Community - Based Projects
After Loch Eil, participants return home and then enter the non residential phase of the Award.Participants devising
and delivering a community project iand this experience is central to developing participants' leadership and business
skills.
The basic requirements for each project are simple: it must take three days to implement, it must benefit the group's local community. You will learn how to draw up a plan for your project; take responsibility for various tasks; take your turn as team leader; raise funds to cover the cost of your project; and make presentations to win support for your project.
Throughout this process the Outward Bound Metro staff who trained participants at Loch Eil meet the teams, work with and advise them, and review participants' progress in each project and development in five core skills:
improving own learning and performance
communication
working with others
problem solving
project management
"Mark Scott is not just Leadership for Life, it's friendship for life".
Megan Swanson and Amina Rafiq, Holyrood Secondary School
"It was at that moment that I started
to believe in myself."
Victoria Renton, St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, Participant.