In a nutshell – To build on the great success of the inaugural awards programme and make this Years event even bigger and better. We were lucky to have such worthy young people to work with as anyone who was at the event or saw the TV highlights show will have seen for themselves. Being optimistic for the future is easy when you see the achievements of positive young people and realise that things are never as bleak as the media coverage of the feral minority suggests. One of our big aims for this Year is to work with the nominees and award category winners so as to support them as SOLA Ambassadors – They are now the flag bearers of the brand so this is part of the projects on-going development. Our aim is that by 2012 the awards programme will be a fixture with all 33 Boroughs and that the awards event can be a highlight of the Olympic celebrations.
I will update this blog on a regular basis now as we look to consolidate the projects long term future. It was very tough for us last Year as the scope of the project was huge for a tiny organisation like the Damilola Taylor Trust and being left to find the full funding of the event in such a tough economical climate was a challenge I still cant quite believe we managed to pull off.
This is history now and for the future we are hoping that we can get supported by relevant authority bodies so that we can truly establish the projects credentials as a window of opportunity for London’s Young People.
Thank you for your continued support. The nominations for 2010 will commence shortly.
All the best for 2010.
Gary Trowsdale
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – SPIRIT OF LONDON AWARDS
