. Collecting the survey and other information needed so we can complete the task.
. Choosing two days when everyone is free to do the activity.
. To get a wheel chair for the two days of when we are doing the survey.
. Going round to all the shops in Wycombe, and showing the employees in the shop a letter to say what we are doing.
. Writing it down on the survey.
. Finally a de-brief on what we think and what we have commented on and how much needs to change in order to help disabled people.
2nd activity-Poster for Christmas shopping:
. Organise a suitable time when everyone can meet and discuss what information needs to be put on the poster.
. Need a computer so we can design the computer.
. After all the information is put on, make it eye-catching and festive so the elderly/disabled will be attracted.
. Also need a floppy disc to save the poster on so it can be printed of at the Wycombe Youth action office.
. Make sure it is completed and handed in before the end of October.
3rd activity helping the elderly/disabled shop:
. Organising a group of willing helpers, to support Wycombe Youth Action.
. Filling out parent consent forms, which will enable you to take part in the activity. Sending it to 46 St Mary Street, High Wycombe, Bucks HP112HE ASAP.
. Going on Tuesday 23rd November 2004 from 5.30pm to 8.30pm meeting at the Frogmore entrance at the Chilterns.
. Organising who is helping with what.
. Helping and pushing the disabled round the Chilterns and taking them to the shops they want to go to and helping them out.
. Returning to the meeting point at 8 o’clock.
Section B: Activity Log
Section C: Communication
List of supporting evidence
The support material and resources I used or produced as part of my work for the activity:
Evidence 1: Survey for access of wheelchair
I have used the front page of my survey I was given by Wycombe Youth Action to complete when going round High Wycombe in a wheelchair and accessing wheelchair assess in shops as supporting evidence because it shows what I had to fill in and how the survey was layout. This evidence shows how I made decisions by showing a category column and a comments column that were empty and I had to fill in. Also the survey gave us a number of possibilities, the category is out of five and five was the shop was very accessibly and one was you could not even enter the shop in a wheelchair. The comments were to write in if there was a problem e.g. if the aisles were small or if there was steep step into the shop e.c.t. . Also on the left side of the table there was the number of the shop and by it the name of the shop, so therefore it made it very easy to find. This evidence also shows how we had to make judgements and work as a team to make them.
Evidence 2: A newspaper article with a picture of our team around the wheelchair by the Bucks Free Press
This piece of evidence supports again how we took part in the community activity and what people thought of it, there is a picture of our team with me sitting in the wheelchair looking angry to give imagery and to show that being in a wheelchair around Wycombe was very difficult. This evidence was used in the local Bucks Free Press to show the people of Wycombe that there are still problems with wheelchair access and to show the local community what was happening. This picture also shows it was big team effort and how what we are taking part in if going to help the disabled community.
Evidence 3: A poster for publicity of the community Christmas shopping event
This evidence gives a copy of the poster produced by two of my friends and me to advertise the Christmas shopping event. It shows how we had to include all the important information and then make decisions on how to design it so it would be most appropriate for the time of year and to stand out and attract as many elderly and disabled as possible. The positive side to the evidence is it looks very festive and stands out but the negative side is it does not look as it is targeted for the elderly and disabled. We had to make judgements and compromise to make affective decisions.
Evidence 4: Parent Consent form
This evidence is of a parent consent form from Wycombe Youth Action on volunteering for the Chiltern centre Christmas shopping. This evidence was used to show the arrangements for the Christmas shopping and what had to be filled in order to take part in the event. It also says we will be participating with other volunteers and acting as leader when giving aid to the elderly and disabled.
Section D: Evaluation
Evaluation of own contribution to the activity
I volunteered to help the community in three different ways and they all were aimed at improving the freedom of the disabled and elderly. Throughout my experiences I found it very enjoyable and interesting to and sometimes I faced the same situations disabled people come across in towns in every day life. To enable to participate I had to use many different skills, which I developed more such as responsibility and consideration, and being very cooperative and discussing many different issues facing the disabled community which never face the able bodied.
My first task was my hardest because I never knew what life would be like in a wheelchair and I just took being able bodied for granted, but I was lucky enough to experience it while working in a team to go round all the shops in Wycombe and accessing the accessibility for wheelchairs in shops. I learn a lot from the task and now have a lot of respect for the values of freedom for the disabled; I would have not been able to complete the task without my team members.
I was given a lot of reasonability for the next task because my friends and I were put on charge of making a poster to advertise for the Christmas shopping event, so we had to research what kind of stuff to include, although the task was small it was very important because we wanted to attract as many elderly and disabled as possible.
Finally I volunteered to help aid the elderly and disabled but unfortunately I was unable to attend because I was ill. I had a leadership role in all the tasks I need because I organised when to meet up and what we were doing. I helped people to keep on track by reminding them a lot. I played a very key part in the team so I think I was a good team member. Hopefully when I was in Wycombe going to all the shops and sometimes discussing what we are doing and explaining how hard disabled people find it to get around I did have an affect to them and made them think that the need to make there door less heavy and wider. Looking back on it I would have done a view things differently I would have spent more time producing the poster and not rushing so much when we had to go round all the shops in Wycombe. I think others though I contributed a lot towards the activities since I did all the organising.
Evaluation of the contribution of others to the activity
There were many people involved to help co-ordinate and give us lots of advice on the activities we partook in. There were the very important people from Wycombe Youth action who were running our community activity and the head of wheelchair access in Wycombe district council. However the main contributors were the people in my team Victoria Atherton, Harriet Lancelotte and Adewale Akinwale who played a key part in all the rolls.
Everyone contributed in many different ways such as collecting information, discussing about disabled access and helping us understand, giving us the wheelchair and the great opportunities for us to do this, giving us the wheelchairs. My team contributed towards teamwork and gave encouragement and used leaderships skills and compromises. All the team members were good teams and no one ever gave up they all found really interesting too.
