Citizen of the Year 2012

It has been another busy week for the team organising Citizen of the Year 2012. Finalists selected, ticket sales being pushed, and lots of people being contacted.

But it’s worth stepping back a second just to remind ourselves what this is all about.

The idea for the Brakes Trust to run a project like this was conceived in late 2010 as a way for the Trust to reach out to the community and forge some new links. So the 2011 campaign was born, and resulted in  excellent coverage in the Courier newspaper leading up to a highly successful awards ceremony at The Assembly.

It was a great vehicle for the Trust and the sponsors alike, but in a way that wasn’t the point. It was all about the finalists, whose work and efforts in the community completely eclipsed anything we were trying to achieve. The defining moment of the 2011 Awards Ceremony for me was when Peter Davis, Brakes Trust chairman, took the mike and asked everyone in the hall to show their appreciation for the invited finalists. That moment just then, the applause and the standing ovation, summed up what it was all about. I’m no wordsmith so I can’t truly describe how it felt at the time, but it really was something special.

At time of posting this, the 2012 finalists are not yet revealed. But rest assured that they’re all very very worthy of the title and people at the Gala Awards Ceremony this year will once again be inspired by their stories. Plus we’ve got live entertainment again which we expect to leave the Town Hall fizzing, and we’re raising money for good causes Warwickshire and Northants Air Ambulance and Warwickshire Young Carers’ Project.

Please come along and we’ll make sure that you have a great night!

Buy tickets online: www.citizenoftheyear.org.uk