Had a great evening yesterday attending the YMCA National Youth Matters Awards at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on the Mall in London. Our Chief Guests were The Arch Bishop of York, Dr John Sentamu and Colin Williams the Great Great Great Grandson of our founder Sir George Williams.
The Awards are to recognise the work and achievements of local YMCA’s and Young People from within the English YMCA Movement.
One of our Blog Authors, reporting last week from Berlin, Andre Kpodonu from City YMCA London won the YMCA Global Links Award, absolutely fantastic, well done Andre, one of the other finalist was another Blog Author, Jack Ahern who blogged from the Czech Republic recently. Well Done guy. Congratulations also to Charlotte Mitchell from Chelmsford YMCA who was the other finalist.
I am spending today finalising plans for a visit to the USA. I will be attending the ‘Building Global Community Together’ in San Francisco over the next four days. This conference I organised by the National Movements from Mexico, USA and Canada.
I am looking forward to exploring the possibility for young people from England to enage with others across the Movement and I will keep you informed on how things are going during the course of my visit.
That’s all for now.
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