SAYLS Young Leaders Grace, Josh, Sam, Robyn, lead by Team Manager (Team Manager Mentor from September 2010) Sarah, attended the GB Wrestling event on Saturday 17 July 2010 at Ponds Forge.

Taking the role of Competition Stewards, their role were to look after and chaperone the elite athletes to and from the event area ensuring the event schedule ran smoothly throughout the very long day from 09:00 until 20:00.

The Major Events staff from Sheffield were very impressed with the Young Leaders contribution saying:

'After a slight delay to the days proceedings (IT issues, not our fault though) the long day began, and as ever the team on site from SAYLS were thrown straight into the mix.  They were given roles where they were responsible for ensuring the athletes were at their respected matted area ready for their bouts and result running between each of the 3 mats and the event office.  I think Grace must have walked several miles in the first couple of hours that morning literally, I'm not joking!  So that left Sarah, Josh, Sam and Robyn with the task of rounding up the athletes for their respected bout, which was no easy task because quite a lot of the athletes couldn't speak English or if they did it was only a little.  But every time I saw them I kept checking to see if they were OK, and as usual it was a positive response with a smile on their face and they clearly knew what they were doing.

So finally I just want to say a huge THANK YOU from me personally to you all and it was my pleasure to work with you five on Saturday.  It’s always a massive relief to me / MSEU knowing that I have such a confident, pleasant and hard working group of young adults assisting us in the whole process and being confident in the knowledge that we can leave you to work without any worries or concern.

I hope you enjoyed the day and I'm sure I'll see you all again in the coming months.'

Paul, Major Events Unit, Sheffield City Council.

Well done TEAM, another fantastic event, brilliant contribution and clearly excellent feedback.

The 2010 SAYLS Celebration Evening took place on Thursday July 8 at Hillsborough Stadium, the home of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

Guests including the Head of the city Council Mr. Paul Scriven, other VIP's, parents, new and old Young Leaders alike gathered at the 1887 Lounge to celebrate what has been a fantastic year with SAYLS.

Gold Young Leaders Becky, Beth and behind the scenes Tom (Stage Manager) ran the event from beginning to end, and with the rest of the Gold Young Leaders, they co-ordinated and hosted the event from the table decorations, to the running order and awards.

Key speeches from enthusiastic Young Leaders including Katy, Josh, Adam, Alex, Amy, Ryan and Mohsin were extremely influential and represented what we are all about perfectly.  In addition to this, DVD blogs from Frankie and Beth about their disability trampoline coaching and community volunteering, with a written speech from Gold Young Leader Holly rounded off what was a fantastic schedule from a fantastic bunch of Young People.

Awards for Community Young Leader of the Year (Beth & Frankie), School Sport Young Leader (Will & Liam), Major Event Young Leader (Amy), Bronze (Josh), Silver (Carys) and Gold (Becky) Young Leaders were handed out to those who have really shone with SAYLS this year.

The final award went to Alex who won the Ian Anniss trophy.  This prestigious award was earned through him being a true inspiration to his peers and us as staff, a fantastic accolade for a fantastic Young Leader.

Team Managers Meg and Sarah were chosen by staff members as the top two Team Managers to become volunteer SAYLS staff next year and step up to the Team Manager Mentor role. Here they will manage a group of around thirty Team Managers next year and contribute as SAYLS staff in team meetings.

The event ran smoothly, everyone seemed to enjoy it and it was a fitting end to an overall excellent year with SAYLS.

'We feel we have to write and congratulate SAYLS for hosting a fantastic evening last Thursday.  It really was well organised, very well presented and being Wednesday fans the venue was absolutely perfect!'
SAYLS Young Leader parent.

'Thanks for the invite to ‘Moving On Up!’.  It was a really impressive event and I thought the young leaders did brilliantly.  SAYLS is exactly what the Inspire programme is all about so we are really pleased to have you on board!'
James, London 2012 Inspire Mark & Yorkshire Gold.

'I just wanted to say a huge well done for last night.  It was a great event and I really enjoyed listening to the Young People speak about their 'journey through sport'.'
Karen, Forge School Sport Partnership.

Well done to everyone involved.