:00:00. > :00:00.Now on BBC News: Young people from across the UK have been
:00:00. > :00:00.honoured for making exceptional contributions to their communities
:00:00. > :00:07.at the annual Rotary Young Citizen Awards.
:00:08. > :00:14.Laura Trant has been looking at the highlights.
:00:15. > :00:27.Bray Street International is one of the largest voluntary organisations,
:00:28. > :00:36.founded in America to support friendship and philanthropy. Here
:00:37. > :00:44.are some of the young people who have inspiring stories. The first
:00:45. > :00:50.wall went to Owen Thurston, who is 17. He was nominated by the Rotary
:00:51. > :00:57.Club of Oxted. From the age of five, Owen has suffered repeated sieges D2
:00:58. > :01:06.epilepsy. I've had epilepsy for over ten years now. I want to make a
:01:07. > :01:11.difference to other people, unattached to young epilepsy, who I
:01:12. > :01:14.fundraiser for, because there are others who suffer worse than I do.
:01:15. > :01:19.What difference a year making to their lives as well as yours? I
:01:20. > :01:29.raise awareness and money for the condition. Hopefully, even if you
:01:30. > :01:34.don't -- even if you have epilepsy, you don't have two Hideaway, you
:01:35. > :01:40.can't be judged. You shouldn't be defined by your condition, so I hope
:01:41. > :01:47.I'm making a difference to those people's lives. I'm here to speak
:01:48. > :01:53.about Young Epilepsy. Owen is often seen dressing up to raise awareness
:01:54. > :02:00.about the condition. He has also chosen to let his family film his
:02:01. > :02:03.seizures. It's difficult having a camera pointing at your son when he
:02:04. > :02:13.is on the floor, completely unaware of the situation. It's very
:02:14. > :02:17.difficult. Others must look at me thinking, why aren't you helping
:02:18. > :02:23.your son? That this is for a diagnosis and a diagnosis what
:02:24. > :02:27.others as well. I win has raised thousands for the charity young
:02:28. > :02:37.epilepsy, and become a young epilepsy Ambassador dedicated to
:02:38. > :02:43.helping people. The next wars went to Bailey Sloan, who will be nine
:02:44. > :02:53.next month. -- award. How do you feel? Happy. Excited. He was
:02:54. > :03:02.nominated by Barry, Bailey is making an impact on his hometown, Barry, in
:03:03. > :03:07.Wales. My name is Bailey Sloan and I've been doing random acts of
:03:08. > :03:15.kindness for people in the town centre. Free higher - fives for
:03:16. > :03:24.everyone! I love doing high-fives. Being kind is one of the things I
:03:25. > :03:31.love to do. I'm Lisa, Bailey's mums. -- ma'am. We are handing out high-
:03:32. > :03:36.fives we are trying to do this for random acts of kindness. I've been
:03:37. > :03:41.giving roses to ladies, but I don't have one at the moment. I was
:03:42. > :03:46.handing out cards. I given one to the police. Bailey has taken
:03:47. > :03:51.kindness on as part of his identity now, though it's part of his life.
:03:52. > :03:57.Everywhere we go, he is looking to help out. He's getting along with
:03:58. > :04:02.people much better now. Bailey has ADHD and is on the artistic spectrum
:04:03. > :04:09.will stop with the help of his mum, Lisa, he's carried out, first of
:04:10. > :04:13.all, 100, 200 and now is aiming for 300 random acts of kindness and is
:04:14. > :04:21.making complete strangers smile was --. Ball gestures. He'd growl at
:04:22. > :04:25.strangers. He knew they were strangers, so he wasn't very happy.
:04:26. > :04:30.He might scream and run away. When he was young, he could be
:04:31. > :04:33.aggressive. It makes a huge difference because people are able
:04:34. > :04:41.to welcome him, basically, and to get along with him and it's much
:04:42. > :04:58.easier for him to mix with others. High Bailey! -- high five, Bailey!
:04:59. > :05:11.Anna Swabey was diagnosed with a Umma range, she was told it was
:05:12. > :05:16.terminal and it widths mangy Annie had three years to live. I decided
:05:17. > :05:20.that if I had got three years to lives then I wanted to make the most
:05:21. > :05:25.out of every second and wanted to make a mark on the world. I wanted
:05:26. > :05:29.to make a difference. Anna decided to turn her negative situation into
:05:30. > :05:33.a positive one and do all she could to support others with the same
:05:34. > :05:39.condition. So far, she has raised more than ?50,000. Anna, it's
:05:40. > :05:45.wonderful to be able to come here and present you with this trophy.
:05:46. > :05:49.She was nominated by Newton Aycliffe and had to accept the award last
:05:50. > :05:56.week. She planned to take part in the Paris Marathon. I'm sorry can't
:05:57. > :05:59.be a conference today. I'm currently here in Paris. Sadly, she hasn't
:06:00. > :06:05.been well enough, but 12 of her friends are taking part, and she's
:06:06. > :06:10.there with them. We are raising funds for the Brain Tumour Research
:06:11. > :06:14.campaign. I want a massive thank you to the award. I'm so honoured to
:06:15. > :06:21.have one, and I'd like to extend that banks to the Newton Aycliffe
:06:22. > :06:28.Rotary Club, who have incredibly sponsored my running friends. The
:06:29. > :06:36.running best. We have some of them here. As I have said, we've got 12
:06:37. > :06:40.runners and 13 people in our support team. We have banners and we are
:06:41. > :06:53.already to go for Sunday. I'm sorry I can't be with you and thank you
:06:54. > :06:59.very much. 11-year-old Madison Glinski has become a familiar sight,
:07:00. > :07:03.asking with her piling in her local town, St Ives, in Cornwall. Madison
:07:04. > :07:09.came up with the idea to raise funds for a local children's Hospice, two
:07:10. > :07:17.years ago, after making a New Year's revolution -- resolution. Over the
:07:18. > :07:23.past two years I've raised ?52,600. My next target is 75000 and I want
:07:24. > :07:32.to keep it going as long as I can. Amazing, what she has done. A
:07:33. > :07:37.fantastic target -- target. Amazing supporting this girl raising so much
:07:38. > :07:44.money for children's charity. Green-mac it's for a good cause, so
:07:45. > :07:50.yeah, well done. Congratulations, Madison. She was nominated by the
:07:51. > :07:57.Rotary Club of St Ives. I've been busking on the streets of St Ives to
:07:58. > :08:03.raise money for the harbour Hospice. I wanted to use my music to help
:08:04. > :08:08.others. I think it is helping other people. I think it will make a big
:08:09. > :08:14.difference to children and families and their lives, it will make their
:08:15. > :08:23.lives better for what they've got left. I feel proud that little old
:08:24. > :08:24.me from Sun Ives, Cornwall, a distant place, is able to win this,
:08:25. > :08:48.so thank you. Tiverton High School interact club
:08:49. > :08:54.won their award after coming up with novel ways to raise money, like
:08:55. > :09:00.using tarantulas to scare teachers. We wanted to start a club where
:09:01. > :09:03.students could gather with common interests about raising awareness
:09:04. > :09:10.for different charities, raising money for them as well, and enjoying
:09:11. > :09:18.themselves in a praises. Scary, not pleasant at all. I didn't realise I
:09:19. > :09:24.was just a whim! Is it a crab? We had I'm a teacher get me out of it,
:09:25. > :09:30.based on I'm a celebrity... With the teachers at two different
:09:31. > :09:33.challenges, with creepy callee 's -- Rawles. Students paid a pound to get
:09:34. > :09:38.involved and watched their teachers suffer. So you're being cruel to
:09:39. > :09:46.teachers to raise money? Yes. You could say that! Is it H Arantxa Le?
:09:47. > :09:56.Whether the money go and what difference does it make? There are
:09:57. > :10:03.of charities, such as chat, aid for homeless, for people who have lost
:10:04. > :10:16.their houses in our town. We've seen a lot of difference in our town. The
:10:17. > :10:19.community really appreciate it. Finally, head of the Paralympic
:10:20. > :10:26.Games in Riyadh, the new award, Rotary Young Citizen Wheelchair
:10:27. > :10:30.Sports Award went to 20-year-old Scottish wheelchair racer, Samantha
:10:31. > :10:38.Kinghorn. Samantha was nominated for this award by the Rotary Club of
:10:39. > :10:44.dance. It's a supporting -- sporting story of success for the tragic
:10:45. > :10:48.opening chapter. While helping her father clears snow six years ago,
:10:49. > :10:55.she was crushed by a truck and paralyse. I knew I had to jump out a
:10:56. > :11:02.run and I remember counting it out, and thinking, just breed, just
:11:03. > :11:11.brief. I remember running as fast as I could. I fell and slipped into the
:11:12. > :11:16.snow, and I remember one of my town starting to curl, and in my muscles,
:11:17. > :11:22.and I knew that was the last time I would feel my legs again. She's
:11:23. > :11:27.taken on the world on her wheelchair. Notching up golds, and a
:11:28. > :11:34.bronze in the IPC World Championships. Now, she's training
:11:35. > :11:42.for the re-Obama Olympics in 2016. -- reopen. So, you've heard the
:11:43. > :11:47.stories of the winners. All the stories are very different but they
:11:48. > :11:52.do have the same meaning, and that's how we can turn challenges into
:11:53. > :11:56.something positive, and inspire others to make dreams become
:11:57. > :12:08.achievable. Even the smallest things can make the biggest difference.