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Service Children Awards Cymru 2023

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Service Children Awards Cymru 2023

October 2023

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.

Nominees

The winners of each category are:

*Click the links to hear how the winners felt to be a finalists in the Service children awards 2023.

Contribution to Sport under 11 

Gold – Jack Woodhouse
Silver – Ollie Evans
Bronze – Harry Moore
Bronze - Freddie Scott

 

Contribution to Sport over 11

Gold – Mollie Bastock
Silver – Luke Woodhouse
Bronze – Bleddyn Gibbs

 

Service children ambassador of the year

Gold – Riley Barn
Silver – Beth Symmons
Bronze – Lyla McGuinness

 

Community award under 11

Gold – Samridhi Gurung
Silver – Sion Woodhouse
Bronze – Faith Lees
Bronze – Arushi Rai

 

Community award over 11

Gold – Luke Woodhouse
Silver – Cari Jarvis
Bronze – William Grant

 

Unsung hero award

Gold –Shan Kenchington (Mount Street Infants School)
Silver – Delyth Marshman / Tara Rana (Mount Street Infants School)
Bronze – Sarah Hayward (Ysgol Pen y Bryn)

 

The winner of the overall #ServiceChildrenAwards Champion was Riley Barn.

Well done Riley very well deserved!

 

Armed Forces Friendly School Cymru - Gold schools

Presented to:

Mount Street Infants School, Powys

Ysgol Pen y Bryn, Conwy

Haverfordwest High School, Pembrokeshire

 

 

Interviews

 

Back

Service children’s quotes

"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

"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

"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’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."

Dan