Brooks congratulates local students for their citizenship success
On Thursday 5th November Brooks met with students and staff from the Alec Hunter Humanities College at Westminster to congratulate them on winning a 2009 Giving Nation Award.
Giving Nation is a Citizenship Foundation project which promotes and supports young people’s learning and engagement in charity and community volunteering, fundraising, social enterprise and campaigning.
Alec Hunter beat off competition from the whole of the south-east to be named regional winners, receiving an award of £1,000 for excelling in charitable and community activities over the past 12 months and to assist them in their future charitable work at Alec Hunter. The students also received individual vouchers to make a donation to their own charities of choice.
The students and staff involved travelled to Westminster and HM Treasury to receive their award in front of an audience of MPs, representatives from the DCSF, Office of the Third Sector, major charities and partners of the Citizenship Foundation.
The students also presented Brooks with a commemorative badge to celebrate Alec Hunter’s 50th anniversary.
Brooks said, “After the success of Alec Hunter students at last year’s Giving Nation Awards, I remember telling them I was looking forward to another successful entry this year – and I haven’t been disappointed! I am delighted to see that the students and staff are creating a fine tradition of citizenship at Alec Hunter.
I was pleased to sit down and have a chat with the students prior to them receiving their award to hear about some of the issues that matter to them, and we had a wide-ranging discussion, from teenage pregnancies to the future of Greenfield sites.
It is always pleasing to see some of the common misperceptions about teenagers dispelled, and I think the success of these students really does show that there are young people in our community who care.”
Photo: Brooks congratulates students and staff from the Alec Hunter Humanities College on winning a 2009 Giving Nation Award.
