2005 Whitbread Young Achievers were:

ARTS
Sarah Greaves
Sarah has set up ARC (Art Reaching Communities), a voluntary organisation which runs art projects for children in deprived countries and exchanges artwork internationally between schools to increase inter-cultural awareness. In August the project took two arts practitioners to work with children in a Kenyan Orphanage.

COMMUNITY
Richard Holden
Richard is a key member of ‘Sky High’ a peer education group, and has initiated and developed many projects to target drink and drugs issues. Richard has dedicated over 400 hours since February 2005 to community projects.

ENVIRONMENT
Ailsa Holmes
Ailsa has created an eco-garden in Platt Fields Park, Manchester, which was previously neglected and vandalised. She has raised around £20,000 to create additional features for the park, including a pond, Japanese mosaic garden, sculptures and an amphitheatre.

SPORT
Jesse Peters
Jesse founded Haringey Warriors Youth Organisation over 3 years ago, which offers a range of youth services to young people in deprived areas of North London. HNYO reaches people from the ages of 6–25, many of whom come from low income and single parent families.