Top award for youth group Kumon Y’all

Volunteers at Kumon Y’all beat 60 entrants to scoop the i12 award.

The annual project was set up to encourage young people to work together on a problem affecting their community. Kumon Y’all identified burglary as an issue that needed to be tackled in Savile Town and Thornhill Lees.

Farook Yunus, who runs the group, said: “Burglary has gone up quite a bit in this area, so we thought ‘let’s start working on this’.”

Volunteers designed and delivered a leaflet highlighting the problem of weak ‘euro-profile’ locks to more than 2300 homes in Thornhill Lees and made a youtube video showing people how to replace them. Officers from West Yorkshire Police presented volunteers with their award. “It’s motivated them to do even more work,” added Mr Yunus.