2025

After another brilliant year of creativity, the winners of YCA 2025 were announced at the live awards show at Nottingham Playhouse on Monday 4th June 2025.

The YCA 2024 winners were:

Animation & Digital Media

  • Lily Stephenson (11 - 15 age group)
  • Denise-Favour Ayebayo Brown (16 - 18 age group)
  • Ethan Marle (19 - 24 age group)

Creative Writing

  • Eliza Harrison (11 - 15 age group)
  • Elliot Beal (16 - 18 age group)
  • Esther McKenzie (19 - 24 age group)

Dance

  • Klarissa Zhuta & Lydia Garton (11 - 15 age group)
  • Gemma Herbert & Amira Pirvu (16 - 18 age group)
  • Anastasia Roccioletti, Keelan green, Tegan pearsall, Summer Salter, & Lily Moore (19 - 24 age group)

Design & Architecture

  • Dylan Spence (11 - 15 age group)
  • Jake Lamerton (16 - 18 age group)
  • Katie Evans Puttick (19 - 24 age group)

Music

  • Reuben Paterson (11 - 15 age group)
  • Cara Flynn (16 - 18 age group)
  • Sofia Kellas & George Bower - 'Split' (19 - 24 age group)

Film

  • Joseph Edwards, Angelo De Mico William, Neve Ward, Harry Bates, Addison Poyzer, Freya Waters, Evan Lester, & Larona-Rose Phiri Makanjuola (11 - 15 age group)
  • Sofia Bell & Lukas Farrow (16 - 18 age group)
  • Aishani Bhattacharya (19 - 24 age group)

Fashion & Textiles

  • Daisy Whitehead-Knight (11 - 15 age group)
  • Emilia Bowley (16 - 18 age group)
  • Erika Isangulova (19 - 24 age group)

Graphic Design

  • Tahoura Pourabdollah (11 - 15 age group)
  • Shaye Gibson (16 - 18 age group)
  • Xinran Luo (19 - 24 age group)

Visual Arts 

  • Kuby Choi (11 - 15 age group)
  • Harriet Birtwhistle (16 - 18 age group)
  • Tin Yu Chow (19 - 24 age group)

Photography

  • Bethany Lawson (11 - 15 age group)
  • Yudong Hou (16 - 18 age group)
  • Shashank Dhongadi (19 - 24 age group)