Cranford Review 2018

Layba Nisar (year 9)
Layba joined the Big Local and has been an amazing
and influential youth action team member. Layba is
always positive and ready to help others. She is clearly
passionate about volunteering and has demonstrated
first class attitude. Layba has also started her own dance
sessions for children at Berkeley Primary School and
recently received £1000 funding from the Big Local
for her Debates projects. She was also instrumental in
our summer projects including painting the Brabazon
Community Centre and coming to our Parliament trip.
Sharanjit Kaur (year 9)
Sharanjit has been a great role model for other young
people involved with our youth action team. She
has been involved with our Politics and Life Skills
campaign and spoke in Parliament. Recently, she has
been working on developing a project to promote the
Sciences and Life Skills to our community (working
alongside Sharanjit Kaur). The project was funded
£500 by our committee and will commence in January
2018. Sharanjit has also supported us at our events
including our Traveller’s BBQ, Family Fun Day and
Community Fun Palace events and has helped organise
our awards evening. Sharanjit has also been involved
with our BFI project and has recently started dance
sessions for young children at Berkeley Primary School.
Sharanjit also helped us paint the Brabazon Community
Centre during the summer and ran side activities for
the children during the intervals She has also helped
create a number of short film productions, notably our
introduction film for the Heston West website and our
NHS prevention film.
Juhi Kumra (year 12)
Juhi has been incredible this year, she is always
enthusiastic and positive. Juhi helped organise a
number of community events this year including:
Christmas Fundraiser, Comic Relief (https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=BrJiNtXUhaA), Family Fun
Day, Community Clean Up Day (https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=xyYZNcbHmak) and the Great Get
Together with NCS. The Community Clean Up Day
film was showcased the Big Local Film Festival at
the University of Birmingham. Juhi represented us
at the Local Trust Young People Make A Difference
Event and presented at the event. Juhi also starred
in our Body Image campaign film: https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=2S9QHe8REXI and presented
the Family Fun Day film: https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Hu53J7ah8bY. Juhi completed her work
experience with Bounce Theatre during the summer
and received glowing reviews about her work ethic and
performance. Juhi was recently nominated and awarded
the Brian Clark Young Community Leader Award 2017.
Megha Dahdrai (year 12)
Megha is passionate about community and also about
global affairs. She has demonstrated excellent leadership
and communication skills and has helped organise a
number of community events including our Christmas
Fundraiser, Comic Relief, Cranford Fun Day and is
currently working on her Natural Disaster Awareness
campaign and helping us plan our Awards evening.
Megha also represented us at the Local Trust Young
People Make A Difference event in Essex and presented
to an audience about the benefits of volunteering.
Megha also secured summer paid work experience
with Bounce Theatre at our Big Local Summer School.
Megha is always coming up with ideas to help benefit
the community and has improved her confidence and
public speaking since started volunteering with us
nearly 20 months ago.
Geetanjali Kumar (year 12)
Anjali is always smiling and eager to help. Anjali is
passionate about helping others and has played an
important role in developing our youth action team.
Anjali has also been involved with a number of events
and has helped organise and deliver them. Anjali
represented us at the Local Trust Young People Make A
Difference event in Essex and presented to an audience
about the benefits of volunteering. Anjali also helped
us paint the Brabazon Community Centre during the
summer and ran side activities for the children during
the intervals. Anjali is an amazing person with lots of
energy and enthusiasm and has been an invaluable asset
to the Big Local.
Kavleen Auroa (year 9)
Kavleen has volunteered in drama productions as an
Assistant Director. In this role she has taken on large
responsibilities helping shape the artistic vision of the
production and planning and delivering appropriate
tasks in order to nurture skills in other students.
Harpreet Kaur ( year 12)
Harpreet has gone above and beyond a normal student
and has shown dedication not only to the subject area
but to the community as a whole. Harpreet was a
successful applicant and was chosen to take part in the
UAL spring school. She also volunteers and participates
weekly in helping the Heston West Big Local giving a
lot of her time to help others. Here she has helped to
run and plan events and also has run art sessions for
younger children in the community. She is also setting
up a sewing class that will run on a Sunday and will be
working with young people to promote ethical clothing.
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