Search begins now for this year's Moray Young Citizen

Nominations have just opened to find Moray's most generous and kind-hearted young people.

The Moray Young Citizen Award Scheme showcases the outstanding contributions made to our area by school students and young people in the following four categories:

• Primary school award

• Global Citizenship - open to primary and secondary

• Secondary school award

• Community award

Vivienne Cross, Moray Council's chief education officer reckons this year in particular could see some extremely deserving nominations.

She said: "This hasn’t been an ordinary year for anyone and we know some of our young citizens went above and beyond for others during lockdown.

"We want to hear about all of them so we can celebrate their extraordinary efforts.

"We rely on our schools to nominate students for their activities in school but we know there are community groups and organisations who would like recognition for young residents’ participation out of school.

"This is the ideal opportunity for that.

"The partnership with Diageo, Police Scotland, Elgin Rotary Club and Moray Council has seen the awards go from strength-to-strength each year, and we expect this year will once again showcase the best of our young people."

The closing date for nominations for the awards is January 31.

Full details and nomination forms can be found here.

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