"It really was inspiring... the students were able to immediately put their new confidence, team working and communication skills to use."

Georgia Steele, The Sorrell Foundation

The Sorrell Foundation: Training and Celebration
http://www.thesorrellfoundation.com/

The Sorrell Foundation inspires creativity in young people and champions good design in public services. It jointly runs the Young Design Programme on an annual basis with art schools across the country.

Project brief: Facilitate participants of the University of the Arts London Young Design Programme to celebrate and communicate their achievements in a clear, creative and engaging way, improving young people's confidence, communication and presentation skills.

What we did:

• Recruited and trained volunteers to work with client teams (school pupils aged between 11-18)
• Facilitated creative development and experience-sharing workshops in schools
• Enabled the pupils to devise unique performances and films with student volunteers
• Rehearsed young people's performances
• Gave interactive lectures for 100+ University students on presentation skills
• Led one-to-one and group presentation workshops on planning, structure, development and presenting
• Developed supporting online training resources
• Rehearsed and gave feedback on University students' presentations
• Ran training sessions for volunteers on working with young people
• Mentored teams of student volunteers to lead sessions in schools
• Produced and directed celebration events at Cochrane Theatre 2007, Tate Britain in 2008 & 09 for audiences of 300 people
• Liaised and project managed between multiple stakeholders