The Lord Mayor’s 800th Anniversary Awards was founded in 1989 to help young people undertake projects to broaden their experience, self confidence and enhance their employment prospects. The awards were given at the Mansion House on 29 October by the Lord Mayor, Alan Yarrow. The winner was a young man who had paddled along the coast of Panama looking for unrecorded manatee aggregations. In the course of his adventure his three man team had encountered flies, sharks and at one stage, shared a small island camp with drug smugglers. Discretion being the better part ……. they were lucky enough to hide until dealing was over. Despite a cooking accident in the final stages, from which he ended up in hospital for a short while, he returned with tales to tell. A second award went to a young lady who spent months in Honduras teaching children. Her commitment and enthusiasm were catching. In terms of favoured overseas destinations for gap years, the winner is Central America. The ceremony was attended by Trustees, beneficiaries and their monitors, family, Sheriff Christine Rigden, Baroness Scotland, Livery Companies but, between us – no cameras! A lot of us had been at the Agincourt 600 service at Westminster Abbey where they had been forbidden. It’s a good scheme and draws entries from around the UK – including one family with close connections to Gogarth School in Llandudno.
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