Yorkshire’s Olympic and Paralympic medallists, a top-class footballer, a talented actress and a teenager raising awareness of brain injury in sport were among the young people honoured at the 2016 Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards in front of more than 400...
Fantastic news that the winners at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year event included no fewer than three of our own Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards holders!Rugby league legend Kevin Sinfield, who won the Achievement in Sport Award in 2007, was runner-up to winner...
The winners of the 2015 Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards were revealed to hundreds of guests at Leeds United’s Centenary Pavilion last night (19 November), with winners from across the region. Personality of the Year went to eight-old Doncaster boy, Bailey...
A record audience were there to see Yorkshire’s Young Achievers of 2014 revealed last night (20 November) at an Awards ceremony at Leeds United’s Centenary Pavilion. Personality of the Year, presented by the Simon Mackaness of Rudding Park, went to a...
A young Scarborough actress has been helped to achieve her ambition of attending drama school with a grant from the Yorkshire Young Achievers Foundation. Shannon Rewcroft, aged 22, of Scalby Road, knew she wanted to act by the time she was 11 and has now gained a...
An outstanding year for the region’s young people was marked at the 20th Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards, sponsored by McCormicks Solicitors of Harrogate, last night (Thursday 29 November). The Personality of the Year Award at the gala dinner at Leeds United’s...
