Crofton Award 2011

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"Young people know how best to engage with their peers and can often be some of the best communicators with adults too."

Tom Bell, Chief Executive, REHIS

The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) in partnership with ASH Scotland is delighted to announce that W-WEST are the winners of the Crofton Award for 2011. The Best Newcomer Award for 2011 has been won by Dundee Peer Education Project.

The Crofton Award is the only award that recognises the achievements of young people in reducing tobacco and smoking-related harm in Scotland. This unique award contributes towards the development of new ideas and innovation by and for young people themselves with prize money of £1,500 to be shared between two groups - £1,000 for the Crofton Award Winner and £500 for the Crofton Award Best Newcomer.

Crofton Award Winners W-WEST hosted a youth peer education event in February 2011 and this motivated them to focus on developing their own training materials and resources for peer educators. Group members developed training materials in the form of presentations, interactive activities and information materials for participants to take away with then at the end of training sessions. 

The group has fostered a partnership with Durham University that will see them develop an English language version of an exhibition based in Uruguay entitled Uruguay Breathes. The next exciting step for W-WEST will see them visit Uruguay in February 2012 to observe Uruguay Breathes for themselves!

 

 

“The Crofton Award highlights not only that young people are interested in the issue of tobacco and its impact on themselves, their friends and family, and their community, but they have ideas for both prevention and quitting that are innovative and imaginative and are well worth rewarding.”

Sheila Duffy, Chief Executive, ASH Scotland

 

Dundee’s Peer Education Project won the Best Newcomer award. The Peer Education Project gives young people the skills to become Peer Educators, who then find and develop interesting ways of engaging people of their own age on the harms of smoking. This involved getting creative by developing quizzes and workshops to challenge myths about smoking that circulate among their peers.

Dundee Peer Education Project are planning to use their money prize to re-shoot and update a short film they had previously made to educate about the harms of tobacco - ‘Smoked’ was originally made several years ago by the peer educators.

Eligibility: The Crofton Award is intended for any project involving young people and interested in tackling tobacco in Scotland. Only groups, not individuals, may apply for the award. ‘Young people’ means those under 25.

If you think that your organisation or project around tobacco use or smoking may be eligible for the award, please download more information from the links below. Applications for the Crofton Award 2012 will open in August 2012.

Further information:

 For more information on the Crofton Award and application process please contact Donald Lockhart, Youth Development Officer, ASH Scotland, 0131 220 9465, 
Donald.Lockhart@ashscotland.org.uk