{"id":46,"date":"2013-04-30T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/?p=46"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:45:00","slug":"youth-legacy-ambassadors-win-environment-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/2013\/04\/30\/youth-legacy-ambassadors-win-environment-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Legacy Ambassadors win Environment Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/Game\/uploads\/sites\/2340\/2013\/04\/YLAs-Shetland-220x220_31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48\" title=\"YLAs-Shetland-220x220_3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/Game\/uploads\/sites\/2340\/2013\/04\/YLAs-Shetland-220x220_31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>Youth Legacy Ambassadors from Shetland have been awarded winners of the Environment Award at the Sunday Mail Yo<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/Game\/uploads\/sites\/2340\/2013\/04\/YLAs-Shetland-220x220_3.jpg\"><\/a>ung Scot Awards 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 12 months, they\u2019ve worked had to promote legacy themes with a particular focus on helping their community become more environmentally responsible and live more sustainably. They have secured over \u00a35,000 of external funding for their project which involves visits to local renewable projects and encouraging local children to stay active.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve also helped secure 420 trees which will be a new feature in their local community and laid a sustainable legacy plaque, which was made by the Cunningsburgh glass recycling business.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Maver, 17, Youth Legacy Ambassador said: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t think we were going to win. It\u2019s completely surreal, I was just shaking. It\u2019s been a wonderful opportunity to talk about what we do. We\u2019re so proud of the work we\u2019ve done and the work we\u2019re continuing to do to make a lasting legacy for the Commonwealth Games in our community. Like the 420 trees we planted , we want our project to continue to grow. This is a chance to thank people from Shetland for their support and tell them how brilliant they\u2019ve been.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth Legacy Ambassadors from Shetland have been awarded winners of the Environment Award at the Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards 2013. Over the past 12 months, they\u2019ve worked had to promote legacy themes with a particular focus on helping their community become more environmentally responsible and live more sustainably. They have secured over \u00a35,000 of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/2013\/04\/30\/youth-legacy-ambassadors-win-environment-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Youth Legacy Ambassadors win Environment Award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7167,6820],"tags":[1345,7223],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-legacy","category-partnership","tag-awards","tag-youth-legacy-ambassadors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}