Great Ormond Street Hospital: Activate project

This week, Joe, Olivia and Anna headed down to Great Ormond Street Hospital to interview and film two volunteers taking part in the Activate project. Ali Naqvi and Alia Sheikh Mohamud are two very passionate volunteers who take time out each week to play sporting activities and games with the outpatients.We spent the morning filming the volunteers in a briefing and then interviewed them later on at Queen’s Square. Despite the cold weather and spot of rain, Ali and Alia were great and we were really inspired by their stories and motivations for volunteering. Ali used to be a patient at Great Ormond Street Hopsital so he volunteers to provide a better experience for the patients there. As for Alia, this is her first time volunteering and she wants other young people to know how rewarding it can be.

Check out some of our photos from the shoot below and go onto our Flickr profile to view them all!

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Recruitment Day!

A large group of us from Manchester, Birmingham, Exeter and London got together for the first time for the recruitment day!

Travelling from London by train, I was ready to get stuck into the day ahead as I arrived at Orange Studios, not far from New Street Station in Birmingham. As I enter, I see a mass of young people all chatting to one another- I get stuck in and introduce myself as I prepare for a day of teambuilding! After helping ourselves to much refreshments, we retreated to a room where we were inducted on the company, the project and roles! There was a lot of information to take in, but all was explained well by our project manager Rebecca!

 

Meeting the team

 

The day consisted of various activities that really helped to build team dynamics- we had to use just newspaper and masking tape to create the tallest tower (my team would have won, but ours fell down at the crucial judging moment!) We also did a survival task and participated in discussions on the role of a leader and qualities that leaders should possess.

 

Brainstorming what makes a good leader

 

As we left armed with information packs and training dates there was a joint consensus that this project was going to be somewhat special… It was a good, fun day and just the beginning of this exciting project!