NCS Fest Summary2015

Contents

Promoting Young Talent

Brining Colour to Life

Pledging British Values

What Does It Mean To Be An Adult?

Freeing Aspirations, Hopes & Dreams

Highlights

Promoting Young Talent

We believe in empowering young people and giving them to opportunity to shine

NCS Graduates on our music team got the opportunity to play in front of 500 people in a real festival atmosphere

This saw them grow in confidence, and lay the foundations to develop a real following over the course of the summer

Pics of performers

Bringing Colour to Life

The young people really bring life & colour into their communities when they return to do their social action

We wanted to represent this on the day, whilst creating a fantastic memory for the participants

Drawing inspiration from the Indian Holi festival we created a festival of colour, really setting the scene for the rest of the day

Pledging British Values

NCS is all about social mixing, and young people realising that they are all the same with shared values

To express this we ran workshops with them on the day on values, and what it meant to be a young person in modern Britain

The young people then pledged to their British values on stage in front of their peers

What Does it Mean to be an Adult

NCS is a rite of passage into adulthood, and we wanted to capture what this meant to participants

We ran workshops on rites of passage, and what this meant to them, the best examples then presented back on stage to their peers

Freeing Aspirations, Hopes & Dreams

We wanted to show the participants that anything is possible

Each of them was asked to write their aspirations onto a piece of paper

We then symbolically released these en masse, representing the fact that anything is possible

Pics of balloons

Highlights

Bonding with the Engage4Life and NCS brands was accelerated

Increased social mixing gave the young people a sense of being part of a national movement

Participants were inspired to take on even more impressive social action projects, referring to the festival

There was an explosion of activity around the event on social media, with images being shared and tagged organically

We managed to collect some fantastic assets, which have been invaluable in promoting NCS and in our recruitment process