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SkillsTrain Young People of the Year 2008

SkillsTrain Young People of the Year or ‘YOPEY’ - the contest that aims to improve the image of young people by ‘revealing, recognising and rewarding young unsung heroes’ - is back.

At least £10,000 can be won across Hertfordshire as YOPEYs are held in the county for the third time. Dacorum young people will be competing in this YOPEY with young people from St Albans City and District for £2,000.

The SkillsTrain Young People of the Year winners will be announced at an exciting awards ceremony to be held in Hemel Hempstead in March.

After a series of awards ceremonies across Hertfordshire, winners from all 10 districts of the county will then go on to the Hertfordshire YOPEY Final – hosted by Hertfordshire County Council at County Hall – next May.

Among the judges will be 17-year-old Andy Salter, from Church Lane, Colney Heath, and 13-year-old Devon Glasford, of Sparrowswick Rise, St Albans, who won the last local YOPEY. Andy, a sixth-former at Verulam School in St Albans, is organizing a concert to raise money for a cancer charity, and Devon, a pupil at Townsend School, cares for his sick mum.