
#YouthVoiceNow Interview with Patrick Cantellow (21) youth employment champion and #Point-of-Light winner.
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Patrick Cantellow, aged 21, from Kent is a #youthvoice champion and ambassador for careers, apprenticeships and social action. At the age of 15 Patrick formed the now completed ‘Swale Young People’ project, which offered a voice to young people and high quality work experience and social action opportunities to young people in Swale, using the network Patrick built with his own volunteering work with the NSPCC, The Children’s Commissioner for England and #iwill. Aged 16, the organisation formed as a C.I.C. and received funding from Comic Relief, DCMS and the local devolved councils. Patrick was awarded the Points of Light award by then Prime Minister Theresa May for his work changing the lives of Swale Young People’s beneficiaries. In 2020, in addition to his role as Chair or the Youth…