Competition winners Chloe Gorman, Reuben Steenson, Sarah Guinn and Adam Boucher at the award ceremony for the You can Change your World Competition with Caroline Johnson from Lisnagarvey High School, Lisburn Mayor Councillor Trevor Lunn, Paula Smith from Friends' School and Mrs Elizabeth Dickson, Principal of Friends'.

'IF You Need Support -You Have to Report' - that's the message from Friends' pupil Reuben Steenson who recently won first place in a local competition to design a logo and catchphrase to help people report crimes against people from foreign nationalities and to be better neighbours.

14-year-old Reuben was presented with his prize at an award ceremony in the Civic Centre. Lisburn Mayor, Councillor Trevor Lunn, presented cash prizes to Reuben, as well as Friends' pupil Sarah Quinn who finished second and Chloe Gorman from Lisnagarvey and Adam Boucher from Friends who were joint third.

Reuben described his design as being "composed of many different eye, skin and hair colours, representing diversity and the fact they all form one face shows that they are all part of the same community. The question mark presents a challenge to do the right thing...report crime."

His design incorporated the logo, "If you need support, you have to report" and he had the opportunity to spend half a day working on the finished artwork with top specialist team McCadden Design.

Reuben said, "The whole idea was about community safety and the need to protect others, I used different parts from different people to represent this.

"It was really good fun spending time with the design team, they kept loads of my ideas which was good. I'll be reallyleased to see the poster up when it's finished, I'll be able to say 'that's mine'."

"I really enjoyed the design side of things and I think that is something I would like to do,' Reuben concluded.

At the presentation the Mayor spoke of the value of young people offering their ideas and actively promoting ways of keeping Lisburn a safer place.

Lisburn City Community Safety Partnership Co-ordinator Laurence Kerr thanked and praised all 70 entrants who submitted an excellent range of thought provoking designs and spoke of the partnership's desire to work with more schools in this way.

Chief Superintendent Mark Gilmore said h� was extremely impressed with the thoughts and ideas of the young people as it showed their understanding of the issues surrounding the reporting and prevention of crime.

In the new year, LCCSP and partner agencies aim to have Reuben's winning design displayed throughout Lisburn on outdoor screens and adshells.