Month: July 2016

Eden Project – checkpoint (2 weeks in)

It is the 28th of July, 2016 and it has now been two weeks since I started my internship at the Eden Project. At the start of my first week I had a plan about working on the Nuclear and Geothermal research for the Masterfile and also to keep researching new and emerging technologies’ on the side.

Between the 12th of July and now a lot has happened. At the start of the second week I spent two days on the ‘Welcome week’ meant for new volunteers and employees. This was very useful as it gave me more information the amazing stories behind how Eden came to exist, about what Eden was trying to do as an educational charity and how they were going about doing this. This also helped me to become more familiar with the site and the different people that work in different departments around Eden. I was also very fortunate to be able to sit in on a meeting with Jo Elworthy, the Head of Interpretations and Augusta Grand, Eden’s Head of Policy, while they were discussing Eden’s proposed geothermal plant. This was also very insightful as me and a fellow intern, Emma, who was also at the meeting are supposed to be working on Eden’s geothermal story.

With regards to my research and my work on the Masterfile I have now completed the first draft of the Nuclear story and have worked on summarizing the information into a possible story-line for the exhibit. I separated my research into nuclear into the following sections: History of Nuclear, Nuclear power production process (Fission and Fusion), Challenges with Nuclear Power and Solutions to Nuclear Power. In the midst of these sections I included current worldwide data of energy productions, and other nuclear statistics predominantly from the International Atomic Agent’s website and reports. The story-line is the information that will be on the information boards and leaflets and whose goal is to make the general public interested in the topic and its issues. For my story-line of Nuclear Power, I decided to add a section on popular myths and misconceptions to dispel popular myths about nuclear power production and radioactivity in general. I then sent my draft to Jo for feedback.

I have since decided to take a break from Nuclear and work on the geothermal story especially since Jo, told us that this story will be of more importance to Eden. This is because of the fact that Eden is planning on building the UK’s first deep geothermal plant, and would like to inform the public about the geothermal story and get them interested in what Eden is trying to do and how it would potentially benefit them. The research for the geothermal story will be done by both me and Emma. I will gather research on the more technical aspects and the general background to geothermal power production, whereas she will be working on Eden’s link to geothermal energy and the story from their point of view. Essentially my part of the research will follow the same skeleton as the research I undertook for nuclear power. I have since completed the ‘History’ and ‘Geothermal power production’ sections and am now working on summarizing the pros and cons of using geothermal energy as a means to generate electricity.

Over the past two weeks I have learnt a tremendous amount. I ran into several problems, mainly with directing my research. I realized after speaking to my supervisor after a few days since I started on my nuclear research that I was going into detail in places that were not required. I have since learned the kind of material I should be looking towards by walking around site, looking at the kind of information they have on their current exhibits and speaking to my supervisors and other interns. Now, having started on geothermal energy, the research is going more smoothly as I now know what kind of information I should look for. The other problem I encountered was creating a story-line. This involves having to summarise all the research in a topic into easy to understand terms, to make it interesting and attention grabbing. I struggled with simplifying the nuclear research into something anyone would understand but in the end I just kept at it, and tried using my 15 year old sister to tell me if anything was too complicated. I have also started making daily targets that I ensure are complete before I leave for the day.

Finally, working in the office amongst all the other employees and seeing their interactions with each other has given me a very deep insight into how the work environment at a charity is. Everyone is enthusiastic about their job and cooperate with everyone else in the team to get the work done. Small things stood out to me such as the fact that whenever someone went to make tea, they asked everyone if they wanted one too. I got a chance to see this teamwork and enthusiasm to a great extent as this past week was the week where Eden was setting up their Dinosaurs exhibit. The compilation of months of research was being put onto an exhibit and all in one week. It was very inspiring to see how everyone in the office left on the last day to help out on site, with the setting up of the exhibit. It gives you a feeling of everyone enjoying their work and wanting to make it a success.

For the remaining weeks, I will finish up the Nuclear story and my part of the Geothermal story and hopefully finalise the whole story together with Emma, the other intern. I also, hope to actually start some research on new and emerging technologies. I have not yet had time to research this section even though it is of interest to me due to a lack of time especially since spent time going into too much detail at certain points.

To finish, here are some pictures of the beautiful Eden project that Emma and I took over the past two weeks, including the new dinosaur exhibit!

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Weeks two and three at St. Anne’s: gaining trust

It’s nearing the end of my third week at St. Anne’s, so it’s definitely time for another blog post. Before we dive into the details, I thought it might be a good idea to clarify some of the jargon I’ll be using throughout my posts.

A ‘client’ or ‘service user’ is someone who has come to St. Anne’s for any kind of assistance, from help with housing or substance abuse problems, to just wanting a shower and a hot meal. St. Anne’s has many different clients, but my project is focused on those who are ‘vulnerably housed’. This term is a bit foggy; it covers just about everything from street homeless (what we tend to think of when we hear the word homeless) to someone living in a hostel, right the way through to people who actually have their own tenancy. You’ll soon pick it up!

Despite the fact that I’ve worked at St. Anne’s before (see my previous blog post) it still took some time to settle in again. For the first week, I heard a lot of “So what are you doing here, then?” “Do you work for a charity?” “Are you a support worker, or what?”. The team at St. Anne’s doesn’t usually change much, so a new face was something of a novelty for the service users.

After this initial novelty wore off, one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced during these first few weeks of the project is how to engage with the service users, and how to persuade them to chat to me about Spice. As you can imagine, some clients can be difficult at times, and often have a hard time trusting people they deem to be professionals (that includes me, apparently). It was my job to make them see that I wasn’t asking questions to be rude or critical, I was simply trying to find out more about Spice. Over the past three weeks, I’ve learnt (sometimes the hard way) how to put clients at ease, so I thought I’d share my top tips with you.

  1. Talk to services users as you would anyone else. People who are vulnerably housed are often cut off from the rest of society, they are used to being shunned and mistrusted. You need to show them that you respect them and their opinion, just like any other person. Be friendly, and don’t be frightened or too formal.
  2. Try to remember their name. Now, this seems pretty obvious, but I’ve found that it makes a huge difference to the service users at St. Anne’s. As I said before, the vulnerably housed often feel rejected by society and as a result can be quite defensive; making an effort to remember someone’s name lets them know that you’ve not just dismissed them because of their position.
  3. Let them be the expert. Compared to most of the services users I have spoken to, my knowledge of Spice (from its various effects to the price of a bag) is pretty rubbish. They are the experts, and it’s important that you treat them as such. Listen to what they say, it might sound odd or even silly to you but you’re not the one taking this drug, they are. I’ve found that this approach also helps to gain the trust of the service users; they spend a lot of time being on the receiving end of help or guidance (from doctors, social workers, etc.) so I think that they enjoy the chance to actually give their own opinions and advice.

So, using these basic ‘tools’ (if you like) I think I’ve managed to gain the trust of a lot of the clients. Many of them remember my name, and will say hello if they see me. It’s really nice to feel part of the community at St. Anne’s. In terms of my project, it’s helped me to engage with the service users and to get them to open up about their experiences with Spice. It’s a little too early to go into the details of my findings, but one thing in particular that has struck me is the sheer volume of service users that take Spice. I’d been told that it was very popular among the vulnerably housed by both the staff at St. Anne’s and associated health professionals, but I didn’t quite understand the scale of the problem until I witnessed it first-hand. Literally every single person I have asked in the last three weeks has taken Spice at least once.

The poster shown below is displayed in the reception area of St. Anne’s; I walk past it every day. Worryingly, during my time here I have spoken to clients  and staff who have experienced (or witnessed someone else experiencing) all of the listed effects of so-called ‘legal highs’. It’s not pleasant to talk about, but hopefully my project will play a small part in raising the public’s awareness of the dangers of Spice.

 

 

St John Ambulance – Third Week

Time has flown by and it’s hard to believe it’s nearly the end of the penultimate week! It’s been a promising week with significant progress having been made:

  • I finished extracting the relevant data from DIPS for the fifth and final district within South West Region and plotted the graphs to present this. There is a lot of data that I’ve collated, so I need to consider how best to present my results when I start to write my report.
  • The survey I created has been distributed via the South West Region mailing list with great results. After the slow response initially, I’ve now had over 100 responses, which is much more than I had anticipated!
  • I’ve worked through each of the surveys to pick out the comments/improvements that volunteers would like to receive in their training and this will be included in my final report. It’s really interesting getting the perspective of other volunteers from all areas of the region as it highlights specific areas of the region where more focussed training on a particular topic could be implemented. It also shows what’s going well already, but also what more could potentially be done for volunteers.
  • I’ve had a few more training programmes back from unit managers across the region, although this is still fewer than I would have liked. However, the training programmes I have got are really useful and again it’s interesting to see the similarities but also the differences between the training delivered to volunteers across the South West Region.
  • I’ve also kindly been given specific injury data for 3 major running events held in Central District (Bristol 10k, Bath Half Marathon and Bristol-Bath Marathon). It was intriguing to see the nature of the injuries that St John Ambulance treated and as a result led to me researching further information about the most common injuries, not only to further my first aid/medical knowledge but also to create a training presentation specific to running injuries. Having spoken to some current volunteers and after viewing the online training folder, it was apparent that currently there isn’t a bank/source with resources that units can access to deliver first aid teaching. Therefore, I’ve put together a presentation with the most commonly treated running injuries, with the long-term vision that further presentations/resources may be put together into a general resource bank that anyone can access to further their training. I feel the running injuries presentation may be useful to a wide range of units, as having looked through the duties covered throughout 2015, running events are covered all over the region so the information would be useful and applicable to volunteers out on duty.
  • I’ve also met up with both my project supervisors to update them on my progress so far. They’ve also been able to get me specific injury data for the ‘Mid-Devon Show’, and having looked through the injuries treated, it highlights the importance of first aid training with respect to bites, stings and allergies as these accounted for over a third (36%) of the patients treated. I’ll be meeting with them again this afternoon hopefully to discuss the final report.

Heading into the final week, my focus will be on writing the report and presenting my findings. I will also look to put forward suggestions for training development as per the survey responses.

 

 

Touchdown in Paignton

Yesterday, following a fairly long (but mostly hassle-free) trip from my home in South London to the sunny seaside town of Paignton, I woke up early to start my internship training. The town, as per its namesake, is home to the Paignton Zoo & Environmental park as well as the Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust. Established in 1959, the Trust operates in locations all over the UK, working for both domestic and international conservation goals. My two days of training was incredibly hectic and involved meeting a lot of new people alongside being told about a myriad of different aspects to the research project I will be joining in on.

 

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A quick photograph I snuck in between collecting foodstuff and faecal scoring in the enclosure with the Emperor tamarins… I’m hoping to learn a lot more about wildlife photography while I’m here

 

To sum up what I’ll be doing as simply as I can:

The project I’m working on was established around a year ago and aims to investigate the possible effects of two different probiotics on the general wellbeing of a number of primate species held at the zoo. The question being answered is essentially as follows: can the known health benefits of these microorganisms in humans also be identified for other types of non-human primates (NHPs)? In the event that positive results are found, future breeding/ conservations programmes could begin to confidently incorporate probiotics into the set diets of captive NHPs in order to improve their general wellbeing as well as simply survivorship. The specific aspect of this project I will be taking over will involve making up and weighing different feeds for ten species of primates each morning. Then, at the start of the next day, I will collect leftover food to calculate how much has been eaten before completing faecal scoring to analyse their general health. This will be partnered with extended periods of behavioural observations using ethograms to hopefully make conclusions about if these probiotics could affect the activity of these primates in any meaningful way. Positive results obtained here will revolve around increased levels of activity and feeding behaviours promoted by the presence of these probiotics.

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Guess which one food item here the primates don’t actually eat… believe it or not, it’s the banana
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Stopwatch and record sheet for food measurements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As complex – and ever-so-slightly overwhelming – as the first two days of training were, I’m very excited to keep getting more and more involved in the project and possibly even get started on some more independent work during downtimes. In addition to research I’m hoping to use the fantastic amount of access I’ll have to these animals to practice some photography and video skills when possible.

As for the near future (later this week), I will be conducting some inter-rater reliability testing. Essentially, I will sit in for long observation periods alongside the project leader and see if our behavioural scoring systems are statistically similar. This should be a good way for me to practice my observational skills under supervision whilst simultaneously completing some important scientific work which will help in the final stages of the study (since these tests can allow conclusions to be made on the accuracy of results collected during observations).

 

Fingers crossed the sun stays out until the weekend!

Week 1 at Full Fact.

My internship is at Full Fact, the UK’s independent factchecking organisation. Ahead of this year’s referendum, they worked with ITV and Sky News to correct factual errors made in live debates, and they have asked for and got corrections in all the national newspapers. They play an ever-growing role in the effort to hold the media and politicians accountable to their claims.

Many assertions made in public debate come up again and again, they call them “zombie claims” at Full Fact (because they just don’t die). Claims like ‘poverty increased in the past six months’ or ‘unemployment decreased last year’. Factcheckers spend valuable time finding and interpreting government data for poverty or unemployment every time new datasets are released. In order for Full Fact to spend more time getting into deeper questions, and for journalists to have faster access to the truth, the charity is aiming to automate the most repetitive parts of their work.

This is what I’m working on: automated factchecking. The code I write will hopefully lead to the first ever factcheck carried out by Full Fact with a computer program. My project has quickly taken shape, and is divided into two parts. The first is natural language processing (NLP), that interprets, for example, Jeremy Corbyn’s claim at Prime Minister’s Questions that more people than ever live on the streets. The second does the statistical work, checking the claim against government data for homelessness.

So far I have been using NLP and discovered that the problems involved in teaching a computer how to read are both interesting to solve, and also a massive challenge. Sentences are constructed with linguistic rules, but they are no way near as logical as  instructions a computer understands. Every rule that I come up with that can interpret text seems to require a hundred exceptions.

More broadly, the office experience is great. Having been provided with a good starting point, I am working on the code itself on my own. I am even helping shape what direction to take it in, so there is a certain amount of responsibility I have never felt before in the workplace. I am doing this because I like politics and this is something that can make a difference to democracy. I love having a TV on the wall showing the BBC news channel, and receiving emails with information on the day’s political happenings! To top it off, sunny lunchtimes with a falafel wrap in Gray’s Inn Gardens are beautiful.

 

 

The End of My Time at PureLeapfrog

It is always amazing to seat at the end of a journey and look back at the road you have traveled. This four weeks have blazed by and I am now left to reflect on my time at PureLeapfrog.

When I started this internship, I had many preconceptions of what working in a formal setting would be like and indeed a lot of misgivings surrounding the current political climate that Britain surrounds itself in.

I had imagined that the biggest pain points of working would be related to project planning, and execution but I discovered more importantly that building the proper environment and team spirit may be the single biggest challenge of a CEO running a company. Furthermore, that I as worker would have to contend with some give and take. Nonetheless, before we move on to the ideas  that I have come to it is good to take a look at the work that I have done.

When I started I was giving a mission to develop a conceptual map of the community energy landscape. The beginning was like this:

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Unreadable scribbling

 

 

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After consulting with my CEO Alex Germanis, I was able to refine my ideas and arrived at the following map:

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On further inputs from a Master student in Sustainable energy, I was able to construct the final map that best illustrates the key plays, inputs, and processes of this landscape:

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This process was fruitful as I developed new graphic and design skills, I was able to research and synthesize community energy, and I learn how to interact with superiors.

Nonetheless, in the midst of all this, I have come to understand that subordination with an organization created by the passion and perseverance of others is not me. The truly challenging work that CEO Alex and the team does is invaluable to the British community now and in future however as I chart my road in future I too want to enjoy the pleasure of not only birthing ideas but also being able to execute on them in a sustainable way and successfully.

Within the uncertainty of the short term political situation in the UK as well as the long term uncertainty surrounding such things as AI, Climate Change, and demographic imbalance there is no better time to strike for the fences and become a creator. The world we live in is non-linear and the best toolkit to counter that is the resilience to implement on perceived opportunities even in conditions of extreme uncertainty.

As I move forward from PureLeapfrog, I can only wish them the best and hope that they will thrive even under the circumstances that we find ourselves in. Furthermore, I would like to thank CEO Alex, and the team for all the support that they have provide and all the unsolicited advice and conversation that they have provided.

To any student Imperial student reading this, I would highly recommend the charity insights program.

Nothing beats the experience of work for a small team with strong passions with the support of the Charity insight team including Barnaby and Jessica.

Good luck.

Second week at PureLeapfrog

I am more than half-way through this four week journey and it seems that time is escaping. So much of consequence has occurred between the last blog post and now.

In terms of project, I have learned new skills mainly to do with designing and synthesizing new ideas. The map (see image) that I was tasked with constructing is now nearing it’s finishing touches and I am glad for the opportunity to have been part of a team.

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The initial scribbling of the map.

 

After watching the day to day ebb and flow of the office, it has become more apparent that it is the people that surround you that matter to a much greater extent than any idea ever could. The sense of camaderie and togetherness in pursuing our goals and vision is trying fascinating and it is this feeling that I will seek in future.

Speaking of the future, where do I see myself next year, or in three, or five years? The United Kingdom was to become my new home, where I would “make my dent in the universe”, now it seems the country is headed inextricably towards uncertainty, pessimism and division. My future has become a whole lot more uncertain since the first blog post.

My CEO Alex, as well as my Horizon’s mentor Martin have been an important source of comfort and groundedness in this new up in the air world. Alex has told me not to worry too much aas he figures that for the most part things will continue as they always have. Meanwhile Martin gave me some sanguine advice about the tyranny that is our own mind. How crisis often has a way of starting in the mind and propagating through our bodies and into the wider world. He told me that solutions therefore have to come from within as we seek the optimism and excitement within the world no matter the events of the past weeks, months, or years. I hope that I can embody that spirit.

St John Ambulance – Second Week

Hello again from another sunny day in Bristol.

The online platform DIPS is temporarily down, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to provide an update on my project over the past week. This week I have continued where I left off on Friday, with good progress having been made. I have extracted the data from DIPS for four of the five districts in the South West Region and entered it into my spreadsheet allowing for more graphs to be plotted/drawn. I am currently working on extracting the data for the final district and will have this all done by tomorrow (hopefully DIPS will be back up and running soon!). During the week I have also created a survey (by district) for all volunteers in South West Region. The main aim of this survey is to gain the volunteers’ perspectives of the first aid training they receive and where they feel it can be improved (if at all). So far I’ve only had 10 responses, but hopefully the link is going to be published in the regional newsletter so that will lead to greater coverage and an increased number of responses! I am aiming to be able to analyse the results of the survey next week as I start to pull the results together for my final report. I have also contacted the unit managers within each district to ask for their unit training programmes. I have had a couple of training programmes through so far, and am hoping to receive some more in the coming days, which will allow me to then compare the first aid training that volunteers receive to the first aid they have actually had to provide whilst out on duties.

After spending the whole week in the office, you’d think I’d take a break from St John related activity, however, that was not the case. Over the weekend Bristol hosted it’s 35th annual Harbour Festival and St John Ambulance were at the forefront providing first aid treatment for the thousands of visitors that came to enjoy the Harbourside at it’s best. In between responding to calls, I met volunteers from across the region and this was a great way to develop my project! I was able to explain my project and its aims to some of the unit managers out on duty but also speak to some members of the clinical and assurance team. This was particularly useful, as subsequently, I have been able to obtain data for all of the events covered by South West Region in 2015 with an overview of the types of injuries that occurred, the treatment provided and information about the discharge of patients following treatment. Aside from furthering my project, I did also develop my first aid and medical knowledge; learning about the different types of skin tear, the importance of taking a history (particularly with head injury patients) and dealing with some less cooperative patients.

I also met my project supervisor whilst out on duty at the Harbour Festival and will be meeting him tomorrow to go over the project so far and discuss further plans for the next couple of weeks!

My final week at the UK Stem Cell Foundation

Having completed the British 10k on Sunday, my final week at the UKSCF started by discussing the run and how it had gone with my colleagues. However, before long I was back to work.

I began the week by responding to queries that had been sent into the charity by individuals enquiring about places on clinical trials. I had to advise them on the costs and benefits of different clinical trials, as well as guide them towards useful tools to research and understand the implications of taking part in a clinical trial. This exposed me to some of the people that the charity is trying to help by funding research, and it served me as motivation to imagine the situation that they must be in and the fact that we must be somewhat of a final hope.

For two days, I visited a lab researching stem cell treatment of spinal cord injury at UCL’s Institute of Neurology. I was welcomed by the team and presented their project in detail. They explained to me their successful clinical trial, which led to a paralysed man regaining motor and sensory function, as well as their new aims in perfecting the technique for further trials. I was also taken for a tour of the lab (including the animal testing zone) and given demonstrations of the specific techniques they use for the project. This experience gave me a real, hands-on insight into where exactly the charity’s money goes when it funds research groups.

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UCL’s Institute of Neurology – home to the spinal cord injury project funded by the UKSCF

Having returned to the office, I began planning and designing the charity’s newsletter. This involved deciding on relevant articles and presenting them in a format that was easy on the eye. I particularly enjoyed this due to it allowing me to be more creative. In addition, I am helping with the redevelopment of the charity’s website, which we feel is in need of improvement.

Since finishing my Charity Insights internship:

Although my internship at the UK Stem Cell Foundation has finished, I will in fact continued working for the charity in a temporary position. I am very happy to have the opportunity to continue the work that I started during my internship. In particular, I hope to use the database of contacts that I developed during the early stages of my internship, as the opening of the Centre of Regenerative Medicine was unfortunately delayed. Having the opportunity to work in areas such as website design and the production of the newsletter is also a great way to leave a lasting mark at the charity before I have to leave. I am very thankful to the team at UKSCF for their help and support, and for giving me the opportunities and level of responsibility that they did.

The Charity Insights programme has given me the opportunity to gain experience in a commercial environment (which I lacked before now), the platform to apply the skills and knowledge that I have gained during my time at Imperial and prepared me for the big decisions coming my way over the next year or so. Working for a charity is of course rewarding, as you feel you are making a difference and genuinely helping people (particularly at a charity such as UKSCF where the treatments they help to develop will change lives). However, it is also a true business setting and relies on everyone giving 100% and performing their work as efficiently as possible to ensure that as much of the money raised as possible is going to where it is needed. For these reasons, I believe that it has prepared me very well for applying for jobs in whichever area I decide I would like to go into – quite possibly a charity. So finally, I would definitely recommend the programme to anyone thinking about it in the coming years, and I thank Imperial and the careers team for this opportunity.

What I have learned:

  • Communication skills – especially in terms of addressing people’s queries by letter.
  • Creativity and design.
  • Article writing.
  • Lab skills/ research procedure.
  • Application of stem cell research.

 

Settling in at the UK Stem Cell Foundation

Weeks 2 and 3:

My second week began much the same as my first finished – I continued to produce a database of contacts, which we could contact to help us with the opening of a Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Sport and Trauma. I extended the database from sports clubs, brands and bloggers to include sportsmen and women who had retired due to injury and startup companies to target for a corporate partnership. Having completed research for all of the charity groups that I had been assigned, I compiled a list of the top 10 male and female sports stars that I believed we should target using criteria such as sport played, injury history and current charity links.

In addition to research, I began work on a concept for a fundraising/ public awareness campaign. I was allowed to use my passion for sport, and football in particular, to devise a challenge for school, university and sports clubs to attempt. I enjoyed this as I was able to be creative and to discuss different ideas for the challenge with Hugh. Having narrowed down our ideas to 3, I went about researching the possibility specific merchandise for the campaign for example UK Stem Cell Foundation footballs and football shirts for competitors. This involved producing a design for both a ball and t shirt (below), and taking this to suppliers to obtain quotes.

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T-shirt design for the football challenge fundraiser
The campaign is still a work in progress and we are hoping to film a ‘pilot’ video to take to the charity’s ambassadors and trustees in the coming weeks, with the aim of taking the challenge to professional sports clubs to increase excitement before releasing it into schools/ universities.

I have also produced 1-page brochures for the Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Sport and Trauma, corporate partnership proposals and the charity in general. This has involved taking the most important and relevant information from the website and longer brochures, and fitting it onto 1 sheet of paper, as well as understanding the target of these different pieces of media for example sportsmen/ women, potential donors and corporate partners. In addition, I produced a design for a webpage to provide individuals with more information about running the London Marathon in aid of the UKSCF. Again, I have enjoyed the opportunity to be creative with these tasks.

Alongside this, I agreed to help fundraise for the charity by taking on a personal challenge. A spare place was available to run for the charity at the Vitality British 10k in London, July 10th. Despite the lack of time to train, I signed up and completed it in a time of 48:39, which I was quite happy with. More importantly, I have raised over £400 for the charity so far and am hoping to reach £500 in the coming weeks.

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Finisher’s medal for the Vitality British 10k

Skills that I have learned:

  • Approaching and negotiating with suppliers
  • Selection of key information
  • Creativity
  • Identification of target clients and how to approach them
  • Fundraising
  • Time-management