HomeYoung People's Awards 2012
About the awards
Belfast Community Safety Partnership wants to recognise the contribution young people make to improving community safety in Belfast.Along with our partners, who include Belfast City Council Youth Forum, Belfast District Policing Partnership, the Thomas Devlin Trust, Linking Generations NI and the Youth Justice Agency of Northern Ireland, we want to hear about individuals or groups of young people who have made a difference while working with a community group or a voluntary organisation or through a school.
The Young People's Awards will be granted to the organisation that the young person has worked with, allowing that project to continue or develop. Any group with appropriate governance documents can receive an award.
This year's awards were presented to the winners at a ceremony hosted by Jim Eastwood in Belfast Waterfront on Thursday 15 March 2012.
Types of award
There are a number of different categories of Young People's Award.These are:
- Community Safety Awards
Gold, silver and bronze Community Safety Awards will be made in each of the four areas of Belfast - north, south, east and west.
Each gold award includes a cheque for £1,000. Each silver award includes a cheque for £500 and the bronze award includes a cheque for £250.
Community safety includes everything from environmental projects to crime prevention programmes. - Youth Forum Award
This award of £750 will be given to a project that has excelled in improving good relations in one of the following areas: race, sexuality, disability or sectarianism. - Thomas Devlin Award
This award of £750 will be given to a project which has addressed community safety issues through the arts.
This award was set up in memory of 15-year-old Thomas who was murdered in August 2005.
It will be awarded in partnership with the Thomas Devlin Fund. - Intergenerational Award
This award of £750 will be given to a project which has addressed communirty safety issues through intergenerational work.
This award is in partnership with Linking Generations NI. - Youth Justice Agency Outstanding Achievement Award
One award of £1,000 can be made for outstanding achievement to community safety in Belfast and will be awarded at the discretion of the judging panel.
The Youth Justice Agency of Northern Ireland aims to prevent offending by children. In doing so, it delivers a range of services, often in partnership with others, to help children address their offending behaviour, divert them from crime, assist their integration into the community, and to meet the needs of victims of crime.
