Young Achievers Award
Community

The third theme of the Young Achievers Award is Community. Time to give something back!
To earn your third pin badge, you need to complete 3 tasks contributing to your local community between July and September. For each theme you will find there is one activity that has been set by VICTA that you need to complete. The other two activities are your choice.

The set VICTA community activity you are required to complete is…
Show an act of kindness to someone in your local community
Show us how you’ve made someone smile. It could be: growing your own vegetables and giving them to your neighbours or a food bank, inviting a new friend to play with you at break time or sending thank you notes to people that have been kind to you.
Other Community activity ideas to tick off to earn your pin badge!
We’ve put together some activity ideas and opportunities for the Community theme below to help you get started. Don’t forget, if you’d like to come up with your own ideas, that’s brilliant too. Once you have completed 3 tasks, complete the evidence submission form at the bottom of this page so we can see what you’ve been up to.
Terms and conditions
- The Young Achievers Award is open to children who are following a primary school curriculum who are registered or are registrable as blind or partially sighted as per our requirements for support; you may be asked to provide supporting documentation of your child’s vision impairment. Any questions regarding eligibility, please contact students@victa.org.uk
- Entrants must be permanent residents of the UK
- For each theme, entrants must complete three activities – one set by VICTA and two of their choice
- Evidence submission must be completed by a parent/carer
- By submitting evidence for the award, you agree to your photos/videos, your child’s name and age being used by VICTA, including being displayed on the VICTA website, on our social media channels and on charity emails
- Please note, the actual badges and medal you receive might differ to the ones in the illustrations. The illustrations represent the first set of badges and medals to collect.
Does your Young Achiever have a sibling that does the award alongside them? We’d like to recognise all those Super Siblings out there – we know you work just as hard as your brother or sister. When you submit your activities, make sure to pop the name of your Super Sibling on the form and we’ll celebrate them with their very own set of pin badges and once all badges have been collected, a very special Super Sibling medal!
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