Help Your Child Build Confidence and Real World Skills
The President’s Award is a globally-recognized youth development framework for youth aged 14 – 24.
It helps young people find their purpose, passion and place in the world by challenging them to complete the programme at three levels, through which they can build their confidence and attain universal skills.
Award Levels
The Award is designed to reward perseverance and inspire individual action through challenging, but non-competitive activities.
Bronze
Your very first Award, and a brilliant place to begin. Build the confidence and habits to keep growing.
Silver
A bigger challenge, with deeper skills and a tougher team adventure. Where your confidence starts to shine.
Gold
The full journey, plus a residential project. The highest level, where you become truly world ready.
Get Involved
The Award is available to all 14-24 year olds and is the world’s leading youth achievement award.
It equips young people for life regardless of their background, culture, physical ability, skills and interests. Doing the Award is a personal challenge and not a competition against others; it pushes young people to their personal limits and recognises their achievements.
As you complete each level of the Award, you receive an official certificate and badge recognizing your achievement, endorsed at a national level and respected around the world.
Hear from our Award holders
The Award means a great deal to me because it has taught me things that most people only learn much later in life. It has prepared me for many challenges to come in my adulthood. The values I learnt while doing the Award and still live by are leadership, appreciation of community and self-belief. My number one goal/purpose is to make a positive difference in the world.
While doing the Award, I learned that hard work and determination can get you through anything and never give up when things seem tough. I have scoliosis so I found the Adventurous Journeys challenging and I found balancing schoolwork, the President’s Award, and social life difficult. Through the Award, I have found my passion for outreach, making lifelong friends and the achievements of completing each level.
After making the decision & choosing to study Medicine after school, my goals became clearer. Having done some research on the Presidents Award, I quickly saw that the Award is everything I believe in & strive for: giving back & investing into communities (and essentially myself as well). Doing the Presidents Award definitely helped me to get accepted at 6 different Medical schools in SA.
I decided to sign up for the Silver Level this year because I had a blast last year with the Bronze Level. I discovered so much about myself and about others around me. My highlight of the bronze level was definitely the Adventurous Journey. I made so many new friends with other students in my school. I would recommend the Presidents Award to everyone. I have grown so much and it has opened my eyes. I am so glad I decided to do it. This is something that I will keep with me forever.
