News / Nicole voted top young politician
SHETLAND’S representative in the Scottish Youth Parliament has been voted the country’s top ‘up and coming young politician’, coming top out of a field of six.
Anderson High School student Nicole Mouat, from Scalloway, was presented with her prize at the Scottish variety Awards in Glasgow at the weekend.
The award came shortly after she had received the ‘outstanding achievement’ prize in the Scottish Youth Parliament awards, for the work she did locally for the national ‘Picture the Change’ consultation.
The 18 year old toured the islands meeting young people and collecting more than 4,000 statements as part of the consultation.
She has also raised youth awareness issues in the local media and arranged question and answer sessions for young people with Shetland MSP and Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott.
She was one of six pupils up for the award at the weekend, but had received more votes than her rivals.
Afterwards she said she had not even realised she had been nominated for the outstanding achievement award and was speechless when her name was called out.
“This shows that the work I’ve done over the past two years as an MSYP has not been wasted,” she said.
She thanked Shetland Islands Council youth worker Martin Summers and Shetland Youth Voice chair Emily Shaw for their help with the Picture the Change effort and all the Shetland people who voted for her.
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