Confident Prince's Trust team aims to help others
Students on Ayrshire College's Prince's Trust programme at the Kilwinning Campus have put together a short video to help students and the wider public best deal with the current restrictions in their daily lives.
The film aims to remind people of the Covid protection levels and how they can best be adhered to. The uplifting message also encourages people to look after their mental health and wellbeing, and not get too down about the things they can't do at this moment in time.
The Prince's Trust team has had to deal with their own setbacks during this pandemic, with the programme's usual week-long residential trip cancelled for this group.
The residential week is normally a key event for building confidence among the group of students. Gaining confidence is one of the key reasons that students look to enrol on a Prince's Trust course, as they work together on team building exercises and form friendships that last a lifetime.
Three of the members of the current Kilwinning team have explained that confidence was the main skill they were looking to gain on the course. Despite the cancellation of the residential trip, all three have said the way the Prince's Trust course has adapted to the restrictions has been brilliant, and they all feel they are gaining the skills they were looking for thanks to their community project - the mental health awareness raising video.
Kaitlyn, 19 from Stevenston, said: "The video we've put together is a cartoon sketch. We each created and voiced a character, and I'm really looking forward to seeing people's reaction to it.
"I'd originally started a Childcare course at college but I found it quite hard, so one of the lecturers recommended this course. Confidence is the main thing I'm looking to build up, and although it's early days I can feel it's happening. I feel comfortable around the whole class, I speak up more now and get more involved."
Mica, 21 from Kilwinning, said: "I'm hoping to move on to working in communities, and this course has given me the kick up the backside that I needed to go and do that.
"A lot of our course is online now, we're at the college campus on a Wednesday. Most of the time the banter is still there online, but obviously there's a time and a place for that.
"I know people can look at me and think I'm really confident, but it's a hard one because I know inside I can get really drawn into myself. So I do want to get more confident. It's going well so far but I can still be working on it as we go."
Kenzie, 17 from Kilwinning, said: "I'm the same as Kaitlyn and Mica in that I want to gain confidence, and experience - experience of working with others. I'm still not sure what I want to go on to do though, I have a rough idea but I'm just focusing on this course at the moment.
"I like drawing so this project has been really fun for me. I just hope people like what we've done."
Mica added: "Kenzie is an amazing drawer, what she's produced is amazing. I hope it's what everyone is looking to see, and up to the standards of what others are wanting. I hope it can help in the way it's supposed to."
25 November 2020
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