Prince team reach goals

Apr 28 2009 by Our Correspondent, Perthshire Advertiser Tuesday

Prince team reach goals

DUNDEE College’s Princes Trust Team in Perth swapped their overalls for kilts and cocktail dresses to attend their final team presentation at the lecture theatre in the Fair City’s AK Bell Library.

Two of the team were particularly pleased to feel the folds of a kilt against their legs as opposed to the hot wax they endured in a bid to raise cash for the programme.

Scott Moffat (25) and Arron Dick (17) volunteered for a leg wax at the Cutting Room but reckon it was well worth the effort as the team went on to donate Easter eggs to a group of young carers, organise a bingo tea at Louise Brae Nursing Home, take a youth group for a day out at Codona’s theme park, Aberdeen, and arrange a trip to Stirling Castle for a group from the Perth Association of Mental Health.

Along with colleagues Dean Mailer (18), David Milne (21), Paula Greig (19), Sarah Stewart (17) and Chanelle McCullie (17) the boys also created a sensory garden in the grounds of the Louise Brae Nursing Home, in Tulloch.

The team planned the whole area themselves, from clearing the ground of existing plants and weeds to transforming the area to incorporate, a rockery, decking and a pond.

At the final presentation, Scott Macfarlane, Prince’s Trust Volunteer of the Year, will present each team member with a Prince’s Trust certificate, plus certificates in first aid, food hygiene, customer care and a Millennium Volunteer award.

Based at Highland House in St Catherine’s Retail Park, the present team of young people come from Crieff, Blairgowrie, and the Fair City itself.

The 12-week Prince’s Trust Team project is aimed at preparing those taking part for that vital ‘next step’ into employment or further education.

It helps young people develop confidence, learn new skills, and get into work as well as bringing together people from different backgrounds and circumstances and with different abilities.

The Prince’s Trust Team Programme attracts people from all walks of life; unemployed people as well as those in jobs can take part as can people on the New Deal initiative, or graduates fresh from university.

The programme encourages team members’ individual personal development in areas such as communication, leadership, motivation, confidence and tolerance.