The Jack Petchey Crystal Awards held at City Hall, London on Friday 2nd October marked the 15th anniversary of the Jack Petchey Foundation and the milestone of having given £100m to youth projects in London and Essex.
To mark the occasion Junior Reds were given a £1,500 award in recognition of their amazing work with young people. Clive Hall-Strutt collected the golden ticket on behalf of the Junior Reds and said. “It gave me great pleasure to receive the award of behalf of the club recognising the excellent efforts of the young people who are amongst the Junior Reds membership. Interestingly of over 2,000 schemes that are running only 150 received these prestigious awards. So well done everyone at Junior Reds.” The plan is to spend the money on new first aids kits for all of our teams.
Jack Petchey CBE said “ I am proud of all the programmes we have been involved in and every single young person who has participated. We aim to help young people believe that “If I think I can, I can, so that whatever their background, they will achieve, they will make positive contributions to society and they will be satisfied in their lives. I am so committed to this that aged 90 I still come to the office every day. It is why we have given £100m to realise this.”
