An inspirational West Lothian teenager has been picked from hopefuls from world wide for a £10,000 prize to assist fellow neurodiverse younger folks.
Kaydi Scotsville (15) was awarded the funding by the Ardonagh Neighborhood Belief (ACT), Vivid Future Prize 2022.
The Livingston teen gained the Your Neighborhood class for her Diversified charity.
Diversified started as a platform that might promote reasonably priced sensory toys earlier than it grew to become a fully-fledged charity that has on-line and face-to-face programmes that assist neurodiverse teenagers and their households discover help.
When Kaydi initially left college at 14, it was extremely robust, and he or she felt very remoted.
However Kaydi used her personal expertise and the affect of getting to spend day trip of college when she wasn’t capable of get the help she wanted, to assist different neurodiverse younger folks and their households have a unique journey. She determined to make use of her expertise to create change, which is when she arrange her non-profit, Diversified.
Her brilliant concept focussed on growing her non-profit, Diversified. Diversified began out as a platform to promote reasonably priced sensory toys and become a fully-fledged charity that has on-line and face-to-face programmes to assist neurodiverse youngsters and their households to entry help. Extra not too long ago it’s additionally supplied a day service to assist teenagers not capable of attend college.
Now she’s on observe to ascertain a bodily dwelling for Diversified within the city of Livingston, in order that its providers could be accessed by much more younger folks and their households.
Kaydi stated: “I’m simply so tremendous excited for all of the younger those that Diversified helps.
“Profitable the Vivid Future Prize goes to assist us to have our personal constructing that may be their secure place the place they are often themselves and have alternatives like everybody else.
“With the best help, neurodivergent younger folks can obtain actually unimaginable issues and I hope that Diversified will allow them to do this.
“Nicely executed to everybody who took half within the Vivid Future Prize, they're all superior!
“Younger folks have a lot to provide and I’m actually comfortable that the Vivid Future Prize exists to have the ability to present that.”
Now in its second yr, The Vivid Future Prize goals to empower younger folks aged 13-19 to develop into the subsequent technology of neighborhood leaders by funding their brilliant concepts that can make a distinction to their chosen trigger.
This yr, £40,000 was awarded to winners over 4 classes, every linked to a unique manner younger folks might help spark a optimistic change on the earth round them.
ACT Trustee and former Irish and British Lions Rugby Captain, Rory Greatest stated: “It’s been an enormous honour to pick out the winners of this yr’s Vivid Future Prize. “The entire finalists had unimaginable concepts – and I used to be impressed by their drive to make use of their very own experiences and keenness to provide again to others and make a distinction.
“I’m certain all our finalists will encourage many extra younger folks to get entangled within the communities that matter to them. Myself, and the remainder of ACT’s Trustees can’t wait to see how our winners use the funding to make their concepts occur!”
The Vivid Future Prize was impressed by Freddie Williams, the son of Ardonagh worker David and his spouse Sarah who was recognized with a uncommon type of bone most cancers on the age of seven. When Freddie died, the contents of his cash field have been donated to ACT to assist ‘the subsequent poorly little one’. This straightforward gesture led to the thought of the Vivid Future Prize, to help younger folks to make a optimistic affect – and as a part of Freddie’s continued legacy, David and Sarah assist the ACT Trustees to pick out its Vivid Future Prize winners.
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