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.
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