Rotary Young Citizen Award

Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland celebrates the achievements of young people with the annual Rotary Young Citizen Awards. These showcase the citizenship and responsibilities demonstrated by people under the age of 25.

Rotary Young Citizen Awards

Take a look at the 2024 Award winners to be inspired to engage with your local community to find candidates for nomination for the 2025 Rotary Young Citizen Awards.

Work with your public image, membership and direct membership leads to use this as an opportunity to reach out across your entire community.

Anyone can make a nomination but all nominations have to be routed through a Rotary club for them to consider and endorse those they wish to put forward. Rotary clubs can also make their own nominations with no limit on the numbers of nominations that can be made.

Be sure to look at the information available to the public and the further guidance and nomination form for Rotarians in the Members Area. This is not available to the public to ensure they reach out to their local Rotary club. No nominations will be accepted without endorsement by a Rotary club.

As well as the Rotary Young Citizen Awards there are an additional three special categories of award:

Rotary Young Citizen Environmentalist Award
Rotary Young Citizen Peacemaker Award
Rotary Young Citizen Sporting Hero Award

There has been fantastic engagement with the Rotary Young Citizen Awards since its formation in 2007, both within Rotary and externally, as the awards continue to attract significant media interest. We hope that even more of the Rotary community will continue to nominate the outstanding young people in their area and give them the national recognition that they deserve.

Rotary Young Citizen Award

As well as the Rotary Young Citizen Award, there are three special categories of award open for nomination.

Rotary Young Citizen Peacemaker Award

This award reflects on Rotary’s area of focus on Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution, to recognise young people, aged under 25, who have made a significant contribution by building peace and understanding, whether in their school, local community, by for example helping tackle anti-social behaviour and youth crime, perhaps as peer mentors, or with a peace project internationally. Again, nominations can be for an individual or group.

Rotary Young Citizen Sporting Hero Award

The Rotary Young Citizen Sporting Hero Award enables you to recognise and highlight the achievements and contribution, as a positive role model to others, of a sports participant or a group or an individual or group who is enabling others to participate in sport. This gives the chance to nominate someone or a group who has achieved exceptional things in the world of sport, be it able-bodied or disability sport, for example wheelchair sport. The criteria for this award are:

Aged 25 years of age or under.
Open to an individual or group.
Must have made a positive social impact on a community through action, and be a positive role model for others.
Must be able to demonstrate the importance of sport in transforming their life and/or other lives.
Sports participant(s) nominated must have shown a determination, dedication and commitment in their chosen sport(s).

Rotary Young Citizen Environmentalist Award

The Rotary Young Citizen Environmentalist Award is a new award, reflecting Rotary’s new area of focus on the Environment, to recognise young people, aged under 25, an individual or group, who are passionate about protecting the environment.

Meet 2024's amazing winners here

2025 Young Citizen Nominations

Nominations must be submitted to Andy Smith at cds@rotarygbi.org by Friday, 7th February 2024. Please download the information pack and nomination form from the resources section below.

A list of all nominations received will appear on https://rotarygbi.org/members/young-citizen-awards/. If your nomination is not listed, please contact Andy Smith at cds@rotarygbi.org immediately.

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Rotary Young Citizen Award

Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland celebrates the achievements of young people with the annual Rotary Young Citizen Awards. These showcase the citizenship and responsibilities demonstrated by people under the age of 25.