Founded in 2007 by veteran media editor Bob Clarke, the MAMA Youth Project (MYP) provides production training to young people from under-represented groups and those with limited educational or employment opportunities.
At Pilotlight I’m consistently inspired by the journeys our charity partners and our skilled volunteers (‘Pilotlighters’) go on.
Imagine you’re a grandmother. You love your grandchildren, but after a busy day taking care of them you’re happy that your own children are grown!
I’d been thinking about how I might give something back to my local community for a while, although I didn’t know what that would look like. When I came across Pilotlight it clicked with me instantly.
"Organisational change is not easy or comfortable. We felt the safe space created at the meetings allowed us to be completely frank and honest about what we were thinking, the challenges we faced and the reality of our financial situation."
"Pilotlight gave me the confidence to go for things –to stretch that little bit further."
“I felt like I was Dorothy on the yellow brick road! The Weston Charity Awards gave me the courage to put on paper what I had in my head about where we could be and made me believe we could get there.”
The Pilotlight conference is one of my favourite days of the year: it is an opportunity both to celebrate what we have achieved over the year with
The latest winners of the Weston Charity Awards have been revealed today at a celebration event held at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum.
