Throughout the summer holidays I participated in the Ursuline links summer retreat programme offering a role as a young volunteer helping at a children's day camp in Ilford alongside other Ursuline students from other schools. I was particularly inspired by Genevieve who had participated the year before me and felt a desire for change and wanted to make a difference to helping young people. For me, the day camp was so much more than playing duck-duck goose or making a chatterbox it was about offering my time and allowing myself to grow more as a person it is extremely easy to hear that we should help charity donate money, clothes but there is also something fundamental about offering time. Angela Merici a key role model within our school community said “do something get moving risk new things … get on your knees and then be ready for big surprises” this quote resonated with me as the person who started the programme 5 months ago is a very different person.
