Nicola Harwood
Citizenship Foundation Alumni
Posts by Nicola
A speech to 3000 people. Not scary at all … !?!
Friday 4 December 2009Today was the big speech. Palms sweating, 3000 agitated young people watching and the proceedings were an hour and a half late – never a good way to sooth nervous presenters. Ruth and I were talking about how to support young people to have a positive impact on their community. Before we came out here [...]
…Continue reading ' A speech to 3000 people. Not scary at all … !?! 'Which school has the X Factor?
Thursday 3 December 2009Today’s job at the convention on student quality centres involved being a judge on school case studies. Now, being a huge fan of X factor I’d always assumed I would be more of a Simon Cowell, ruthless and opinionated. One presentation in from a group of Nepalese fifteen year olds and I was the Cheryl [...]
…Continue reading ' Which school has the X Factor? 'Welcome to the worlds largest democracy!
Wednesday 2 December 2009Hi there, for those *keen* followers of this blog who aren’t aleady aware, Tony Breslin our CEO, Ruth Le Breton from the Go Givers team and me from The Youth of Today will be blogging everyday from Lucknow, North India. We have been incredibly fortunate to be invited to a convention on student quality control [...]
…Continue reading ' Welcome to the worlds largest democracy! '