Digital Documenters meet CentrePoint.

So this Monday 4 October, three of the 12 London team went on down to the Centrepoint Offices in Aldgate for a quick catch up with their team and to discuss how we could help them capture their Speak Out event.

The Speak Out events are designed with the service users in mind in order to give them the opportunity to do exactly that and speak out on issues affecting them. Now we at First Light strongly admire the many voices of the youth today and we’re more than delighted to have the chance to get involved with Centrepoint on this.

So here’s a big thank you to Sam Clarke (Participation Officer), Aaron Gray (Volunteering Officer), Helen Bryant (Volunteering Officer), Rachel Allen-Lowton (Participation Assistant) and Charmaine Charles (Media Liaison Volunteer) for their time and we look forward to working with them over the coming months

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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!