Shrewsbury School pupil, selected for a National Youth Award, to be picked up at the Palace of Westminster.

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00:00Here at Shrewsby School we have a statue of a legend Darwin but never mind that

00:04we've got another legend, Walter! How about that for an introduction?

00:08How are you Walter? What's your full name sir? Walter John Solomon Evans and Walter

00:13you've been picked for a special award haven't you? Yeah. What's the award? So

00:19the award is the British citizenship award. Fantastic so where will you have

00:23to go to it to pick that up? So I'll have to go to London to get that award. Yeah?

00:27A cool experience. Yeah that'll be very cool what what is it you've why is it

00:33they've picked you for the award then tell us a kind of about you know this is

00:36your chance to kind of blow your own trumpet so to speak. So I think it's

00:40because of all the volunteering I've done yeah and the fact that I was the first

00:44youth ambassador for the IAPWA charity. What's that charity then? What's that?

00:50So it's it's a charity that helps protect all animals across the world and I was

00:55really passionate about that since I've been young. And what was your role in that then?

01:00So I did a three peaks challenge in 24 hours which I saved about 1700 for this charity.

01:08Yeah and see I don't think Charles Darwin ever did the three peaks challenge so

01:12you've got one over on him there already. Go on yeah carry on Walter. And I think to get that

01:18to get to the ambassador side of it you have to complete a certain amount of hours volunteering

01:25and raise a certain amount and I completed that and I was the first youth ambassador.

01:29And I think currently this is still the only youth ambassador. Fantastic and where did you do your

01:35volunteering at then? So I've done it for a few different places. I've done a bit at some national

01:42trust. Yeah. I've done a bit for a another charity that I've just forgot the name of that my dad

01:50has helped. We did a 10 mile walk there. Yeah yeah. That was hard because it was very hot that day.

01:56Yeah yeah. And different other places where I've done little bits and pieces. So I'm curious what do

02:04you want to go on to do in life then you know when when you've left the Shrewsbury school here what's your

02:09plans? So at the moment I don't really have many plans. I don't really have an end goal. I think

02:15I'm just going to keep going like this and see where life takes me. That's yeah well that's a good

02:19way of thinking. I mean you're a young man. The world is your oyster so to speak. So when do you go

02:24to London to pick up this award then? Have they given you a date yet? I think they have. I think it's

02:32sometime soon. Yeah sometime soon. You can do a bit of sightseeing when you're down there? Oh definitely. Yeah yeah.

02:37Great stuff. Well well done Walter. You know if you carry on on life's journey the way you've started

02:44off you'll be destined for good things I'm sure. Well done sir. Thank you.