Last year's awards were staged on 4 December and were organised by a group of 10 young people from NCVYS membership organisations. The group first met in London last August to discuss the type of event that they wanted to run. Mita Desai, 20, who was part of the planning group, says: "We basically brainstormed what we'd do if there were no barriers in terms of money or anything else and tried to think about what our perfect event would look like."
The group quickly decided that they wanted to put on a cabaret-style evening, which would include a sit-down meal. They also realised that while they were good at generating ideas, they lacked the necessary skills to run the event. "We fed this back to NCVYS and they got someone in to run event management training with us, which gave us the confidence we needed to plan the awards," says Mita.
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