But Anthony "Swifty" Vanterpool will be feted in a manner youth workers are unaccustomed to at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on May 17 for the Public Servants of the Year Awards.
The event, hosted by newsreader Trevor McDonald, celebrates unsung heroes who do remarkable deeds in unremarkable circumstances. Vanterpool, 31, is shortlisted with a senior benefits adviser and a police beat manager in the frontline workers category.
This is not bad for a Mancunian who only started working with young people thanks to some blunt advice he received from a youth worker in his teens.
"I was told I had a bit of a gob on me and I ought to use it more productively," he says. "It was the best advice I ever got."
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