Earlier CAP Reports
Some of the Reports and Comments from 2005
"All in all, I have had a great time here. I think the Bryncynon Strategy is doing a wonderful job and my short time here has improved my awareness of different lifestyles and developed me as a person.” from 'James'.
Allan Wilson - The Iona Community in Scotland
"My confidence in myself and in my ability to successfully interact with all different types of people has improved immensely. I have enjoyed the freedom and trust awarded to me, especially in leadership situations, and learned a lot of valuable lessons in all areas of life."
Ann Doyle - Cornerstone
"...will help me in the future not to judge people on initial appearances, and help me to manage a group of people who are different from me."
Michael Wernham - Youth Federation in South Wirral
"Overall my time with the Youth Federation has been one of my favourite periods of time in my life."
Luke Jones - The Good Shepherd Mission in London
"I will never forget my time at the Good Shepherd. A real and totally different angle of Christianity was revealed to me. It’s workers and congregation are really doing God’s work on earth."
Rachel Merriman - The Salmon Youth Centre
"Over the two weeks my confidence continued to grow when working with the young people and I am looking forward to continuing to get to know some of the young people from the 10-13’s group when I go with them to Little Canada at the beginning of August. My work this year will definitely help next year when I start university, as this will be another very different experience. My time both this year and last year at the Salmon Centre Youth Centre has given me the confidence to tackle this and any new other situations that I may face in the future."
Duncan Darroch-Thompson - The Princes Trust Scotland
"I would like to offer my thanks to the Rank Foundation and to the Prince’s Trust for once again allowing me to do such worthwhile and enjoyable work experience. The people I have met over the last two years have been both varied and interesting, and I very much hope to participate in the final leg of the exchange in Norway next year."
Paul Holland - Joss Street Hall Association in Invergordon
"What I’ll take away from the placement is the knowledge that even between people from the most disparate regions of the country there is more that unites us than divides us: cultural differences become insignificant when we engage with people as they are. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay in Scotland and left with far more confidence in relating to new groups of people from very different circumstances."
Ed Rogers - Community Campus 87 in Stockton-On-Tees
"I never knew digging a cess-pit could be so much fun."
Alex Gostling - Rank Foundation Community Action Placement
"As part of my two week placement I was involved in many different activities which developed and reinforced many of my skills."
Sara Jane Milne - Holton Lee Placement
"There are many aspects to Holton Lee which mean that there is no one way of describing it, however that is what makes it so attractive."
Luke Jones - My Community Placement with Rank
"The relationships I had made will last a very long time into the future, and I am overjoyed that I got the chance to work with young people on such a personal level."
Henry Eigenheer - My Fortnight with Time and Talents
"Overall I had an extremely enjoyable and rewarding two weeks, which was great, as I did not quite know what to expect."
Geraldine Beswick - Sandpipers, Vitalise, Southport
"I was so nervous about my work experience placement, at Sandpipers, a holiday centre for people with physical disabilities in Southport that I was considering cancelling it and changing to something else. I’m so glad that I didn’t."
Louise Edmunton - Young People Corwall (YPC)I have to admit, I wasn't particularly looking forward to doing my two weeks of work experience! I didn't really know what to expect and that in itself was quite intimidating.
Louisa Searle - The Wire Project Summer 2004
It was only when a tall young man told me to put my suitcase by ‘the, uh, disused toilet which is waiting for gunge!’ that I fully realised quite what I had let myself in for!