Meet Active Wellbeing Service’s paid Interns, working alongside our Activators
Fast forward two months and I am coming to the end of what has been an interesting and educating two-week induction period. When conversations about summer plans started to roll around I had to make a decision. Drag all of my stuff down the M6, or look for something to do so I could stay […]
This is the first ever project that I have worked on with other students in regards to putting together a programme for the Summer. Whilst I had planned for two weeks worth of inductions, I can see I overly compensated on the timetable, having to fill empty spaces with quizzes or activities for the students. […]
As part of ‘Project Brum’, we are working alongside staff at Birmingham City Council’s Wellbeing Service – a department which is continually striving to create new and exciting activities to improve the health and social lives of Birmingham residents. I’m Rebecca, a 22 year old Politics and International Studies graduate from The University of Warwick! […]
No more power points and talks, this time we got a taster of what its like to be an Activator. It was a positive induction experience because we learnt a lot in two weeks, we where not thrown in the deep end, we had been given the necessary knowledge needed to be an activator and how to […]
For a project that is still in its pioneering days, ProjectBrum has already proven itself as a well organised scheme with a bright future and endless possibilities over the next few years. Although it’s hard to gauge people’s true feelings towards the project, an overall positive attitude coming from those working with us this summer […]
Over the last few days I had the opportunity to visit Big Birmingham Bikes (BBB) and see the events and the rides they put on around Birmingham, as the Big Birmingham Bikes have been turning up all over Birmingham, a few days ago I even came home to find a Big Birmingham Bike in my […]
I honestly didn’t think that I would have the opportunity to take part in Project Brum at Birmingham City Council. Coming from Birmingham living in the community, after finishing my AS Level exams, I spent my first two days getting to know the people around me and what working on this Project meant to them. […]
Last summer I worked with the ActiveStreets project – me and a few other students spent our summer generally helping out in all aspects of Birmingham’s Wellbeing Service. Towards the end of the summer we knuckled down to develop the ActiveStreet’s documentation and started building a conceptual framework for the project, upon our return this summer […]
Our car breakdown cover provided us with a nice new car for a few days which had an ‘automatic start-stop‘ after our old car died (thank you LV=). It’s a nifty bit of technology which helps reduce car emissions, but you don’t have to buy a new car to stop idling; The first UK Clean […]