Inverurie Academy's Steven Strachan awarded Future Award at Inspiring Aberdeenshire
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The winners of this year's Inspiring Aberdeenshire awards have been announced, with Inverurie's Steven Strachan being awarded the Future Award for 2022.
Inspiring Aberdeenshire are council-run awards, designed to celebrate the success of people across Aberdeenshire and shine a spotlight on the work they do to keep their communities thriving.
It is often the case that the nominees in these awards receive very little recognition otherwise for their great work and are true community heroes.
Winner Steven is finishing his time at Inverurie Academy throughout which he has been a pioneering volunteer within the Leaders In Sport programme.
He has always been first to come forward for any additional volunteering and that has seen him assisting with primary one and primary seven Transition programmes, helping out at his old Primary School at Kellands with after-school football and basketball, marshalling at Run Garioch and the Active Schools Running Series and, despite the disrupted school years since 2020, he has also held one of the Sportscotland Young Ambassador roles at Inverurie Academy.
His volunteering has also extended into the local community as he progressed from participant to volunteer helper at Colony Park Football Club.
It is Steven’s ability to engage, communicate, humour, empathise and simply ensure that fun is always at the forefront which makes him such a great role model.
This category epitomises everything that Steven has given to Inverurie Academy and the wider local community.
Other finalists of the Future Award were primary pupils Lucy Paterson and Olivia Gemmell from Portlethen and fellow Inverurie Academy pupil Ruby Pearce.
Finalists were nominated earlier this year, before judges met to pick their winners.
Winners will be invited to a special civic reception being held in November to celebrate their successes.
