Directions Unit - Ideas

I came up with an idea on what our group could use for the 'Hero' story.

Here is my main idea:

My Idea

Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance Trust -

"The Kent, Surrey and Sussex air ambulance trust operate two MD902 explorers out of our bases at Marden in Kent and Redhill in Surrey to provide our Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) across the region."

Our group decided not to go with this idea as there are similar programmes on BBC3 such as Junior paramedics and we wanted to create a documentary on something that hasn't been mentioned much before.

Group Idea 1

New Directions Mentoring Programme -

"The programme provides volunteer mentors to support young people at risk of offending or social exclusion to make a positive difference to their lives."

This was our first idea we looked into, we saw an advert while looking into volunteering charities online and they were advertising for more volunteers. While looking into the programme more we discovered it was part of the medway council and that there was an office for this charity in Maidstone.

Group Idea 2

Refocus -

"Refocus is a charity that operates as a community crime prevention service in counties of Kent and the South East of London. Our aims are to help young people turn their negative behaviour into positive behaviour through cognitive and behavioural techniques, neuro linguistics re-programming and various other approaches."

This charity really interested me as it shows that a criminal can change and in this case warn younger people to not make the same mistakes and use different approaches to help them be more positive about their lives. However we really liked our first idea and have decided to keep this as our 'Plan B.'

Overall we have decided to look into the New Directions Mentoring Programme more and see if we can use it as our main idea.