Hannah's Story: The Legacy Award
On 2nd October 2021 we celebrated our belated 15th Anniversary with a fantastic Ball, where we celebrated four Treasure Award winners who have all engaged with Golddigger Trust as young people. As it was our 15th Anniversary, we were delighted to award Hannah the Legacy Award sponsored by C+A Design!
Hannah first came to Golddigger Trust eleven years ago when she took part in an I’m The Girl I Want To Be course at her local church youth group, developing the building blocks of her self-esteem as a young teenager. She continued to be part of the Golddigger Trust family over the years, even drawing the artwork for our very first Golddigger Trust Christmas cards.
After difficult experiences at university resulted in her moving back home unexpectedly, she was left feeling a bit hopeless for the future, but the Golddigger Trust team continued to encourage her potential, inviting her to join the Graduate Volunteer intern programme. Through this, Hannah was able to build her own self confidence again, as she came alongside young people to invest in them, leading the same course that she had taken part in herself 7 years earlier. Since then, Hannah has continued to flourish and really embodies being ‘the girl she wants to be’!
“I LOVED working with Hannah when she was 13 because she was hard work to crack and very honest with us about how our course was quite unlikely to help her. This made me all the more determined to see a change in her and so I couldn’t be prouder to see where she is today (and, yeah, just a bit smug). Hannah has come through so much but has the most wonderful gift of taking her experiences and turning them into the most empowering life lessons and is one of the most engaging people you could ever hope to find in this world.”