The Service Children Awards Cymru is brought to you in partnership with Veterans Awards CIC and SSCE Cymru, with support from the Armed Forces in Wales.
In Wales we have a number of Service children that are doing great things within society and have gone above and beyond to excel in their relevant fields. We want to celebrate the Service children who even during the most difficult periods have excelled!
We hope that the Service children who get shortlisted at our awards can tell their story and act as role models for Service children across the UK and we make a series of short videos from our shortlisted finalists giving tips and advice to help other Service children!
Further information available here. The next Service Children Awards Cymru will be in 2025. More information to follow.
On Saturday 28th October 2023, we celebrated the first ever Service Children Awards Cymru. Brought to you by the Veterans Awards CIC, in partnership with SSCE Cymru, sponsored by Powys Council, General Dynamics, YourNorth and Forces Fitness.
The awards ceremony was held at the Infantry Battle School, Brecon, supported by the Army and RAF engagement teams and included music performed by the fantastic band of the Prince of Wales!
Congratulations to all the finalists. We really enjoyed celebrating with you all!!!!
The charity partner for this years Service childrens awards Cymru was the fantastic Little Troopers.
At the event, we also took the opportunity to celebrate the achievement of the schools in Wales who have achieved their Gold Armed Forces Friendly School Cymru status.
See all the photos from the event in the gallery at the bottom of the page.
Many thanks to Little Troopers, the RAF Family Federation and Naval Family Federation for providing some goodies to go in the gift bags that were given to all 30+ children and young people who attended the event.
Gold – Jack Woodhouse
Silver – Ollie Evans
Bronze – Harry Moore
Bronze - Freddie Scott
Gold – Mollie Bastock
Silver – Luke Woodhouse
Bronze – Bleddyn Gibbs
Gold – Riley Barn
Silver – Beth Symmons
Bronze – Lyla McGuinness
Gold – Samridhi Gurung
Silver – Sion Woodhouse
Bronze – Faith Lees
Bronze – Arushi Rai
Presented to:
"As soon as we get used to a house, you get moved - I’ve been to four schools and moved six times."
Aiden
"I lived in Nepal, then we went to Brunei, then Malaysia."
Ashim
"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."
Chloe
"I’m used to moving now and mixing with the children... I’ve done it so many times, it’s just a normal thing now."
Chloe
"It's ok talking over skype and that, but sometimes you just want a hug when Dad is away."
Georgia
"He signed off last week, so he will be done by the end of this year. He’s done 24 years. I find that better because he will be around a lot. He likes watching us playing rugby, so he will get to see us more."
Lewis
"I’ve enjoyed going around to lots of places around the world, it's adventurous and exciting."
Harry
"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."
Ieuan
"My mum got a chalk board and it says how many sleeps on it with chalk, every minute it’s getting closer for him coming home."
Mia
"I don’t want him to get promoted... I want him to get promoted but I don’t want to leave."
Oliver
"I might be going to boarding school so that I don’t change schools every few years."
Ryan
"I've been to seven different schools; I’ve not stayed put in one school long enough."
Shana
"He has been away for six months and he is back for two weeks, then he goes away again."
Sianed
"My parents were in the Army. My mum is a like a nurse and my dad went to the war in Afghanistan. I actually didn’t really know what he was doing so I was like, ‘Cool Dad, go there,’ but then I found out and thought, 'Thank God he came back alive.'"
Sanjog
"I’m going to a new place entirely. They don’t know anything about me and that’s a big restart and that’s really good for me."
Piaras
"I moved to Wales because my dad was posted in the Army. I thought I would get bullied and I was shy when you meet new people, but I made some friends."
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