Hello Everyone

Hello

I’m Ashling McGee and I will be coming as part of the UK team for the project. We had a meeting on Monday morning and so now I am very much looking forward to the start of the project and meeting everyone. It will also be my first visit to Finland, so cannot wait.

I am the company and volunteer manager for Haringey Shed. Haringey Shed is an inclusive performing arts charity based in Tottenham, London where we work with young people aged 7-25years old. Our work is centred on the performing arts with theatre, dance, music and singing however we also do a lot of extracurricular development with our young people. This includes training them up as mentors, volunteers, helping them get work placements and mostly giving them the skills they need to develop. We also work alongside many of the schools in the area delivery topic and issue based workshops and tours.

My career history has always focused around inclusion, community theatre and education. I have also worked as a learning support assistant at City of Westminster College with 16-19year olds and also worked as a teaching assistant at Fulham Primary School in reception so 4-5year olds and an drama facilitators for infants and babies, so lots of annoying nursery rhymes and games to share with you all.

I am very much looking forward to meeting you all, learning a lot and hopefully bringing back lots of ideas for us to use at Haringey Shed.

See you on Saturday.

Many thanks,

Ashling McGee

For more information about what we do visit www.haringeyshed.org