On Wednesday, 19th June 2013 representatives from schools the length and breadth of Scotland gathered in Perth for the Youth & Philanthropy Initiative annual event. This was a celebration of a year’s hard work by hundreds of school pupils. Each group present at the event had earned £3000 for their chosen charity.
Among those present were five enterprising young men from Blairgowrie High School whose sterling efforts had culminated in a much needed £3000 boost to the fortunes of the local charity Wisecraft.
John Driscoll, Kieran Matthews, Cole McCulloch, Drew Madoc-Jones and Kenny Watson – all S5 pupils – worked extremely hard in school and in their own time to produce a very impressive presentation which the local judges unanimously thought worthy of the prize.
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While the funds went to charity, the boys – and the many hundreds of pupils across the country who also participated in the Youth & Philanthropy Initiative this year – were rewarded with the event in Perth Concert Hall. Among the speakers were Sir William Wood, Chairman of the Wood Trust which sponsors the YPI programme in Scotland, and Olympic gold medallist Katherine Grainger (both pictured below with our worthy winners).
