may be. through training and showcasing they will see and feel BIG CHALLENGES ACHIEVED!

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Submitted by: Matt Barretto, Surrey

Summary

Basically i want to create and organise a 3 on 3 football tournament which will engage youths from in between the ages of 13 - 19. This will enable them to coincide with eachother in a safe and social enviroment where everyone can enjoy football the way it was always meant to be played. Fun, fast and full of energy. Awards and certificates will encourage all youths to do well and the better skilled youths will be monitored and hopefully scouted by our local based scoutes. This will provide alot of great opportunities for young people interested in football or a sports based career.

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Submitted by: Michael Duah, London

Summary

My project seeks to motivate and train aspiring young champions by engaging them with the contribution of African, Caribbean and Black British heroes to the modern Olympic heritage. The project will form part of London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It will use peak performance concepts used by Olympians to develop exceptional workshops on leadership, confidence and skills development. Young people between 10-15 and 16-19 will be recruited for the project. They will connect with and shadow embassies to learn and to host national athletes for 2012, participate in the Olympic site tour, produce exhibition, book/video.

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Submitted by: Sammy Boyle, Fife

Summary

a radio station run by Young People FOR Young People in Fife. Fife Youth Radio-the radio station- is an upbeat station that plays the latest music and gives Young people the information on projects and opportunities in their local areas. We even hope to go out on the streets and get Young people to host their own radio shows on the streets! This radio is about inspiring young people to get their voices heard and listened to!

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Submitted by: Tola Batula, Erith

Summary

BE INSPIRED is an inspiring movement aiming to inspire young people (ages 13 to 25) to STAND UP, STAND OUT and BE OUTSTANDING in all they do! One of the branches would be an online magazine for young people by young people, focusing on profiling Young and Ambitious achievers and the British and Accomplished in London, with a hint of lifestyle, fashion, education and business! We aim to be UK’s No.1 YOUNG PEOPLES ACHIEVERS MAGAZINE that identifies, informs and celebrates the achievements of proactive young people in the UK whilst also providing a platform to unwind, inspire and discuss.

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Submitted by: Philip Levins, Gloucestershire

Summary

We Would Like The Coleford Comunity To have a skate/bike park that will benifit the youth of coleford and surrounding areas. We have formed a community group and have started to raise funds. We have excellent backing and support from our local council and councillers. The Youth of Coleford have been getting involved in meetings and fundrasing and coming together with ideas.

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Submitted by: Madiya Akhtar, Lancs

Summary

Our Idea is to Spread PEACE = PEOPLE ENGAGING AND CHALLENGING EQUALLY. We would empower Deaf and Disabled and BME young people to exchange roles and set up a Weekly Chat Show on the local Radio Station and have a regular weekly Slot, the young people would volunteer at the station to take Calls over the phone, the internet and via Text to discuss and debate issues that affect young people in society. We believe that the Seeds you plant today would bear Fruit Tomorrow (young volunteers). The young people would develop learning outcomes and transferable skills ready for use in the World We live in. Today’s Youth = Tomorrows Future!! = Make it Happen

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Submitted by: UNITY, Birmingham

Summary

We plan to organise and conduct a multi-cultural informative fun day where young people can inspire others using traditional values through different art forms. There will be different activities going on throughout the day which everyone is welcome to participate in. There will be stage performances allowing the young people to show off their skills and express their views and inspire others about their culture. Leading up to the fun day there will be a series of workshops in dance, drama, music, food, poetry and history. These workshops will allow the young people to practice their chosen talents which will be performed on the day.

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Submitted by: Sabiha Khanam, London

Summary

To provide grant oppurtunities to young people in Tower Hamlets. Young people will be able to apply to us upto £750 to carry out a project of their own that will benefit the young community. Grant applications will be assessed by young volunteers who will meet every fortnight, hence an initiative that is managed by young people and promoted locally for young people. Volunteers will recieve training including AQA Introduction to Grant Making, as well as develop themselves as individuals & much more!!!

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Submitted by: Yusuf Ahmed Sheylila, London

Summary

We want to have a group for young people living independently or in foster families to learn important skills like cooking, shopping, budgeting, gardening, how to eat healthily, how to make a CV and how to get jobs and work experience. This project would be for young people aged 15-24, who are getting ready to or are already living independently. We will have group sessions to share information and learn new skills. Some of the sessions will be run by volunteer adults and others will be run by young people who have been through the experience of living independently themselves.

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Submitted by: Rana Miah, Luton

Summary

Our BIG idea is to bring the community together every quarter of the year. We hope to achieve this through sports tournaments. We have already made a difference in the community by organising a football team. We have used sports as a tool to elevate anti-social behavior and increase community cohesion. we have found out that through sports we can directly target young people facing these difficulties as sports is something everyone enjoys and will be willing to take part in.

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