Dan Ponting was part of Arts Award's Gold pilot scheme over ten years ago. He has since completed a Fine Art degree, had work shown in Tate Modern and won a Royal Photographic Society competition. He currently works as a graphic designer.

We're celebrating Arts Award turning 10, and this December we want YOU to choose the best in the arts since 2005. Remember to add your email address when you vote, so we can add you to our prize draw to WIN A Hudl, £40 Theatre Tokens, an annual under-26 Art Pass OR £20 iTunes Voucher. We'll keep the polls open until 16th December and will announce the most popular moments between Christmas and New Year...get voting!

Ginny has been rooting for Arts Award in Yorkshire since 2005 working with CapeUK.

This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of gaming from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.

This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of spoken word poetry from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.

This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of theatre from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.

Call Me Unique is a 'singer / songwriter heavily influenced by jazz, soul and the forgotten art of jazz scat-singing'. Here, she gives Voice Reporter, Idriss Assoumanou her tops tips for breaking the industry.

This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of TV from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.

Mary Strickson was an Arts Award Voice Reporter from 2014-15, and is now a regular contributor to the magazine. She is also close to finishing her Silver Arts Award.

This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of film from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box

Sadly, socialising doesn't come naturally to a lot of young people, especially me, who are only just getting to grips with the real world.

Freya Averley, lives in Newcastle. She is now 16 - she did her Gold Arts Award while 15 - and has been training circus intensively for nearly 4 years with Five Ring Circus at Circus Central in Newcastle.