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of the awards. Hello and welcome. We are here for | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
the young citizen a words 2013, being presented as part of rotary's | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
annual conference, coming this year from the Harrogate International | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Centre. It is the 7th year of these are words, honouring the | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
achievements of a very special group of young people, who have all | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
done something extraordinary, either excelling in the face of it | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
bursary or going out of the way to help others. Rotary clubs across | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at nominating. Over the next half- | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
hour, you would hear some truly inspirational stories. Our first a | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
word goes to 15-year-old Grace O'Malley from Lancashire, who has | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
used her soprano voice to raise tens of thousands of bounds for | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
charity. She was nominated by her local Rotary Club. Here is her | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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story. Every song she sings has a special significance for 15-year- | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
old Grace O'Malley. She started singing lessons at the age of six | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
and is determined to use her vocal talent for the benefit of others. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Here she is rehearsing for an ex servicemen's then her taking place | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
later this month. Grace has raised more than �50,000 for various | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
charities, including the Royal British Legion, of which she has | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
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She is a lovely singer and a great asset to the British Legion. It is | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
a beautiful CD - absolutely beautiful. She has recorded a CD to | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
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raise funds for a hospice in Burnley, which has so far raised | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
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It made me cry! It did. Such a big boys from such a little girl. She | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
is marvellous. What do we want to raise at this one? She is also | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
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helping the charity - as they get a charity for childhood -- she is | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
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also helping a charity for child had cancer. I attended a | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
remembrance service locally. She sang abide With Me. You can tell it | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
affects me deeply. Since then we have become great friends. She has | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
even adopted me as a grandad. I am very grateful for that. She has | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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given me a new lease of life. You Grace O'Malley is here with me now. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
You have got the stunning voice. You are going to sing for us later. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
There were not be a drier it in- house. It is beautiful. When did | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
you realise you could sing like that -- at a dry eye in the house. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Whitey want to use your talent to help others? I love the raising | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
money for charity. I love singing. -- I love raising money. Putting | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
them together, I really enjoyed doing it. All these charities, I | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
love raising money for them because they're so worthwhile. I would | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
raise money for any charity. what was your reaction of being | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
made an honorary member of the Royal British Legion? I am really | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
honoured am proud. Tummy about the song she saying? -- Tamayo. Either | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
people ask me to sing the songs and I love singing them. It is for a | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
different charity or person to dedicate it to. You can see how | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
affected people are by you seeing as Charles Ted is welling up. How | :04:50. | :04:59. | |
do people react? I do feel proud and also it I feel sad sometimes | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
when I see people cry. I did not want to make you cry but it is | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
happy tears. You have other ambitions, don't you? I have | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
ambitions in the future. I always want to raise money for charity. I | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
will never stop doing that. Performing at the Albert Hall? | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
would love to do that. I am sure it will happen. Congratulations on | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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your reward. Thank you for speaking Our next aboard when they just | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
missed out on representing Great Britain and the London 2012 | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
Paralympic Games. -- award winner. Lauren Jones won her award for | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
being an inspiration to many young people. She has overcome adversity | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
to become ranked world number one in junior girls will chair - is | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
that a wheelchair tennis. 17-year- old junior wheelchair tennis | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
champion Laurent Jones has come a long way since an accident left her | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
paralysed from the waist down. She broke her back when she fell 25 ft | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
from a tree in June, 2009. I fell from a tree and hit a branch on the | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
way down. It snapped my spine in half about halfway down my back. I | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
was rushed to hospital. I was told a would never walk again when I | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
became conscious. -- I would never walk again. I was put on a spinal | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
rehabilitation unit to get my independence. I was selected for | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
having some talent like some athletic ability, as I picked up a | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
lot of the wheelchair skills quite quickly. Now ranked number one in | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
the world in junior girls a wheelchair tennis. Her story is | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
fantastic. She had not played Test before her accident and had not | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
been in a wheelchair either. -- played tennis. She had to learn | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
tennis and also will chair skills as well. To get where she is is | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
very impressive. How many times have you fallen out of the | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
wheelchair when you started? Quite a few times. Lawrence visits local | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
schools to talk about disability sports and aims to inspire | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
gangsters to take up sport. story is inspirational. -- inspire | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
youngsters. She has managed to cope with the situation really well. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
did not really know about the Paralympics and that people could | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
do sport. Nine-hour day can and they are really good at it. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
narrowly missed out on being selected for the 2012 Paralympics. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
She is on the Rio development programme and is busy training for | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
the next Games in 2016. She is here with us now. Congratulations on | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
your board. It is an incredible story. It was two weeks at real | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
40th birthday get you found out you are not going to walk again. -- | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
before your 14th birthday. It did not really feel that real. I was on | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
a lot of drugs I do not really remember that time. It happened so | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
I make the best out of it. Your achievements have been phenomenal. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Am I right in thinking you did not play tennis before Andy ticket up | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
latterly? I played football with ambitions for playing for England. | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
Or my aims were about football so it was a bit of a shock. You and | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
add the youngest highest ranked player in the world in women's | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
wheelchair tennis. -- you are the youngest was but that is such an | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
unbelievable achievement in such a short space of time. How do you do | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
it? A lot of hard training. That is getting harder the more I get. I | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
want to get to the top. As we heard in the report, you had to master | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
two skills - will chair and tennis have. It must be incredibly | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
challenging. You change a lot. wanted to get on and get out of | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
hospital as quick as possible. That was what a picked up in hospital. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
It was Lenin had to develop my skills and use them for 10 S. -- it | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
was learning how to develop my skills and use them for tennis. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
do you think it is important to change attitudes? I was not the way | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
she could get high in sport 20 a disabled. It is about trying to get | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
awareness and get others in my position to help them to achieve. | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Here is to Rio. You are going to do it. We believe in you. At Bankia | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
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they match -- thank you very much. It is estimated there are 700,000 | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
young carers in the UK. CJ and Becky are among those and were | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
nominated by the Rotary Club of Cardiff East. They received their | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
joint aboard a local community radio to give support to 600 other | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
youngsters who are in a similar situation in the area. We have a | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
jam-packed share. This will be tight. Christopher-John Nation and | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
Becki Holder take to the airwaves were their weekly show on Radio | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Cardiff. Those present a young carers showed during carers Week in | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
June. Their aim is to raise awareness about the situation young | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
carers find themselves in. How much time do spend a day on Twitter? | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
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a lot. CJ became a young carer at the age of six. It has been really | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
difficult. No one wants to have their child looking after them. I | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
like to think it is like being a parent. It comes with a lot of | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
response are billeted. It is a big responsibility. -- a lot of | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
responsibility. We are in a situation which makes us more | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
grown-up than average people our age. Everything my mum would think | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
about. Everything she is under pressure with his in the back of my | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
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mind as well. 14-year-old Becki Holder cares for her brother, he is | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
autistic. It is difficult sometimes. I can go mad but I can only go so | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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far in case I have to come back to hope. -- go out. It is hard at | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
times but it is worth it. I love him to pieces. He is adorable. | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
CJ and Becki Holder are members of the Cardiff and Vale Young Carers | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
Interact Club. It supports more than 600 young carers in the local | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
area. CJ and Becky hope that others will listen to their message so | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
there is more understanding and they can improve the lives of other | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
young carers. They are here with me now. Congratulations to both of you. | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Let's talk about life as a young carer. How difficult is that | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
reality? Every young care has a different situation to deal with. I | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
cannot speak for anyone else. I had been in my situation since it was | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
really young. I'm getting used to it. The most difficult part of | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
being a young carer is the transition. It can be very | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
difficult changing from being what you think is normal. A charge with | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
no responsibilities to a chart with loads of responsibilities. -- ate a | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
child. Does it take a toll on your life? It does in some senses. Ethan | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
is my brother. It is normal. It can restrict where ago. If I want to go | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
out, I will only go so far in case I have to come back. It is about | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
being a pair before you are ready. Awareness is really key. -- at a | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
parent. I need to keep Ethan safe. It must be quite isolating. That is | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
where you have done really good work. The radio show has helped to | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
raise awareness. The Interact club is the place where young carers | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
gather to socialise with each other. We get along better and can | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
socialise more easily. It is about a bit young people meeting others | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
in that situation and realising it is OK to feel like this and feel | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
fed up. If you talk to your friends that are not young carers, it is | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
like they do not understand. It is about knowing they are there and | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
they understand. What do you want to do moving forward from here? Is | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
there more good work to be done? want to keep up what I'm doing. | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
Would like to have a pee and carers doing the same thing. -- I would | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
like to help other young carers are doing the same thing. What message | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
which you had to others who are finding it tough going? I would say, | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
keep up the good work. I do not know really. Try not to feel that | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
you are alone. It deals with isolation as well. It helped us a | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
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Our next winner was called an excellent role model by her | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Roderick up all coaster for the. It is one of the many reasons billy | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
Milton is receiving this award, after she had involvement in | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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Ecuador's epic project. She has managed to turn her life around | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
after difficulty. She has developed and blossomed remarkably. She keen | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
ear when she was 10. Her mother had just been diagnosed with breast | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
cancer and then sadly died soon after that. Our dad got lost in | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
drug addiction and ended up in prison, so she was really on her | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
own. The family split up and went off to live with different | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
relatives. We were a great support to her and that is why she has put | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
so much into the project, because it she recognised how much it did | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
for her. I was in the project since my mum died. I was quite a violent | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
person. I did not make friends a lot, because I was really angry all | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
the time, but here, it was a safe environment to make friends and try | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
and be like everyone else, rather than excluding myself. I now feel | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
confident to stand up with everyone else and say, Harlow, how are you? | :17:12. | :17:21. | |
Billy has been a youth volunteer with the project since she was 16. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
They were selected to sing in the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
Games, and she was one of there volunteer tutors, who help the | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
children feel confident and be at ease. She is determined to get used | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
her difficult experience as a child to help others. Just knowing from | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
my past how bad it is, how horrible the City reaction is, I do not want | :17:53. | :18:03. | |
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other people to have to go through it. She is here with us now. It has | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
been a difficult journey it for you. How do you think you have changed? | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
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I don't know. I am a lot more easy to get on with and I was. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
mentioned anger. McMaster been difficult to process that as a | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
young person. I used to get into fights, it so I have been to are | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
again -- anger management, to help the stock lashing out, especially | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
at my family. But you have come so far. It was not easy to overcome | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
that. You must be proud of yourself. Yes, but I have done it with | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
everyone around me. But here are the primary reason. Tell us about | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
cheery young life. Obviously very difficult, you lost your mother. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
Yes, my mum died when I was 10 or a couple of days before Christmas, so | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
it was a rubbish Christmas present. But I had my little sister. How did | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
the project help here at the time? I became a member and it was a safe | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
environment, there were people I could talk to, at place where | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
everyone was safe, so we could all talk to each other and make friends. | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
Then I joined in singing. And now you're helping others. How does | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
that feel? It feels good. It is a nice feeling helping others. The | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
children feel they can talk to me more than an adult. You have done | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
so much to be proud of, not least getting this our work. Thank you | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
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for letting us top to year. -- a talk to you. Our final a word goes | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
to a youth forum, a group of youngsters to campaign to get their | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
youth centre opened again after spending cuts. They are nominated | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
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by the Rotary Club of Wantage. love it so much. It is so rewarding, | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
seeing what we're doing but the young people in their area. It is | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
about helping young people grow through the horrible teenage years | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
and grow into young adults, and it's just educating people. That is | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
what we're here for. We're concentrating on getting the young | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
ones up and doing sporty activities. For concentrating on getting them | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
up here, so they're not making trouble elsewhere. The state and | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
says youth workers are here to help teenagers in any way they can. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Teenagers adhere to have fun and teacher youth workers how to do | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
their job. We recruit 16 teenagers every year and realistically, they | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
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all become my ex-boss. I help set up. We have a list of things that | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
that you do, you might be on the coffee bar or in the hall. I did a | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
presentation in front of the county council. Now we're being funded by | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
the school and part of the council. I think everyone in Wantage knows | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
about us, which is good. Especially the younger people. There are a lot | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
of people out there and teenagers who will actively go out and try to | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
it improves the committee, which the media do not focus on. It is to | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
make it to get out and shall we are interested and we can help. | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
seems to be that lots of kids now want to come and join, because they | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
won't be able to set an example to the community. Ross of them are | :22:31. | :22:41. | |
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very very good kids round here. Once stage, we have 13 members of | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
the Union ready to talk to us. Congratulations to all if it and | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
you see, thank you for chatting to us. Tell us about the union, why is | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
it important? The meat once a month and decide what will call on, what | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
activities they will change or at on to the rota. They have the | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
committee's, and Neighbourhood Action Group where we had | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
representatives to talk to the communities people and prove that | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
teenagers are not all bad. It looks a right so much fun. How does it | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
operate? Because you run it yourself as. Yes, we'll meet once a | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
month and through that, we delegate to OPs to each other. We offer | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
advice to young people. Tammy about the work duty in the community. -- | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
tell me about the work you do in the community. Somebody said in | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
that report, nobody knows young people at like young people. That | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
is so true, you can reach out to the community. That is completely | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
true. We tell them they are not all bad and some of us had been helping | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
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out five years. We eat a have a little buddy, who is driving it up. | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
They learn the ways of the Union and they help us. You wear a closed | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
for a short while. How did you get up and running it again? We work | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
close because of cuts, but we campaigned and raised a lot of | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
money. But thanks to it the Academy for helping us to stay open. | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
Congratulate shins to all of you. Thank you far talking to us. Well | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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Congratulations to all this year's winners. Trying us now is the | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
president of motor a International of Great Britain and Northern | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
Ireland. What he make-up what you have seen today? I think it is | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
fantastic. These young people are doing fabulous work. The only | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
challenge for us is to choose the top five. I was wondering about | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
that, how do they choose? Year after year, I am amazed. Howard you | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
pick the winners? It is one of the most difficult jobs. Does it get | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
heated? Sometimes. We are very grateful to the BBC for its | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
supporting this project. Do you think this is an important part of | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
the work you do in this country? The it is a very important part. Be | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
have the biggest non-governmental education project in the world, | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
from primary school level to postgraduates studies. This is | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
helping to form good citizens and future leaders. Acted very much. | :26:26. | :26:33. |