The most significant aim of the events is to raise the positive profile of young people both within their local communities and in a wider, national perspective.
Pilot celebration events are a feature of the empowerment strand of Aiming High, the government's 10-year strategy for young people's engagement in positive activities, and fittingly all of the events will be led by young people.
To date, young people have played a key role in the early planning and submission of proposals for the events from which the ten successful authorities were selected.
Pilot projects in all 10 - Bournemouth, Poole, Cornwall, Oxfordshire, Brent, Hillingdon, Suffolk, Derbyshire, Bradford and Warrington - will explore a range of models, methods and processes for celebra-ting young people's achievements, focusing on those aged 13 to 19.
As these processes develop, young people will plan and manage the work supported by youth workers and other local authority professionals.
The events look set to reach young people on a significant scale. It is anticipated that at least 1,000 young people will be involved within each authority, and that special measures will be put in place to reach out to disadvantaged groups, such as those who do not normally get involved in projects of this nature.
As well as a desire to promote intergenerational understanding, there will be a focus on informal or community-based achievement as well as achievement within schools.
The successful authorities will be developing local partnerships to enable the continuation of the events.
Efforts will be made to involve schools in the events, plus the third and private sectors in active ways, and to identify and work alongside positive role models.
