Cover Letter as a Programme Leader – NCS

I am a passionate young individual who believes in the effect of youth engagement and creating a world with confident young people who they themselves will create a ripple effect for the next generation. My understanding of this comes through my organisation, my empathy, my actions and last of all my leadership. I have approximately five years of experience in working with youth via the Mayor of London’s Peer Outreach Team as a Project Support Officer. This cover letter entails several examples in my background for application as a Programme Leader.

Through my duties and responsibilities I learnt how to stay humble throughout many facilitations, especially including support and personal development. I managed 30 Peer Outreach Workers (POWs) in their project management, workshop leading, transition and confidence; I understood individuality and different methods in reaching them. This meant personally reaching out to members and getting to know their personality, catering to their needs and eventually gaining their trust.  As an example, I had maintained a relationship with a POW who led different lives from me however I had received his trust through my open honesty and he had asked me to help in his application in a scholarship paying for his tuition for university; this was a lagged week as I altered my role into a teacher and broke down the requirements of his application and explored his passion for education in relation to this, I set a writing frame, tasks and gave the space he needed to focus, whilst maintaining my role as a project support officer. He succeeded beautifully and was awarded his scholarship to live and study at the University of his Choice.

In order to stay on top of effective delivery organization was absolute efficient. A lot of my work sat in meetings whether it was new project ideas in youth engagement or the progress of current projects. It gave me pride when I was able to see a POW shine through workshop leading because their confidence boosted the young people’s self-esteem nevertheless the acknowledgement of their personal experiences was positive progress.  On the other hand, I could not attend all sessions and events hence, I created the Session Feedback Form: to regularly check-up on sessions and events in addition to communicating with project managers. All in all, ensuring a strong and positive support in Pastoral management where I believe communication is necessary and going the extra mile in this.

In order to maintain heavy administration, project leading, a team and event management I continued to find determination and intention in my job; expanding youth engagement and awareness. This involved time management, I would create daily to do lists, the following day to do lists in line with a physical diary which I carried everywhere with me in continuing my passion in helping the youth. For example, my list would mention a follow up confirmation of equipment bookings, our quarterly sessions in practitioners sharing youth engagement methods, via internal departments, hence I maintained a steady relationship with internal employees; making it easier to confirm this, when problems arose internal employees would also go the extra mile and give me deadlines in meeting new solutions, which I would write as another follow up in my list ensuring effective delivery for our sessions.

Working with young people includes the severity of Safeguarding. I have approximately worked for five years learning this and understanding the different needs and behavioural challenges that comes with this increasing my determination in youth engagement. The Peer Outreach Team and I worked on a yearly project called Redbridge where we would meet young people, at their last chance of education, and host our workshops along a personal theme in encouraging a boost in their personal development and what they would like to do next. The young people we had met had several physical, emotional and mental barriers and refused to engage, it was my job to ensure I received their trust and safety in allowing their personalities to shine; I would carry through ice-breakers, creative methods of expressing their opinions and concluding their own understanding in each session, this was important because self-reflection abled in being one step closer of their identity.

In conclusion, I am a hard-working individual who is aware of the many individual personalities across all youth, especially “challenging” young people because they are the ones who are coming to NCS in the first place to ensure a brighter outlook and contentment in their own personalities, as adolescence catches up and It is with my experience I am ready to do that as a Programme Leader. I am excited to support NCS staff and learn their passion of supporting young people through their creative personalities to which effective impact will change a young person’s perspective.

Antara Amin

Soft River

The soft river was flowing down

as I tried to comprehend what had happened.

My hair bubble kept conflicting with my pillow

pleading to be let go, my jeans

kept rubbing against my blanket asking to be taken off,

comfort and I did not want to collide.

The darkness of the room hovers, expecting company.

Should I move out? But what will happen to our relationship?

Will she ever forgive me?

With no one else to talk to, the soft river appears again.

I came through the door avoiding them both,

allowing disappointment to reach out in the stare of a stranger.

The distance between us explained our relationship.

The loud buzz of silence screamed through

and it was her cold manner that predicted nothing more than trouble.

Her gaze met with every quick movement I attempted to make,

her hunger of misery was completed by the shame of my face.

I too, still allowed the soft river.

I came through the door avoiding them both,

apologies being played over and over;

she wanted me to display anything else rather than silence,

stuttering could convey the only emotion

she could physically hold from what she had done.

& who are we talking about tonight?

Night – Carol Ann Duffy

In the fifty year night,

These are the words that crawl out of the wall:

Suffer. Monster. Burn in hell

When morning comes,

I will finally tell

Amen

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Well it’s no secret who she is, every secondary student share something with her via the vivid analysis of her creativity. She has managed to touch many people through her words, through twenty eight simple words. It’s strange the euphoria we feel after reading something that leaves an impact within one moment.

The introduction starts with a character who is aged fifty and compares their life to the night suggesting their life has sped too quickly. Duffy sets the time and duration within the description allowing us to reflect our own life and ponder what it entails.

The second line displays the reality of Duffy’s mind, curiosity. A metaphor of negativity explains how she views life. She uses crawl to imitate the slow motion of words creeping out, hence the reality of age catching up.

The next line suggests the personality Duffy describes, they should suffer, they are the monster and they will now burn in hell as their time is slowly approaching. When morning comes, meaning the character will know if they are yet to live another day; expecting their hell will be coming soon.

A-Bomb Woman?

 From the woman who acted in a moral manner was now known as the creator of the Hiroshi bomb.

Lise Meitner was an Austrian physicist who had fought challenges including sexism, credibility in her work and volunteered her services of being a nurse during world war one.

Her work goes on to discovering new elements which became of interest to other higher forces of authority. Meitner and other scientists were invited to a conference in America discussing on chemical reactions and the impact of this. It was soon recognised, any information released, could be used by the government in a negative light; Meitner protested and claimed, “I will have nothing to do with a bomb”. Regardless her research led to the production of the atom bomb dropped at Hiroshima, Japan.

Now the question we inquire is how? She is a woman whose research intended on the good for humanity, why is she socially labelled as the mother of the atomic bomb? Even Albert Einstein recognised her talents, “Our Marie Curie”; it’s ironic, Curie’s future led to her recognition of killing the nation yet her work led to a charity established after her. What is it about Meitner that embodies a tragedy to her name?

But know one thing, like all unsung heroes her heart intention was good.

Does racism exist today?

Now I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend whose name will be anonymous and we both mutually agreed, no matter what era we are are in, in every culture, race group racism will always remain. 

Its actually about talking to one another to set them stereotypes in order, to learn off one another and open your minds Now you tell me why is it so darn hard to open one’s mind?
I today, am still trying to understand the grasp of racism, I naively believed that racism has left, but it is the people who discreetly disregard any race and their culture in addition to traditions. 
My readers, what I’m saying is, SPEAK, it does not kill you to speak to one another to UNDERSTAND why people do things and why it is in their culture to do so. 

WE ARE ALL HUMANS, HUMANITY SHOULD BE SHOWN AT ITS BEST. 
So why are there such things as dissatisfaction of where you are from? Yes i know, I will be told it is due to individual differences today, them differences define who we are, I would say embrace it unless this harms another human. 

Did I make sense? This is a RANT and I’m NOT SORRY.

Whisper your secrets into the blowing bubbles

Secrets, why are they kept? What have we got to hide? How big is the effect? Heartbreak? Havoc? What is it?

What is this darkness? Is it your name?

I’m actually quite upset right now. I’m aware what I have seen is just a drama, but the main point of dramas is to get the message across, to feel one’s sorrow and understand how pain can lead to not existing.

It is quite haunting, shocking and traumatic the way people commit suicide, people who do such things aren’t systematically programmed to end them self one day, when really it is to do with their social status, their surroundings, their anxiety of how they are around others, that feeling in your heart where you feel no sense of warmth, belonging.

I would just like to say, such things as this, is a very sensitive issue which I believe is very hard to assist people, they them self believe there is no way out, and death is the only way to stop this never ending wound.  It is too hard to find the strength, especially if one is lonely without no help, and so they are trapped in the mentality that soon darkness arrives at its cue speaking, repeating tragic lies lowering the self-esteem.

I think people who are in such state’s, are not themselves, it is not right to feel what you feel, and knowing the story of a death is due to antipathy is emotional.

For those who are reading this, and actually have considered the idea of death, you are recognized even if you have not acknowledged it.

For those in a truly dark position, call free on your phone 116 123 and please just talk, say what your feeling and please just talk.

Antara Amin

Dramas?

Why do we watch Dramas? If we had it in our lives would we be able to cope with it? Such extreme drama makes you hooked automatically and you just can’t  stop.. your frozen, lingered, on every piece of information trying to put the whole thing together and solve it yourself. Ever imagine how would you react if you was the character that was going through such crap? Would you be able to let your ‘true love’ back in when they left you? Or what about in dramas that play character’s lives as a fairy tale.. Do you dream of it? Scoff thinking its all fake? Or really just secretly jealous?

CORNWALLLL

Hello reading minions! *joke* I wonder how the world of blogging and readers satisfies you today? So about three nights ago I came back from a two day holiday with my family from Cornwall. I am sorry if this bores you but I can try to describe the AMAZING time I had?

Okay, so its simple I am a family of 8 and we are quite cheap so our journey is via car thus 6 hours of pure boredom and simply trying to endure it. The coolest bit of the journey to Cornwall was, the stone hedge that we saw, you know how in sci-fi programs like Doctor who or Sarah Jane Adventures there is a scene displaying stone hedges or how when you was a kid and got your first computer there was a choice of pictures to use as your background?? Remember, how cool and grey and amazing it simply looked? Want to know a secret? I didn’t really care at the time but seeing the real deal just makes you think deeply..  well look downnn and maybe agree?

Evening guys! I have just attended an Asian wedding in Chelmsford attaching a long car ride since i am from east london and now going home by car now yay(!)

I didn’t really know the couple, dads just close mates with the grooms dad i think.. well anyway i took a few pictures of the bride i thought she was cute then i took a picture of the groom the problem was i assumed he wouldn’t want to pose for strangers so i asked my little brother to ask him. He was kind and agreed. Yeah i know big deal so the groom didn’t mind posing it just reminded me of the rare kindness that is shown from strangers.. his smile made you feel safe and though usual grooms are meant to be in the traditional Asian attire he wore a simple suit and a rose which i think reflected his personality displaying a tranquil patient guy. If you are wondering no i don’t have a crush on him just stunned i guess knowing such characteristics exist . i hope god gives them them the best happy ness and success that life throws at them.

I feel good dum dum dum dum dum!

P.S: we have a full moon guys and its just simply mesmerising! Think i spelt that wrong.. apologies!

#over&out