The NE Youth Impact awards took place, with fourteen award winners from the youth sector.
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00:00We're here today because we've been nominated for the social action of the year by the key
00:08It's helped with like improving social skills on the ability to like
00:12Talk to those who are like a higher authority than you. I
00:16Think it's also gave us a lot of confidence because we've managed to do stuff that we never thought we could do
00:23It doesn't matter if you haven't done it before or anything like that
00:27It's to say that you know that you can't do because other people have done it and it allows them to feel like they can
00:33do it too
00:34Well, we'll come to the awards ceremony. It's quite a big deal. It's once a year. We came last year
00:39Didn't we it was such a fun time last year. So and we've got a couple of nominations within the Senate with our
00:47TCR hope Kenny's been nominated for one
00:50What have you been nominated for?
00:53Yeah
00:55Amelia on our table has been
00:58nominated for young
00:59Achiever of the year. Yeah. Yeah, so
01:03We'll see what happens. Yeah
01:06There were 14 awards up for grabs for individuals around the Northeast for young people volunteers and even
01:13organizations
01:14Michael Gibson from Pelton youth project one mentor of the year
01:17Lauralee page from YMCA North Tyneside one young volunteer of the year
01:22Jess McStravick one volunteer of the year from YMCA Tees Valley and Shauna Nixon one youth worker of the year as well as many
01:29other amazing individuals and organizations
01:32The impact awards were kindly sponsored by the University of Sunderland
01:36Sarah Beck academic director of apprenticeships said we are absolutely delighted to be supporting that any youth impact awards
01:43The University of Sunderland have a strong history of providing education and training for community and youth workers in partnership with regional
01:51Organizations in the sector and last year we introduced an exciting new degree apprenticeship program enabling us to work even more closely together