Success for Ballycastle at Youth Awards

The Awards are organised by the Youth Council for Northern Ireland and supported by the Department of Education.

Corrymeela were named as joint winner of the International Award category for their 'Face to face/faith to faith' project.

Pictured receiving their award from visiting International delegates, in Northern Ireland for a European Citizenship Training course, German, Suzanne Paepcke (far left), Albanian Enika Bushi, who lives in Italy, (2nd right) and compere for the evening Cool FM's Connor Phillips, (far right) are group members (l-r) Michael Redmond, Leah Wortley, Naomi Lynch, Anne-Marie Mallon, Kevin McAleenan and Martina Redpath.

Corrymeela's Face to face/Faith to faith project, for 16 – 18 year olds lasted a year and specialises in dissolving boundaries made by ethnic, religious and social conflict by allowing the 'other side' to meet face to face to help them understand each other through peaceful and proactive ways. The programme is based in Nothern Ireland, Jerusalem, Cape Town and several cities in the USA.

Sunlea Youth Centre, from Ballycastle, were named as runner up in the Innovation Award category for their 'Hey Baby' project.

Pictured receiving their Award and certificate from Cool FM's Connor Phillips (far right) and children from 'Big Deal' in Belfast (front) are (back row – left to right) Sunlea group members Chloe Sweeney, Lauren Campbell, Ashley Sweeney, Tammie-Leigh Lindsay and Collette Wall.

Hey Baby involved 12 young girls aged between 12 – 17 exploring issues around teenage pregnancy. They attended a teenage pregnancy weekend with six real care babies.