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Celebrating Success at Community Links

16 Jul 2010

Celebrating Success at Community Links

Seventeen exceptional achievers received awards at Community Links annual ‘Grow our Own’ Award Presentations held at Community Links main centre last week.

The night was a celebration of joint achievement. Winners were congratulated, along with their families and the Community Links projects which they attend. The individuals and trusts making the awards possible, along with guest supporters, were all thanked for their support of the ongoing work at the projects represented.

The awards recognised in different ways the exceptional contributions which the winners had made to different Community Links projects and their own particular progress. These included two young people, Nicole Moore and Claudia De Belen, who were part of a panel responsible for administering the Barclays Capital LIFE Bank award scheme whereby children, young people and adults from across Community Links were given the opportunity to apply for grants to support a new initiative or to purchase equipment. This included providing the support to launch Community Links young people’s Shining Star Choir which opened the evening in style.

The awards also recognised the three best young ambassadors of Community Links: Emmanuel Odesaui for his work with Links Youth Online; Kylie Brown for her work with several new projects over the years and to Kaycee De Belen Young Mayor of Newham. Kylie said ‘I cannot believe I have received this recognition. I will be putting the award up in the project where I work and it will have pride of place’.

Also honoured were the Community Links training volunteers of 2010 who were each presented with their graduation certificates.

Successful Award winners were: Stevie Mitchell, Christopher and Shaun Wormsley, Nicole Moore, Claudia De Belen, Riki Hammond, Bernadette Hines, Bret Jones, Eren Tame, Michael Bortey, Emmanuel Odesaui, Kylie Brown, Kaycee De Belen, Celia Laudat, Sarah Kogan, Ciff Antony Segree and Simon Gibson.

The photograph above shows award winners Emmanuel Odesaui, Kylie Brown and Kaycee De Belen with awarder Colin Russell, below are all Community Links Grow Our Own Award Winners of 2010 and their project co-ordinators.

All Community Links Grow Our Own Award Winners of 2010 and their project co-ordinators