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The London Transport Museum at the FUSE festival


 

Summary

Nine amazing young people volunteered for the London Transport Museum (LTM) for eight weeks to help them plan and deliver museum workshops at The Fuse youth arts Festival. Six of the team ended up volunteering for over 50 hours each! They all helped more than 160 people contribute their Tube Map memories to the LTM.

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This is what they had to say about the experience


Debraj Choudhury

“We all worked together as a group and shared our opinions. I also improved my communication skills by working together in the museum.”


Mohammed Haq


“By giving up our time, we had helped young people as well as all ages as well as the museum.”


Jakir Hussain

Currently things are changing for the better because... I have encourage[d] young people and people of all age range[s] to come to the museum and think [of it] as a better place that they would want to come to other than doing things like graffiti, computer games because it's nice to learn and discover new things that you haven't seen.”

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Nohman Younis

...I gained confidence by communicating well with each other in my group... which included concentration and listening skills. I concentrated with all my focus to understand what is happening stage by stage... as well as time keeping we knew what had to be done and the set deadline.”

 
Shabana Begum


“We did a range of activities to build a strong team and develop social skills and confidence. Listening skills were developed through considering other people's thoughts and ideas... I also gained project management skills when I worked at the festival as I was responsible for the different activities at different times and I had to ensure it was organised.”


Anael Wuta-Ofei

“I made a lot of friends with some of the people and asked one person to promise me that they would write their memories of their journeys on the tube map... there were lots of moments where I kept stuttering but I kept my pace and their attention.”

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Case Study courtesy of the London Transport Museum.

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