Achievement Awards
These achievement awards are designed to recognise the positive impacts made by the work of young people throughout the UK. With these awards comes a huge sense of achievement, personal devlopment, and certified recognition of selfless actions.
Some of these awards can either be worked towards by the young people themselves, or nominated by the school or organisation so teachers, parents and youth workers can get involved too.
Why not get your school or organisation involved? It's a great way of developing community spirit and personal achievement!
ASDAN Peer Mentoring Award
The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation and ASDAN have produced accredited short course awards for peer mentors and co-ordinators. The ASDAN / MBF Peer Mentoring Award accredits up to 60 hours of activities carried out by peer mentors and co-ordinators in many different settings and contexts.
For Peer Mentors.... In schools and colleges it is ideal for meeting the accreditation requirements of peer led initiatives including peer mentors, peer listeners, buddies and peer counsellors. Youth, community and training groups can also use this award to recognise achievements in peer led youth work.
For Peer Mentoring Co-ordinators.... The award is designed to support and accredit the activity of peer mentoring co-ordinators and is ideal for those wishing to gain recognition for their work in implementing and developing a peer mentoring project. Pre-16 practitioners and post-16 practitioners will work towards slightly different activities but the end result is recognition and accreditation for your work.
Diana Award
The Diana Award was established in 1999 and is now one of the principle awards in recognising the selfless and positive contributions made by tens of thousands of young people to their schools, communities, families or friends.
Aged between 12 and 18, the 21,000 holders of the main Award include fundraisers, campaigners, carers, team-builders, mentors, school councillors and others. They have now been joined by 7,000 holders of the newer, Anti-Bullying Award.
If you are aged 12-18 and either: participate in youth work or volunteering, improve the lives of others, or demonstrate outstanding qualities in overcoming adversity, then you are almost certainly eligible for this prestigious award.
Duke of Edinburgh Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award's vision is to be universally recognised and widely adopted as the best programme for the personal development of young people. It is committed to providing for young people an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding programme of personal development, which is of the highest quality and the widest reach.
There are three levels of the award, with activities varying from helping people in the community, showing dedication to skills and hobbies, and expeditions on foot or by cycle.
There are many benefits of the award, including developing self-confidence and self-reliance; gaining a sense of achievement and a sense of responsibility; discovering new skills, interests and talents and developing leadership skills and abilities. So for young people this is a fantastic challenge with a real sense of achievement at the end.
