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Celebration time: CEO says charity is "blown away" after winning top national award

By Staff Reporter [email protected]

Published: December 6, 2020 | Updated: 8th December 2020

MYTIME Young Carers has won the Stephen Lloyd Award, a highly prestigious charity award which is coordinated and funded by the Bates Well Foundation.

The heavily-contested title was won in support and recognition of MYTIME’s School Support Programme.

The Dorset-based charity will receive support from the awards’ pro bono community and £20,000 to develop its ideas.

Krista Sharp, CEO, said MYTIME was “blown away” by the win.

The Stephen Lloyd Awards seek to recognise and support early-stage charities and enterprises which serve a social purpose.

Now in their sixth year, they’ve provided financial and pro bono backing to a wide range of organisations since their establishment in 2015.

The awards were created to honour the memory of the late Stephen Lloyd, former Managing Partner of Bates Wells, the City of London law firm.

The charity lawyer, pictured right, died six years ago after a boating accident in Wales.

He was 63.

The awards help early-stage enterprises that have an innovative idea which deliver genuine, sustainable social change, to get off the ground.

Organisers say these were a passion of Stephen and the awards have continued his legacy by making a significant, positive impact on a wide range of social enterprises in need of professional guidance or financial support.

Stephen Lloyd Awards winners are democratically selected by the entire community of charity and social enterprise experts who support the awards.

The community includes philanthropists, social investors, lawyers, accountants, governance and management specialists and many others.

Winners also receive valuable pro bono support from that community.

Krista Sharp, from MYTIME,  pictured left,  said, “We are absolutely blown away to have won the Stephen Lloyd Award.

“It was a huge honour to have been shortlisted and to be considered alongside the other exceptional projects involved.

“We were one of ten finalists and were pitching for support for our recently launched MYTIME School Support Programme.

“The judging process involved us producing a ten minute pitch, which was shared with 130 people at an online awards ceremony.

“The online judges then selected three charities who they wished to learn more about, and were subsequently assigned to three different breakout rooms, one after the other.

“Within the breakout rooms, each charity had ten minutes to further showcase their projects and its ambitions.

“We were asked some really thought-provoking questions by the judges and were able to share more about our vision for support for young carers in schools.

“The audience was then asked to vote for their favourite project, and we are thrilled to say we won.

“The award comes with £20,000 and some incredible pro-bono support.

“We are delighted that two former young carers who were in the audience and are now both lawyers, with exceptional expertise in both risk management and charity law, have offered to join our growing trustee board.

“Thank you so much to MYTIME’s Director of Fundraising, Penny Day, who wrote the most amazing presentation and spoke so fluently about her own experiences as a teacher.

“This award is a true recognition of all the hard work the team at MYTIME have put in over the past year.

“I couldn’t be any prouder of their commitment, passion and ambition to level the playing field for all young carers.”

Penny, pictured right, added: “The Stephen Lloyd Award will provide us with an incredible opportunity to continue our growth and achieve our ambitious goals.

“It will enable us to expand our work with schools across Dorset and also to reach out to other areas across the UK.

“Hearing that we had won quite literally took my breath away,

“We are just blown away to have been given such a special opportunity and to now be included in the incredible awards network.”

MYTIME’s School Support Programme seeks to:

  • Raise awareness of young carers within school communities.
  • Equip schools with the tools and knowledge to be able to identify and more effectively support young carers.
  • Make sure young carers have everything they need to be happy and successful in education and beyond.

49 per cent of young adult carers (aged 18-25) are currently unemployed.

The MYTIME School Support Programme seeks to encourage schools to review their provision for young carers and is designed to improve a young carer’s educational experience and outcomes.

The programme launched in September this year and is now running in 28 local schools in Dorset.

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