Out of the office, into the countryside, training this year's Young Speakers

Over the last 2 weeks, We Are What We Do has been travelling from the village of Eskdale in the Lake District to the Chew Valley in Somerset to take 200 16-18 year olds out of their schools and colleges and get them all geared up to be We Are What We Do Young Speakers. It’s been an inspiring, exciting and exhausting few weeks!

Before coming, everyone baked something for a friend (Action 30). We had bright blue cupcakes, brownies, banana bread, baklava, carrot cake, fairy cakes that spelt We Are What We Do, homemade bread and butter pudding … and more much to keep us going!

On the first day, each school group planned a campaign to run in their schools and made a 30 sec ad for it … ranging from ‘Do something for nothing’, ‘Learn to be friendly in another language’, ‘Recycle’, ‘Don’t litter’. One of our favourites short films, made by the Young Speakers of Valentine's High School in East London is around ‘Get fitter feel better’ - which you can see here:



On the second day, we focused on speaking and everyone got their We Are What We Do presentations up to scratch – which were simply brilliant and ready to be unleashed in the wider world!


All in all, another very successful year of Young Speakers training and looking forward to the coming year …