A REDNAL marketing consultant who uses performance to raise social awareness is the latest winner of a new volunteering award.

Daniel Bridgewater founded the social enterprise Fourth Wall - named after the imaginary barrier between theatre performers and their audience.

The enterprise was launched in 2012 to teach entrepreneurial skills such as teamwork and leadership. The 23-year-old has been devoting 15 hours a week to the scheme, juggling it with university and employment commitments.

Daniel has worked with more than 1,000 young people, aged between five and 25-years-old, giving them the chance to express themselves on the issues they feel passionate about through drama and performance.

Fourth Wall develops teamwork and management skills through providing training and long term support to individuals who want to create their own community theatre company or arts based enterprise.

The performances the groups create are based on issues that concern them ranging from future aspirations to knife crime and domestic violence.

They currently operate five theatre companies across the West Midlands, running in partnership with their trained franchisee, and have also worked in a number of schools, something they are looking to expand upon in the coming year.

Daniel is also heavily involved in youth leadership and governance through his Trusteeship of UpRising, a UK-wide leadership organisation, as a trustee for the RSA’s chain of academies.

He is a school governor for a primary school in Birmingham, the co-founder of Birmingham’s Emerging Leaders Advisory Board and the city-wide leadership programme The Art of Leadership, and runs his own marketing firm.

Prime Minister David Cameron announced that Daniel is to receive a Point of Light award, which recognises outstanding individual volunteers who are making a change in their community and inspiring others.

Daniel said: “It’s great to be recognised in such a way.

"We’re still growing, but it is now at a point where people know our brand and what we do, and I can walk into a theatre company and see people learning and having fun."

The Prime Minister said: “Daniel has come up with an innovative way to support budding entrepreneurs to build their team working and leadership skills through drama while raising the profile of issues that matter to the young people taking part.

"Over 1,000 young people across the West Midlands have been involved in productions tackling issues from knife crime to their hopes and dreams for the future."