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Spirit of London Awards Magazine


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WELCOME!Hello and welcome to the first edition of Spirited, a magazine to

celebrate the achievements of our fantastic SOLA ambassadors,

plus a showcase of the Spirit of London Awards projects and

programmes throughout the year.

After a brilliant 2011 awards show at the Royal Albert Hall we havealready begun planning for the 2012 show, which promises to be

the biggest youth awards show ever held.

This year is an important

year for the capital with

the Queens Jubilee; the

Olympics and the Mayoral

elections. Whilst all eyes

are on London it is

important we showcase

the biggest talent of our

city our young people.

More details of our plans

to come.

Even more important this year is for us to enhance the platform of

empowerment for young people, throughout this year we will be

launching numerous projects initiated by our ambassadors which

we will be reporting on.

I hope you enjoy reading and look forward to hearing from you

Best Wishes

Gary TrowsdaleExecutive Director

Spirit of London Awards

131 Camberwell Road | London | SE5

0207 358 7000 Ext 2112 | [email protected]

www.spiritoflondonawards.com

SPIRIT OF LONDON SCHOOLS WORKSHOP

The Spirit of London

Awards team presented

their Inspired workshop

at Kingsford Community

School, Newham on the16th Jan 2012.

The hour long INSPIRE

session took the format of

a chat-show where

volunteers from the year

9 audience had the

opportunity to interview four SOLA ambassadors about their lives,

how they achieved success and what future plans they had. This

gave the pupils an opportunity to be.... inspired!

SOLA

AMBASSADORS ADAM DEACON J-SOL JESSICA ELLIOT KYLE SIMMONS

The students then had the

opportunity to ask

questions during an

interactive Q&A Panel

Questions from pupils

included progression

routes; role models & the

importance of education

& qualifications

The SOLA INSPIRE workshop is free

to all schools in London. It is aimed

at years 9; 10 & 11

For more information or if you

would like us to come to your

school please email:[email protected]

The Spirit of London Awards

Schools workshop was a great

opportunity for pupils to further

understand that realising their

dreams and ambitions requires

dedication, enthusiasm and total

commitment.

Ms Deslondes Head Teacher
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Ambassadors Christmas BallThanks to a kind donation from Millennium Mayfair Hotel and help from

SOLA Media winner 2011 Bobby Jenkins we were able to host our

annual Christmas ball for the Spirit of London awards ambassadors.

Guests included ambassadors from the last 3 years, Shaun Bailey,

Adam Deacon, Richard Taylor & Christina Ohuruogu. The night endedperfectly with SOLA Ambassador Mizz Camara singing us out!

SOLA AMBASSADORADAM DEACON

The Spirit of London Awards is very

fortunate to have the support of

many celebrities and industry level

professionals who support our work.

One of those is the fantastic BAFTA

Nominated Hackney based actor

Adam Deacon.

Adam has starred in many films and

TV shows, notably Kidulthood and

Adulthood, more recently he directed

his first film Anuvahood.

His involvement in the Spirit of

London Awards has included being an

awards presenter on the night and

attending school visits as part of theInspire project. Adams message of

hard work in following your dreams

to success is a powerful contribution

to young people of the capital which

fits in perfectly with the SOLA ethos.

Adam is a great role model for young

people & we are so pleased he is part

of the SOLA Family.

Please vote for him to win

his BAFTA!!!

Spirit of London Awards are always looking

for positive celebrity & industry level role

models to be part of the team to inspire

young people... for more information

contact Gary

[email protected]
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Diri Creative Nerds

SOLA Media Finalist 2011

Dirijan will be on the panel

for the CR8Net 2012

Conference in April.

He & Sam have been busy

working on developing

numerous websites including

LinkUpTv

Liam aka Ritz Artist

SOLA Music Finalist 2009

Ritz will be performing as a

supporting act to Mavado &

Chipmunk in their April tour.

He also has a gig in February

and is planning on releasing

a new music video soon

Dennis Gyamfi

SOLA Media Winner 2010Dennis and the Endz 2 Endz

team have been working

hard on their 7th

issue of the

magazine. They have also

reported on Dean Attas

poem & the SOLA Inspired

Workshop at

Kingsford School

HYPECommunity Champions 2011

HYPE are commencing a project in

Haringey to tackle the issue of girl

gangs. They are also preparing for

their annual cross postcode

football match which aims to

tackle gang conflict

Jessica Elliot

SOLA Business Winner 2010

Jess has just celebrated the

5th

birthday of her business

JS Dance Company. She has

also been accepted to the

Courvoisier - The Future 500

club.


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SPOTLIGHTDean Atta

Every month we will do a spotlight

article on a SOLA ambassador which is

brought to you by SOLA 2010 Mediawinners Endz2Endz Magazine.

Dean Atta won the Spirit of London Achievement in The Arts Award in 2009

Dean kept himself updated with the progress of the Stephen Lawrence

murder case, on the night of the verdict after watching several TV

documentaries about Stephen, he felt the a high level of mixed emotions

and decided to use his poetry talent to harness his feelings. Sitting up all

night, by 6am his poem titled I am nobodys Ni**a was uploaded via his

iPhone on to the internet.

The poem went viral, attracting thousands of hits within hours, after being

retweeted by the likes of Bashy & David Lammy MP, he was featured in

various national newspapers and SBTV assisted him in creating a video.

The Endz2Endz team joined Dean on set.

Speaking to him he said that Seeing the case onPanorama and that the

last word said to Stephen Lawrence was the n-word was the drive for me

to write this poem. On the day we met with various artists including the

upcoming Clement Marfo, that will be appearing in the influential poets

video. Below there are some behind the scenes photos, with some of theE2E team (myself Mia and Seun).

It was amazing to see so many different artist come together to support

Deans poem turning it into a short film.

The poem is downloadable on iTunes Here for 79p of which Dean is

donating 100% of the proceeds to the Stephen Lawrence Trust.

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Spirit Of London Awards 2011 Fashion Finalist
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As some of you may know, there is an election coming up in May to

vote for the next London Mayor. Research by the Electoral

Commission shows that only 55% of young people between 18-25 areactually registered to vote.

The Spirit of London Awards is founded on the principal of

empowerment and as such the SOLA Ambassadors felt this was an

important issue to address, so we teamed up with Bite the Ballot and

will be running tons of exciting projects to get young people

reengaged in the political process including:

Debating with Mayoral Candidates Opportunities to work on Mayoral Candidates campaigns Workshops on why young people should register Mass signing rallies Vote match interactive software to help people decide Formulating young peoples priorities for the capital.

The Mayoral race is very close according to the polls and the youth

vote could be the deciding factor. Young people have more power

than they realise and we hope this project can highlight that

Seema ChandwaniDirector of Operations: Spirit of London Awards

For more information onYouth Vote London

please [email protected]

KKEEEEPP UUPPThere are so many developments in the Spirit of London

Awards programme and by the 100 SOLA Ambassadors. Tokeep up to date with developments you

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