
17 young people in Year 10 & 11 came on the trip. As it’s still quite early in the school year there were a lot of faces I didn’t recognise, and names I didn’t know, so I was particularly interested to see how the trip unfolded. We arrived at Barclays at 11AM, and went up to the 30th floor to meet our hosts for the day. It was a bit quiet to start off with in our meet & greet session, which didn’t bode well considering the theme for the day. However, the kids gradually came out of their shells, and in the end there were some really excellent presentations delivered, with clear improvements on practices conducted earlier in the day! They had really taken on the advice of the Barclays employees when thinking about their presentations.

We rounded the day off with some mixed sports at a local centre, where Justin Pickett (Junior Mentors Project Leader), was seen demonstrating some flamboyant footwork on the football pitch. It was a great day out for everyone, lots of learning and fun as well. Huge thanks to Nick Whitbread for organising everything and all his colleagues at Barclays for helping out!
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