:00:10. > :00:12.Time now to cross live for our special coverage of the Young
:00:12. > :00:15.Citizen Awards 2012, and Ellie Crisell joins us from Bournemouth.
:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome. I'm Ellie Crisell and we're here for the
:00:17. > :00:19.Young Citizen Awards 2012 being presented at Rotary's Annual
:00:19. > :00:22.Conference at the Bournemouth International Centre. It's the
:00:22. > :00:24.sixth year of the Awards, honouring the achievements of a very special
:00:24. > :00:28.group of young people who've all done something extraordinary:
:00:28. > :00:35.whether it's excelling in the face of adversity or going out of their
:00:35. > :00:38.way to help others. Rotary Clubs across Britain and Ireland
:00:38. > :00:41.nominated youngsters for the awards. The eventual winners are with us
:00:41. > :00:44.today and over the next half hour, you are going to see some
:00:44. > :00:47.inspirational youngsters. Our first award goes to a group of
:00:47. > :00:50.students at a school in West Lothian who are determined to raise
:00:50. > :00:52.awareness about hidden child poverty here in the UK after being
:00:52. > :00:59.shocked at statistics that one in three children are living in
:00:59. > :01:09.poverty, and that even included pupils at their own school. They
:01:09. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:15.were nominated by the Rotary Club of Whitburn. We became homeless due
:01:15. > :01:20.to unfortunate personal circumstances and becoming homeless
:01:20. > :01:25.has become -- as has been a big shock to us. You can be happy want
:01:25. > :01:32.minute and have nothing the next. 30-year-old Tim it tells his school
:01:32. > :01:36.assembly about his personal plight. It has been quite a struggle and
:01:36. > :01:40.you go through different things, like not having enough layers to
:01:40. > :01:45.put on because it is cold, not having enough to to eat. His story
:01:45. > :01:51.has been featured in a short documentary film made in
:01:51. > :01:54.conjunction with UNICEF by 11 students at his school who call
:01:54. > :01:59.themselves the Seen and Heard group. This is a film about the reality
:01:59. > :02:04.faced by many of us in the UK. There are now 4 million children
:02:04. > :02:08.living in poverty in the UK. That is one in three. Their aim is to
:02:08. > :02:13.highlight the plight of children who might be living in hidden
:02:13. > :02:17.poverty close to home. When the sort Tinney talking about his life
:02:17. > :02:26.and unfortunate circumstances and how his everyday life is, we were
:02:26. > :02:33.taken aback. No one realised that. Some of us need help. You don't
:02:33. > :02:37.realise, you don't hear, you can't see. 15-year-old Kirsten wrote and
:02:37. > :02:41.recorded the track especially for the film. You need to hear our boys.
:02:41. > :02:46.The message of the song is that there are people who need to be
:02:46. > :02:50.heard who are not been heard, and that is the same as the film,
:02:50. > :03:00.because the film tells us there are people in poverty who people do not
:03:00. > :03:02.
:03:02. > :03:05.Congratulations to the "Seen and Heard" group - ten of the group are
:03:05. > :03:08.here on stage in Bournemouth -- having travelled down from Scotland
:03:08. > :03:11.to be with us today, and let's speak to three of them. Daniel Reid
:03:11. > :03:20.and Timmy Simpson and Kirsten McDonald, who you saw in that
:03:20. > :03:26.report. Let's start with you, what is your reaction to this award?
:03:26. > :03:30.Congratulations! Thank you. Very happy, as a community and as a
:03:30. > :03:36.school, or we are all very pleased. Tinney, what is your reaction?
:03:36. > :03:39.very glad about the result. Kirsten, pleased? We are all exceptionally
:03:39. > :03:44.proud, I don't think anyone realised we would get this far.
:03:44. > :03:48.have done wonderfully. Daniel, were me think about child poverty, we
:03:48. > :03:51.tend to think about children in Africa. How surprised were you to
:03:51. > :03:55.discover that so many children in the UK are living in poverty,
:03:55. > :04:01.including pupils at your own school? As you say, you normally
:04:01. > :04:05.associate poverty with countries like sub-Saharan Africa, so to find
:04:05. > :04:09.that poverty is all around us shop is an inspired us to make the film.
:04:09. > :04:14.What about the title of the film, that says a lot, how did you come
:04:14. > :04:20.up with that? We had a meeting in the school and came up with the
:04:20. > :04:25.idea from seeing the children -- from seen that children should be
:04:25. > :04:31.seen and not heard. A good twist! It is memorable. Tinney, we saw you
:04:31. > :04:35.in the film. Things have been tough for you. Tell us a bit about your
:04:35. > :04:37.experiences and what this film has done for you. It is difficult
:04:37. > :04:44.because you do not have the essential things, like heating,
:04:44. > :04:48.warmth and food. Which many of us take for granted. Yes, so I am glad
:04:48. > :04:55.the Crewe group has held me overcome that obstacle. -- the Seen
:04:55. > :04:59.and Heard group. Kirsten, how did you come up with the song?
:04:59. > :05:04.Everything we discussed during the film, I made notes and then I sat
:05:04. > :05:14.down at the piano and made a tune. It is beautiful. Congratulations to
:05:14. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:22.Our next Award is a joint award that goes to two remarkable
:05:22. > :05:25.teenagers, Alice Pyne from Cumbria and Hannah Jones from Chester. They
:05:25. > :05:28.were nominated by the Rotary Club of Babbacombe and St Marychurch and
:05:28. > :05:30.the Rotary Club of Torquay respectively because of their link
:05:30. > :05:34.to the Torbay Holiday Helpers Network in Devon, that provides
:05:34. > :05:44.free holidays to families with seriously ill children. Here's more
:05:44. > :05:50.
:05:50. > :05:55.16-year-old Alice pine is on her latest mission, the terminally ill
:05:55. > :06:00.teenager has been battling cancer for the past four years. She has a
:06:00. > :06:06.bucket list of which is or dreams she still wishes to achieve in life,
:06:06. > :06:10.and today she is still filling one of them. Alice, who suffers from
:06:10. > :06:15.Hodgkin's lymphoma, cancer of the white blood cells, has just set up
:06:15. > :06:24.her own charity called Alice's Harare escapes to provide free
:06:25. > :06:28.holidays in the late -- in the Lake District. When she found out she
:06:28. > :06:33.was ill, she realised she I'd had to do it or it would not happen.
:06:33. > :06:40.This is typical of what our family could come and stay in, just give
:06:40. > :06:44.them a week away from everything. They break, you need a break. It is
:06:44. > :06:48.important, and it is important to spend time with your family as well.
:06:48. > :06:53.The idea for the charity came out that Alice and her family spent a
:06:53. > :06:57.week being looked after by this man, founder of the Torbay Holiday
:06:57. > :07:07.Helpers Network based in Devon. Alice has done some fund raising
:07:07. > :07:08.
:07:08. > :07:14.for us as a charity, she designed some marks, which generated �13,000
:07:14. > :07:20.for us. 19-year-old Hannah Jones, who had a cancerous brain tumour,
:07:20. > :07:22.and her family from Chester whether it first to receive a holiday from
:07:23. > :07:28.the Torbay Holiday Helpers Network. Hannah was a diagnosed with a brain
:07:28. > :07:31.tumour or at the age of 15. cancer came back after Mike second
:07:31. > :07:35.operation which meant I needed to have a third operation and that led
:07:35. > :07:40.to me having a stroke. It was either have the stroke or die of
:07:40. > :07:45.cancer. Now I am not for the fight. If the cancer is up for it, I will
:07:45. > :07:49.fight it back! We tonight to see my scarf? I would
:07:49. > :07:54.love to. Hannah is passionate about her campaign to raise awareness
:07:54. > :08:00.about brain tumours, especially in children. She has launched her own
:08:00. > :08:03.charity selling hooded sweaters and was chosen at as the charity of the
:08:03. > :08:07.year by her local supermarket in Chester.
:08:07. > :08:13.And here to accept their Award are Alice Pyne and Hannah Jones.
:08:13. > :08:21.Unfortunately, Alice cannot be with us this morning. Congratulations!
:08:21. > :08:28.How do you feel? A round of applause. Had the feel today?
:08:28. > :08:34.Amazing. To be able to spread the word about bring to an awareness
:08:34. > :08:37.and how underfunded it is... Yes, you are specifically talking about
:08:37. > :08:41.bring to an awareness in young people. Why is it something that is
:08:41. > :08:44.such an important cause it to you? It is underfunded and yet it is the
:08:44. > :08:48.biggest cancer killer amongst children. You would think that
:08:48. > :08:53.people would put more money into it and yet it receives no government
:08:53. > :09:00.funding. You have raised �160,000 so far, haven't you? That is
:09:00. > :09:06.incredible! Another round of applause! What motivates you to
:09:06. > :09:10.keep going? What motivates me is just because it is so underfunded,
:09:10. > :09:14.I don't want people to have to go through what I have gone through,
:09:15. > :09:19.and I have lost a few friends along the way from brain tumours and it
:09:19. > :09:25.is a horrible disease. How did you come up with the idea of selling
:09:25. > :09:28.sweaters? They are seen as a bad thing sometimes, and yet I'm on
:09:28. > :09:33.them to see -- be seen as a positive thing and still raise
:09:33. > :09:39.money for research funding. It is a great twist. Even my grandmother
:09:39. > :09:49.has got one! Hannah Jones, congratulations again, and thank
:09:49. > :09:52.
:09:52. > :09:55.Our next award goes to Yorkshire schoolgirl Bethany Hare, who has
:09:55. > :09:58.come up with a novel way of fundraising for her local
:09:58. > :10:08.children's hospice and has just set up her own charity. Bethany was
:10:08. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:12.nominated by the Rotary Club of Leeds. Here's her story.
:10:12. > :10:16.12-year-old Bethany is putting on her make-up and getting dressed up
:10:16. > :10:21.for her favourite role as Charlie Chaplin. It all started when she
:10:21. > :10:25.was just 10, she used all her savings to make a charity video
:10:26. > :10:30.film that Abbey House Museum in Leeds to raise a smile and also
:10:30. > :10:38.thousands of pounds for her local children as Hospice. I am dressed
:10:38. > :10:42.up as Charlie Chaplin and it is because I want to raise money for a
:10:42. > :10:49.Children's Hospice, my local hospice, and other hospices around
:10:49. > :10:56.in the UK. She put her film on the internet and donations came in from
:10:56. > :11:02.all over the world. She made her target of 5,500. When the donations
:11:02. > :11:06.came in, she went up to �8,400. has now launched her own charity,
:11:07. > :11:11.Bethany's Smile, and she has received some high-profile backing.
:11:11. > :11:19.I got Matthew Lewis, who stars in Harry Potter, to become a patron
:11:19. > :11:22.for my charity. It is a testament to how hard Bethany has worked, as
:11:22. > :11:28.well as everyone else on the team. I am so impressed and privileged to
:11:28. > :11:33.be a part of this. After making her charity video, Bethany held her
:11:33. > :11:37.first event in Leeds last September it dressed as Charlie Chaplin. She
:11:38. > :11:42.now plans to hold her walks of smiles in York, Harrogate and again
:11:43. > :11:47.in Leeds and other cities. For a 12-year-old to be taking on this
:11:47. > :11:51.responsibility and raising so much money, it is a wonderful thing. It
:11:51. > :11:56.just shows other children that they can go out there and do something
:11:56. > :12:01.for someone, you don't have to be an adult. Hello everyone and thank
:12:01. > :12:05.you for coming. Her aim is to raise money for children's hospices all
:12:05. > :12:08.over the country to help children with serious illnesses and to
:12:08. > :12:13.encourage other youngsters to fund raised but her clubs.
:12:13. > :12:18.Congratulations, Bethany. I can see how your smile would
:12:18. > :12:23.raise a lot of money. How do you feel? I am really honoured, and
:12:23. > :12:27.other people are also receiving the award, they are amazing. I bet you
:12:27. > :12:32.are. You have done fantastically well and you deserve it. How did
:12:32. > :12:37.you come up with the idea of Charlie Chaplin? I was learning the
:12:37. > :12:45.song smile and I realised that Charlie Chaplin composed it and we
:12:45. > :12:50.went to Cumbria and me and my dad made a film and I said, why don't I
:12:50. > :12:57.sing the song? Charlie Chaplin composed it so why don't I dress up
:12:57. > :13:03.as him? How did you get the movements so accurate? I was on at
:13:03. > :13:07.YouTube for two days! It looks great. You have also received the
:13:07. > :13:13.backing of the chaplain's family. Josephine Chaplin said I could
:13:13. > :13:18.dress up as Charlie Chaplin for the awards and used his silhouette for
:13:18. > :13:22.my logo. She is really proud of what I have done. You have just set
:13:22. > :13:27.up your own charity, Bethany's Smile. What is that going to do?
:13:28. > :13:31.is caring for people with life threatening illnesses, like doing
:13:31. > :13:38.the housework, so they can spend time with their children. You have
:13:38. > :13:42.got a famous patron, who is that? Matthew Lewis. Who stars in Harry
:13:42. > :13:48.Potter, for those of you who don't know. Isn't that fantastic? How
:13:48. > :13:51.happy we to get him on board? really happy because I watch Harry
:13:51. > :13:55.Potter. When I found that he was doing it, I was really happy.
:13:55. > :14:01.you have another celebrity supporter who spoke to your mum.
:14:02. > :14:07.Yes, Jimmy Saville, because his family have given me all the walks
:14:07. > :14:13.and events that are in his name. I get 50 %, and there is a book going
:14:13. > :14:18.out and I get 50 pence for every book, and the Little Sisters get
:14:18. > :14:28.50p. So they think you're doing wonderful work, we do as well, so
:14:28. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:38.Our next award goes to Rabia Ahmed from Preston, who is determined to
:14:38. > :14:48.break down barriers in sport. As well as increase social cohesion in
:14:48. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:55.her community. You can start passing now. Football
:14:55. > :14:59.is a passion for Ruud the EEF Ahmed and she is determined to spread her
:14:59. > :15:09.enthusiasm for the sport. She gained qualifications to be a
:15:09. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:16.football coach. You have got five players. Ice of the Asian committee,
:15:16. > :15:26.been brought up in that environment, I will carry on like everyone else.
:15:26. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:33.I wanted Brixham barriers. I had to get permission for them to come out
:15:33. > :15:38.and play. I don't see anybody around. It is not as if you can
:15:38. > :15:42.play in the pas. She began volunteering at Fishwick Rangers'
:15:42. > :15:50.youth and community development scheme in Preston when she was 16.
:15:50. > :15:55.She had that enthusiasm to become a volunteer. She's up, I want to go
:15:55. > :15:58.and do something special for the community. She wanted to target
:15:58. > :16:05.football as a vehicle for the Asian girls. That is something unique in
:16:05. > :16:10.itself. The Asian girls, they really struggle to break down
:16:10. > :16:13.football barriers. She has now got qualifications and sport leadership
:16:13. > :16:19.and start to the health and fitness programme for Asian women in the
:16:19. > :16:24.local community. She has become a role model for those she is
:16:24. > :16:32.training. She is an inspiration. You want to be like her because she
:16:32. > :16:39.has achieved so much and she is really young. Because of what she
:16:39. > :16:46.has done, girls can play football as well as boys. It has broken down
:16:46. > :16:51.barriers. Congratulations. How do you feel? It is a great feeling to
:16:51. > :16:55.be here today. I want to thank the Rotary Club opressed and for
:16:55. > :16:58.nominating me and given me the opportunity to play football.
:16:58. > :17:04.have been breaking down barriers in your local community, how is that
:17:04. > :17:10.going? Pretty well. The Asian community were pretty much socially
:17:10. > :17:15.excluded from football. After that, with a structured environment and
:17:15. > :17:21.structured indoor activities were women could come and play. We had
:17:21. > :17:24.to have a female on the environment. Why football? I just had a great
:17:24. > :17:29.interest in football. I have interest in other sports, but
:17:29. > :17:39.football has been a hobby from the start. You have started death that
:17:39. > :17:39.
:17:39. > :17:49.this scheme for Asian women? They go to the gym weekly now. -- at it
:17:49. > :17:52.
:17:52. > :18:01.this scheme. We give them the opportunity to go to a female Ian
:18:02. > :18:11.Barmer. How are you a football team doing? We want to create football
:18:12. > :18:18.
:18:18. > :18:22.academies throughout Preston. As it will love, 10-12 will be a
:18:22. > :18:27.big year for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Our next young
:18:27. > :18:37.citizen awards, Cameron Foster, has been chosen to carry the Olympic
:18:37. > :18:40.
:18:40. > :18:47.torch. He was nominated by the Rotary Club. I am Cameron Foster.
:18:47. > :18:55.Cameron Foster is back at his old school to talk to pupils about his
:18:55. > :19:00.forthcoming role as an Olympic torch there. My job is to be a
:19:00. > :19:07.torch-bearer. Seven years ago, Cameron suffered an horrific skiing
:19:07. > :19:11.accident. He fell 40 feet Thomas de left, breaking both legs, his arm
:19:11. > :19:17.and dislocating both ankles. It was an incident that would change his
:19:17. > :19:26.life. I spent many weeks there will chair. I started to realise how
:19:26. > :19:34.fortunate people were. In October, he was the youngest volunteer to go
:19:34. > :19:44.to Kenya with cricket without boundaries. Our aim was to make the
:19:44. > :19:51.
:19:51. > :19:55.HIV, Aids awareness more direct for Do you have a T-shirt?
:19:56. > :19:59.We used cricket as a tool to get the message across. Since then,
:19:59. > :20:06.Cameron has become the first young ambassador for the Lancashire
:20:06. > :20:11.County Cricket Club foundation. When they heard about his role, we
:20:11. > :20:18.research 10 and found out what he had done for raising money for
:20:18. > :20:23.young disabled people, there were he was doing himself, giving his
:20:23. > :20:28.Adico chum people. We Totti was a really good role model.
:20:28. > :20:33.Congratulations, Cameron. How do you feel? Unbelievable. When I
:20:33. > :20:37.found out, he was such an outstanding phone call, I could not
:20:37. > :20:44.wait to come and beat the other outstanding young people. You are
:20:44. > :20:51.are rather busy young man. What are you doing today? I had intended to
:20:51. > :21:01.get my third Dan black belt in karate. We have managed to arrange
:21:01. > :21:03.
:21:03. > :21:10.it for next week. Tell us about the trip to Kenya. It was unbelievable.
:21:10. > :21:17.A went out our cricket product. I was using cricket as a vehicle to
:21:17. > :21:24.spread messages about HIV. It was an unbelievable experience. It has
:21:24. > :21:33.changed my life. We hope to go back again. I am sure this will be a big
:21:33. > :21:38.year for year. Tell us about your Olympic torch. I was selected as an
:21:38. > :21:48.ambassador, to get young people nominated to carried the Olympic
:21:48. > :21:53.
:21:53. > :22:03.torch. How does it feel? Amazing. It is going to be crazy. I cannot
:22:03. > :22:12.
:22:12. > :22:17.wait to carry the torch through my Our last award goes to Ben McBean,
:22:17. > :22:23.who was winded surveyed in Afghanistan. He was nominated by
:22:23. > :22:30.the Rotary Club of Plymouth Mayflower. Former Royal Marine then
:22:30. > :22:33.make been more severely injured serving in Afghanistan. But he is
:22:33. > :22:43.determined to prove he is still up for the challenge, taking part in a
:22:43. > :22:44.
:22:44. > :22:49.sponsored mile run for Sport Relief. He was five months into his first
:22:49. > :22:54.tour of duty when he was injured after stepping on a land mine. He
:22:54. > :23:04.lost his left arm and right leg, as well as receiving burns and
:23:04. > :23:10.
:23:10. > :23:18.shrapnel wounds. I wanted to a doorway, then boom! I just, my arm
:23:18. > :23:28.was wrapped around my back. There was loads of blood. I was crawling
:23:28. > :23:30.
:23:30. > :23:37.around for ages. I just have to try and stay alive. Lynn has nothing. -
:23:37. > :23:45.- limbs missing. He was described by Prince Harry has a real hero on
:23:45. > :23:53.his return. There were two guys on the plane with us, one of whom had
:23:53. > :23:56.lost two of his limbs. They have been blown up by a mine. Ben was
:23:56. > :24:01.determined to fight back, taking part in an expedition to Everest
:24:01. > :24:11.base camp and completing the London Marathon twice in 12 months, the
:24:11. > :24:18.first being the than a year of sustaining the injuries. If I can
:24:18. > :24:28.raise money from Mullin a mile. That is good to go to someone in a
:24:28. > :24:30.
:24:30. > :24:34.If I can give something back, that is what I will do. What an amazing
:24:34. > :24:39.story. How do you feel to be standing here with this award?
:24:39. > :24:45.feels great. Can I just say, I want to dedicate this on behalf of
:24:45. > :24:49.everyone who has ever done anything did to help someone else. There are
:24:49. > :24:53.millions of people who do great things for charity. Not just myself
:24:53. > :25:03.but everyone sat here in the audience, not everyone gets
:25:03. > :25:05.
:25:05. > :25:10.recognition. Cheers. Tell us a little bit more about what you did
:25:10. > :25:20.in Afghanistan. A I was on patrol in Afghanistan with the Royal
:25:20. > :25:29.Marines and I stood on landmine. It blew off my a right leg. I spent
:25:29. > :25:33.minutes just crawling around, trying to stay alive. I know how
:25:33. > :25:37.much it is to lose a limb. I heard you give a top class year and it
:25:38. > :25:47.was amazing. You have done incredibly well.A motivational
:25:48. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:53.speaker for others? If I can help other people to live their lives
:25:53. > :25:59.and change it for the better, I am more than happy. Tell us about
:25:59. > :26:09.Prince Harry and the beard. We were about to get other playing together.
:26:09. > :26:15.I was not in a fit state to have a conversation. When I took my first
:26:15. > :26:24.steps, he bet me a crate of lager to climb the 30 feet wall. I
:26:24. > :26:34.climbed it and they go to the top and he said the a crate of beer.
:26:34. > :26:37.
:26:37. > :26:42.Lovely to meet you. The President of Rotary
:26:42. > :26:47.International. What has been due reaction to seeing all those
:26:47. > :26:54.fantastic young people being inspirational? They are an
:26:54. > :27:03.inspiration to us as Rotarians. We love nothing more than working with
:27:03. > :27:09.young people. Working with local young people. They are a great
:27:09. > :27:16.inspiration to us all. Thank you for giving us that final four.
:27:16. > :27:24.That's it from me in Bournemouth. I am sure you will agree, it has been
:27:24. > :27:28.analysing half-hour, I am very inspired. -- an amazing half hour.