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Sep 19, 2010
We have been short-listed for the Arts and Cultural Award of the CYPN Awards 2010
Category: News | Posted by: stevet
SNYA Radio, South Norfolk’s number one youth radio station has been short-listed in the Arts and Cultural Award category of the Children and Young People Now Awards 2010.
Now in their fifth year, the 2010 awards will be presented in London on 18th November.
Ravi Chandiramani, Editor, Children and Young People Now said ‘whether it is work with teenage or adolesence, to keep them safe or to help them achieve, these awards are about the future of our society. At CYP Now, we recognise that so much wonderful work goes on with children, young people and their families’ day in, day out that goes unnoticed. Our Awards exist to put this right. Not only do they provide a tremendous sense of pride and recognition for organisations, projects and individuals – they also give ideas and inspiration to the children and young people’s sector at large.
The arts and culture award (sponsored by Creativity, Culture & Education) is awarded for the initiative that has done the most to inspire children and young people in cultural activities, such as music, dance, drama or the visual arts, especially among disadvantaged groups, and where innovative collaboration is shown between children’s services, the cultural sector and children and young people.
Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) aims to transform the lives of children and families though creative learning and cultural opportunity. CCE’s vision is for children’s creativity to be encouraged in and out of school and for all children to experience and access the diverse range of cultural activity in England because these opportunities can dramatically improve their life chances. CCE’s thinking is based on the premise that exposure to the arts and culture can raise aspirations, achievement and skills of young people.
SNYA Radio started in November2008 with the first music track being broadcast one year later by Josh Worley, Station Manager, from our Long Stratton studios.
Since then SNYA radio has travelled many miles across Norfolk, from Kings Lynn to Thetford, as well as many other towns and villages around South Norfolk. We have been working with girl groups, youth clubs, young people in care, young carers, those people not in education, employment or training as well as mainstream young people. Our programme schedule is diverse dealing with issues such as teenage pregnancy, popular music and radio plays.
SNYA Radio brings together a rurally isolated community by working with a group of sixty-four young people. We offer work experience to Creative Media students, visit schools with school radio and we have helped raise in excess of £10,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust and Lynn’s run for life. SNYA Radio regularly works in partnership with Norfolk County Council, South Norfolk Council, Norfolk Constabulary, South Norfolk Alliance, City College and Norwich Theatre Royal.
Stephen Thomas, SNYA Radio Co-ordinator, said, “we have won several local and regional awards since we started the project but being short-listed for The Children and Young People Now Award’s - The Arts and Cultural Award is the first national recognition we have received. This is fantastic morale boost for the young people who all work so hard to bring their listeners quality radio programmes. However, the immediate challenge is to find enough money to take the young people to London to collect the award, should we be successful in this category”.
Cllr. Jenny Wilby, Young People's Champion at South Norfolk Council said "This is another extraordinary milestone for young people in South Norfolk and we are proud to have been able to play our part by finding a broadcast base for this station. We wish them success and the national recognition they deserve."
Alison Thomas, Norfolk County Council Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and county councillor for Long Stratton division, said: “I would like to send my congratulations to the young people of SNYA, who deserve this recognition for their hard work in getting the radio station off the ground.
“I was involved with Josh Worley the station manager at the beginning when he approached me for help as his local member and was delighted to be able to help support the set-up of the station. I have seen first hand the drive and determination of these youngsters and I wish them luck at the awards ceremony. I am thrilled to see what a success it has become – these young people are doing the county and their peers proud.”
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