Young Volunteer Awards

The club marked the contribution of our young volunteers by awarding Scottish Athletic and Saltire Awards.

Scottish Athletics have developed an awards programme that clubs can implement, introducing Gold, Silver and Bronze Award certificates. Kilmarnock Harriers are delighted to take part in this scheme and have around 35 Young Volunteers assisting with Registration, Competitions, Race Running and Coaching, some of whom have completed the Scottish Athletics Leading Athletics Course and are hoping to progress to Level 1 Assistant Coach.

Lindsay McMahon, Scottish Athletics West Regional Development Manager presented these awards.

Bronze Award is for young volunteers who have delivered a minimum of 30 hours volunteering in an

athletics club environment.

Caitlin Marshall                    Ross Dunlop                          Julie Lawrie

Silver Award is for young volunteers who have delivered a minimum of 50 hours volunteering in an athletics club environment. The following Young Volunteers have completed the Bronze Award and continued to volunteer for a further 50 hours completing 80 hours in total.

Lauren Park                          Caitlin McMahon                  Zoe Nix

Gold Award is for young volunteers who have delivered a minimum of 100 hours volunteering in an athletics

club environment. The following Young Volunteer has completed the Bronze and Silver Awards and

continued to volunteer for a further 100 hours completing 180 hours in total.

Shona McBean

Our Young Volunteers are also involved in the Scottish Government / Young Scot backed Saltire Awards Scheme.  We have encouraged our Young Volunteers to sign up for the Ascent Scheme which requires 500 hours of volunteering to achieve success.

Our Young Volunteer Co-Ordinator, Tommy Graham, has recently been approved as a Saltire Ambassador and in recognition of this Club President, James Young, presented him with his Lapel Pin to mark the occasion.  Tommy made the following awards on behalf of the Saltire Scheme.

The first level is the Challenge and there is no doubt that our Young Volunteers are meeting this Challenge with fervour.

The second level is the Approach and the Young Volunteers who have accomplished 10 and 25 hours of volunteering are:-

10 Hours                                                                                             25 Hours

Ross Dunlop                                                                                       Ross Dunlop

Julie Lawrie                                                                                         Julie Lawrie

Eilidh Gardiner                                                                                   Caitlin Marshall

Morgan McKenna                                                                               Danny Harvey

Danni Hands                                                                                       Jack McConnell

John Tippen

Kayleigh Duff

Danny Harvey

Moving on to the third level Approach leads towards Ascent and the Young Volunteers who are now making their Ascent and reaching the Award stages are:-

50 Hours                                                                                             100 Hours

Catlin McMahon                                                                                 Claire Orr

Caitlin Marshall                                                                                   Lauren Park

Max Walton