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Black Youth Achievements: The Awards 2010 – Welcome!
Hasn’t the year flown by? It seems like only yesterday that the ‘Black Youth
Achievements’ team were getting ready for their premier event in November 2009.
Still, time waits for no-one and this is why we should always try to live our lives to
the full. Difficult sometimes with the stresses of day to day life, but tonight we will
witness just how much can be achieved when we hear about our 2010 nominees
and their paths to success.
‘Black Youth Achievements’ have had an extremely busy year! Along with the
planning of the 2010 awards which started in January, we also hosted our first
careers day in July which saw many organisations and training providers come
together to help young people and their families explore the many different
career, further education and business opportunities available to them.
We’re really pleased that even in testing economic times, people then went
on to secure employment as a result of attending the careers day, signed up
to various courses and went on to find out about setting up their own business.
Really looking forward to our next one in 2011!

Message from our headline sponsor, Pearson Plc
Our support for the Black Youth Achievements Awards is about
recognising talent and diversity in whatever form it takes. We are
delighted to be part of this key event, which acknowledges the
skills, ambition and success of black youths in the UK. As ever,
this is a fantastic partnership and we are extremely proud to be
associated with the awards.

Abu Bundu-Kamara, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Pearson PLC

We’ve also finished designing our ‘Youth In Excellence ©’ programme, which
teaches young people how to utilise the entrepreneurial skills that they already
have (but are probably unaware of) and use these to create their own businesses.
Next year is going to be amazing!
Thank you all for your continued support not only of ‘Black Youth Achievements’
as an organisation, but of the people that we are working for and with. Our finalists
are all ordinary people, but deserve recognition of who they are and what they
are doing.
You are going to be so proud of them all and ‘Black Youth Achievements’ are
honoured to be in a position once again to celebrate them.

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Have a wonderful evening and remember – keep on achieving!

Kay Oldroyd Founder / Director

Sehaer Siddique-Edwards - Project Coordinator
Michael Braithwaite - Event Coordinator

Black Youth Achievements
are pleased to be part of
2010 Global Entrepreneurship Week.

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