InspireChilli's talented Team Young People will be returning to judge the 2020 Room for Young People Inspiration Awards, with winners announced at an online event on November 3rd.
The awards showcase the strengths of young people, staff and services in the youth housing sector, with a particular focus in 2020 on inspiring stories and experiences from the Covid-19 pandemic period. A celebration event to recognise the achievements of shortlisted nominations and announce final winners will be held online at 4.30-6.30pm on November 3rd.
The awards form part of the annual Room for Young People conference organised together with our partners Clarion Futures, Foyer Federation, the Housing Association Youth Network, and LiveWest. Since the main conference has been postponed until 2021, the online awards will feature as the main flagship event for this year – even more reason to make a nomination and attend the final show. Check out the details below on what to do.
There are 5 themed categories for nominations, with an additional open ‘wild card’ category for any nominations that do not fit into one of these. The categories all focus on activities and experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic period.
- Community Action award – for young people positively impacting on a community
Judges are looking for individuals who went above and beyond to support a local community, help keep others safe in their service, or take action on an issue such as Black Lives Matter; or helped their peers by offering support, advice or motivation.
- Staying Healthy and Creative award – for young people or projects making positive use of any arts or health related activities
Judges are looking for individuals or projects using the arts to entertain, engage and connect people, or to stay active; or examples of people or projects boosting health and wellbeing through any food-based or physical activity.
- Using Strengths and Talents award – for young people who have demonstrated a strength-based or ‘Advantaged Thinking’ approach
Judges are looking for individuals who kept their focus on strengths and noticed the positives during the pandemic; or where they have challenged themselves to develop new skills/achieve goals.
- Service stars – for staff or volunteers who have inspired others
Judges are looking for individuals who achieved significant improvements in the lives of young people through campaigning, boosting participation or other activities; or who have shown leadership skills to help sustain services and keep people safe during the pandemic.
- Outstanding practice award – for services leading the way through their approach
Judges are looking for services who involved young people’s voices and ideas to shape their operational response over the pandemic; or services who made adaptions through the use of digital technology to sustain and deliver support during lockdown.
- Wild Card – any other example of inspiration suggested by an organisation
- Judges are looking for examples that demonstrate positive action by a young person, staff member, volunteer, or project, that do not fit in the first 5 categories and introduce a different theme to showcase an inspirational response to the pandemic.
The deadline for nominations is Friday 28th August. Nominations only require a 300 word entry and are easy to make. Visit the main awards page for full details – https://www.livewest.co.uk/room-for-young-people-conference
Top tips from InspireChilli’s judges: be clear on what the individual or service being nominated has actually done that fits the category of the award, try to detail the impact this has achieved, and explain why you think what/who you are nominating is inspirational. If you decide to handwrite your nomination then please make sure it is actually legible. Also, do nominate against a named award category. Don’t think your nomination fits anything in particular? Submit it against the Wildcard category. If your nomination is not made against a specific category it is likely to be dismissed. It is possible to nominate the same person or project against more than one category, but it will help to submit a separate form for each category you are nominating against to ensure you can make your nomination really fit the category.
To complete your nomination, you can either fill out the online form and export this from the website as a pdf file to send, or fill out a word doc following the same areas outlined in the online form. You are also invited to send a couple of relevant photos that can be used at the awards ceremony if shortlisted and/or a short video should you have one.
Nominations should be emailed to roomforyoungpeople@livewest.co.uk. If you are sending large files due to photos and/or a video, you are recommended to rely on a file transfer programme such as wetransfer.com which is free and easy to use.
InspireChilli’s team of judges will produce a shortlist of top nominees to be shared over the week of 5th October, before the final winners are announced at the live online event on November 3rd.
Who are the judges? Team Young People include a former #R4YP award winner and 3 winners of the Bootstrap Charity Enterprise Bootcamp. They have experience of working with InspireChilli on the development of innovative youth programmes such as the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Blagrave Trust’s Opportunity Fund and have various interests in mental and physical wellbeing, the creative arts, positive asset-based approaches, youth enterprise, international development programmes and social justice issues in the fight against disadvantage. After judging the 2019 awards, they are looking forward to being inspired by this year’s entries.
Alongside the excitement of the awards, a special online webinar series is also due to be announced featuring young people exploring themes of significance to them. Watch out for further details and follow #R4YP on social media.
Please get involved so we can celebrate the inspiration of the youth housing sector together. Don’t miss the final deadline of 28th August to make your nomination count!
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