Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
Budding entrepreneurs make foodbank donation
Coatbridge High mixed budding entrepreneurs with community spirit as the school hosted its S2 youth philanthropy initiative (YPI) final.
The active citizenship programme “raises awareness among young people about philanthropy and their local community”.
Pupils were split into teams to investigate social issues around Coatbridge and find charities that are doing their best to help people with these concerns.
Each team then put forward a presentation to win a £3000 YPI grant for their chosen charity through a unique programme of team work, research and competition.
A school spokesman told the Advertiser: “All of our S2 pupils researched local charities and created a presentation to showcase who their charity is, what they do and what they could do if they won the £3000 grant from YPI.
“Our groups presented their findings in their classes, with their RME teachers, assisted by other members of the humanities department, choosing a group from each class to go forward to our YPI final.
“All of our groups did really well and our judges had a tough job deciding on which was best, with them deliberating for a long time over two of our final groups.
“In the end, our winners were Emily Owen, Manny Power, Jack Harrison and Ava Frankland from 2C1 who chose Coatbridge Foodbank as their charity.
“The winning team then got to visit the foodbank to hand over the cheque to staff, who were delighted to receive such an amazing donation.
“This will make such a massive difference to the local community. Well done to everyone involved.”
YPI Scotland is all about creativity and passion, as well as “leaving the four walls of the classroom behind and supporting the issues you care most about”.
Since it was introduced to Scotland in 2008 by The Wood Foundation, YPI has engaged more than 200,000 young people who have taken responsibility for £4.5 million of charitable giving.