The Mentor CHAMP Awards

Achievements 2006 - 2010

“As soon as Mentor gave us the Award we were getting emails from around the country. The impact on Kirklees has been massive… If we can get some meaningful evaluation it will be fantastic”

Aims

• To support the provision of effective alcohol misuse prevention projects for children (14 years or under)

• To promote healthy attitudes and behaviours in children

• To give public recognition for excellence in alcohol misuse prevention

• To disseminate effective practice in alcohol misuse prevention

Achievements

80,000 young people reached through six winning projects – three further winners will be announced in November 2010

£90k cash awards to 9 projects

Up to £90k worth of consultative support to nine winning projects

36 projects shortlisted as finalists from schools, community and young people led projects from across Great Britain

CHAMP Winners – 2006 & 2008

2006 The Greater Easterhouse Alcohol

Awareness Project, GlasgowSchools category

Time for Me, Halesowen, West MidlandsCommunities category

 

Hook County Primary School, Pembrokeshire, WalesYoung People’s Involvement category

2008 Adolescents Anonymous, Kirklees

Schools category

  P.A.R.T.Y, Youth Alive, Dumfries

Communities category

  LookOut Alcohol, Lancashire

Young People’s Involvement category

“Since winning the award we have expanded our work from 20 to 41 primary schools across the city and are receiving requests from other areas. We can’t overestimate the impact of winning the award”

Achievements

As a direct result of winning a CHAMP Award:– GEAAP has expanded from delivering in 38 to 100 primary

schools. “This is a direct result of winning an award”. Ten individuals from other organisations have also been

trained to deliver the programme. – Hook have been asked to present the project to seventy four

other schools in Pembrokeshire– LookOut alcohol’s website has now been adopted by

Lancashire Young People’s Service and Lancashire Constabulary as their main alcohol misuse prevention tool

– PARTY, Youth Alive, through consultancy support, has been able to raise more than £50,000 which has secured the medium term viability of the project.

Achievements

“I don’t know how we would have paid for what we did. It kept us going – it meant we could pay our bills.”

“The evaluation would not have gone ahead without this money (from the CHAMP Awards)”

Achievements

Achievements

Independent evaluation commissioned for each winning project:

“It helps us to move forward. It will reinforce what we do well and help us to see what we could improve. The external evaluation will give external support to what we do – it is an added push”.

Achievements

Substantial national, regional and local media coverage– The Guardian, The

Times, The Daily Mail, Hello, Alcohol Concern, Home Office website

Achievements

Publication of ‘First Measures’ handbook. – a pioneering guide for those working in alcohol

misuse prevention with children and young people

– sent to 2500 health and educational organisations

– downloaded from the website over 3,000 times

“My colleagues and I found First Measures to be a very good simple description of what works well in primary school education” – (Senior Manager, national drug education charity)

Achievements

CHAMP website (www.champawards.org.uk)

– platform to showcase the winning projects

– Hub for information and resources that alcohol projects say they need

– Practical advice on fundraising and evaluation

– Training and resources

Achievements

“There’s a sense of pride within the group when anyone talks about the award. It is certainly an award that hits the nail on the head, thank you for allowing us to share the work we do.”Award winner