Volunteering and Extracurricular Roles

One of the most difficult roles I've taken on was to run the Equestrian team after lockdown. This role taught me the most about working with a team, managing conflicts within the team, organising multiple different events, communicating with many different organisations and keeping them all informed, ensuring everything needed for the society was in place and was running as it should. occasionally events didn't go according to plan which required me using my initiative to overcome. It taught me so much more than I could have imagined it would. 

I was voted in to be course rep all three years I was at DMU. I was the person course mates would go to with questions, problems, complaints and suggestions and I'd make sure all of them were brought up at meetings to be resolved or implemented. I learnt to listen to everyone whether I agreed or disagreed with them and brought their point up in an unbiased way. I learnt to explain situations and reasons to people who weren't always happy to hear the answer and fought on behalf of people who needed it.

This was during the Covid lockdown so for the first time we were doing everything remotely. We had to work out new systems and ways to function in a new environment. We had to find a way to work and make people happy despite the upset of not being able to be in person.

Similar to the role above, this was during lockdown and involved helping a different type of society find its way through lockdown. This one being a sports society meant it was much harder to be remote as not everyone could continue the sport at home. We had to come up with different ideas for meetups, charity events and sport sessions. We managed to do a new charity event as well as encourage everyone to keep active with access to exercise routines and a charity event which revolved around being active.

As a senior prefect, I had regular meetings with heads of our school to discuss issues, plan events and communicate with staff. We were expected to be role models in the school and also show prospective pupils and parents around. We planned our own charity event in aid of the homeless which we got many others to participate in.

Every year there was a house music competition. My job was to organise three different solos, and ensemble and a whole house song. This involved encouraging students who were either nervous or not as enthusiastic about music and making it fun.

This committee organised fundraisers like the Macmillan bake sale and movember events that went on at school. This was the first year that we had this committee so we had to work out how to co-ordinate everything and the proper ways to organise events.

I volunteered at a few afterschool activity sessions for pupils in the primary school years attached to WGS which involved teaching them activities, making sure they were safe and playing nicely with each other. I also would go to a different school called Peckover Primary School and sit with children one on one and help them read so they got more practice reading.

For my Bronze DofE I went to Cats Protection League where I helped clean the areas the cats lived in, socialised the cats and checked they were healthy as well as answering questions adopters had about the cats. I continued this after my DofE requirement had ended.