Interesting Times!: Two highly commended and yet another Award!

Friday 27 November 2009

Two highly commended and yet another Award!

This evening I attended the fourth Local Government Yorkshire and Humber 'Making a Difference' Awards at the Royal Armouries....

The Awards celebrate the achievements of local authorities across the region and recognise the hard work and commitment of teams and individuals across councils, police, fire service and national park authorities. There were 165 submissions across ten categories and 46 were shortlisted. There were eleven nominations altogether from Leeds and it is brilliant that four of these came from Education Leeds!

Our four nominations were:

Leeds Local Education Partnership in the 'Transforming through Efficiency' category;
Be Smart: Use a Condom in the 'Making Connections' category;
Spirit Alive in the 'Building Cultural Spaces' category;
VI team in tthe 'Outstanding Contribution' category.

And we achieved highly commended for:

Leeds Local Education Partnership in the 'Transforming through Efficiency' category;
Be Smart: Use a Condom in the 'Making Connections' category.

And the fantastic news was that the talented, brilliant, gorgeous and wonderful VI team won the 'Outstanding Contribution' category!

Here's the whole team at our awards evening earlier this term.. talented, brilliant, gorgeous and wondeful!

It was a fantastic evening for Leeds with Paul Rogerson receiving a special award for his contribution to the leadership of the Yorkshire and the Humber region and Leeds winning the award for the authority that has made the most difference in terms of leadership and contribution to the development of Local Government in Yorkshire and Humber. Leeds was also highly commended for the Leeds Independent Living Project, the Children and Young Peoples' Participation Unit, the Breeze International Youth Festival International School Partnerships and won the Building Cultural Spaces award for Leeds City Museum's work on building community partnerships.

The evening's entertainment was provided by The Nightjars who were fantastic and by my old friend and ex-colleague Gervase Phinn who was his usual brilliant self and had everyone laughing so much that they were reduced to tears. All in all it was a great night for Leeds and Education Leeds.

Chris

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