Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex and Forfar, met younger folks from throughout North Lanarkshire collaborating within the Duke of Edinburgh Awards final week.
The go to came about on the Ravenscraig Regional Sports activities Facility in Motherwell final Thursday, June 30.
Round 60 younger folks had been current on the occasion, the place they demonstrated a variety of actions together with musical orienteering, first-aid, video games, tenting and outside cooking.
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The Earl of Wessex, a Trustee of the awards and a Gold Award holder, visited North Lanarkshire because it has one of many strongest community-based Duke of Edinburgh Awards exercise in Scotland.
Liz Fergus, neighborhood studying & youth work supervisor, mentioned: “The Earl of Wessex and Forfar was genuinely occupied with our strategy to delivering the programme and the methods during which we help our younger folks. His Royal Highness requested us concerning the challenges we confronted in holding the programmes going all through the pandemic.
“The Earl additionally congratulated us on our latest success in successful the Youthwork Workforce of the Yr on the Youth Hyperlink Awards.”
Previously two years in North Lanarkshire there have been 363 new younger folks collaborating within the awards programme and there have been 145 full awards achieved.
The council is dedicated to eradicating any obstacles to participation within the award that younger folks face, reminiscent of price, gear and transport. Younger folks aren’t charged for collaborating within the awards programme in North Lanarkshire.
Laiba Khan, a pupil at Braidhurst Excessive College who has lately accomplished her bronze award and is now going for silver, mentioned: “The Earl requested us concerning the video games we had been collaborating in and in the event that they had been very aggressive!”
Shiza Ali, a pupil at Taylor Excessive College, added: “The Earl requested us how we loved collaborating within the bronze award and if we had been having fun with the expeditions.”
One other group of pupils had been in a position to share their experiences of an in a single day canoeing expedition on Loch Lomond and of tenting on one of many islands on the loch.
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