Category: Youth

Are you a young musician? Do you want the chance to perform in front of an audience and get feedback from experienced judges? The Rotary Young Musician competition will be held at Wolverhampton Music School at 2:30pm on Sunday 5th February. Any amateur young musician can enter providing you’re in full time education and no older than 18 on 31st August 2022.

You’ll need to sing or play two contrasting pieces of any style and your programme mustn’t be longer than 10 minutes. You can be an instrumentalist or vocalist of any level, and you can enter individually or through your music teacher. You’ll be performing in front of experienced judges who will be giving supportive feedback to help you develop – and you might win!

You can find the full Information Pack here and download the Entry Form here. 

Entries should be emailed to youth@tettenhallrotray.org.uk – the deadline for entries is Friday 16th December.

The deadline for nominating young people for The Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the year Rotary awards is 31st July. 

If you know a young person between the ages of 13 and 25 who deserves to be recognised for their kindness, volunteering or service to their school, community or local organisation, please go to www.wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.org.uk to nominate them

Finalists will be selected in August and invited to the awards ceremony on 15th September hosted in the Civic Suite by the Mayor, Cllr. Sandra Samuels who is one of the judges. Many of those who are not selected as finalists, but who have made a significant contributions to their community, will receive certificates of commendation’ signed by the Mayor. 

Awards will be given in two age categories : 13 – 18 and 19 – 25.  

These awards are devised and are sponsored by the four Rotary Clubs in the City and organised in partnership with the City Council, The Express and Star, Wolverhampton Wanderers Foundation and supported by Carvers Building Supplies Ltd. and the James Beattie Charitable Trust.

Nominations are now open for the Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the Year awards 2022, which recognise the achievements of young people who have gone the extra mile to help others in our community.

Awards will be made to 13 to 18-year-olds and to those aged 19 to 25 who live, learn or work in Wolverhampton.

Parwiz Karimi, Karl Henry, Roger Timbrell, Mel Eves and Dylan Wright

Karl Henry, former captain of Wolves and ambassador for the Wolves Foundation, and former Wolves player Mel Eves are supporting the awards and are keen to encourage people in the city to recognise young people who have helped others or their community during the pandemic.

Nominations can be made by visiting wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.org.uk. The closing date is on May 31st and the awards ceremony will be held on July 7th 

The awards were devised and are sponsored by the City’s four Rotary Clubs and are organised in partnership with the City Council, the Express and Star, Wolverhampton Wanderers Foundation and supported by Carvers Building Supplies Ltd and the James Beattie Trust.

 If you know a young person who has helped others during the pandemic or done something in their community, school, college or work place that deserves to be recognised The Repair Shop presenter Jay Blades​ wants you to nominate them for a Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the Year Award.

Its simple to nominate someone online – so if you know a young person who lives, goes to school or works in Wolverhampton and is aged between 13 and 25 who has gone that extra mile to help others visit www.wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.org.uk now and tell us their story.

It’s all change for the Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the year Awards 2021 which have been extended to add a new award for young people aged between 19 and 25 as well as retaining the existing awards for 13 to 18 year olds.

So if you know a young person who has gone the extra mile – whose personal courage, care for others, achievement or contribution to the community should be recognised and celebrated now’s the time to nominate them for a Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the Year Award.

These awards were devised and are sponsored by the five Rotary Clubs in the city and organised in partnership with the Wolverhampton City Council, The Express & Star, Wolverhampton Wanderers Foundation and supported by Carvers Building Supplies and the James Beattie Trust.

Anyone can nominate by visiting the Young Citizen website www.wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.org.uk

Nominations are close on 31 May and subject to Covid 19 restrictions the awards ceremony will be held early in July.

The Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the Year awards recognises the achievements of young people aged between 13 and 19 living, studying or working within the City who go the extra mile and whose personal courage, achievement or contribution to the community should be recognised and celebrate.

The Award is run by the City’s five Rotary Clubs and is dedicated to Tom Warren, a Wolverhampton Rotarian who become only the second Briton ever to lead Rotary International.

In view of the prolonged Corona Virus emergency we’ve had to take the difficult decision to cancel this years competition.

All nominations that have been received will be carried forward to next year’s competition when their good citizenship achievements will be recognised in 2021.

Know a young person who has gone the extra mile – whose personal courage, achievement or contribution to the community should be recognised and celebrated?

Then it’s time to nominate them for a Wolverhampton Young Citizen of the Year Award?

Nominations can be made by family members, friends, teachers, youth leaders and other professionals, employers or anyone who has recognised the achievements of the young person.

The award will be made to a young person who is over the age of 13 on 1 January 2019 and under the age of 19 on 31 August 2019, who is living, studying or working within Wolverhampton City boundaries.

Collect a nomination form the Waitrose & Partners store on Penn Road in Wolverhampton or complete it online at http://wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.org.uk/

The closing date for nominations is the 31 May 2019.

Do you know someone who has gone the extra mile to help others?  If so, why not nominate them for the 2019 Young Citizen Awards? We are looking for young people who live, work, or go to school in Wolverhampton who are over the age of 13 on 1st January and under the age of 19 on 31st. August whose personal commitment  to others, their school, voluntary organisations, a charity or voluntary groups or whose contribution to the community, deserve to be recognised and celebrated.

The awards are sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Bilston, Wednesfield, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton and Wolverhampton St. Georges in partnership with Wolverhampton City Council, The Express and Star, Waitrose, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and the Way Youth Zone.

Nominations are invited following the launched on 1st March 2019 and the closing date will be 31st May.  Family members, teachers, employers or anyone who has recognised the achievement of a young person can nominate them on line at www.wolverhamptonyoungcitizen.co.uk or by post on forms which can be downloaded from the website or collected from the Customer Service Desk at Waitrose Wolverhampton now.

The awards ceremony will be held in the Mayoral Suite, Wolverhampton City Council on 4th July 2019.