Participation – Citizenship Coursework

In the summer, my class decided to run a charity stall to mention money for our house charity, The British Heart Foundation. I knew manyone that recently underwent a triple heart bypass and thought that raising money for such(prenominal) a cause that could help to extend peoples life was an excellent idea. The temperature at school was becoming unbearable so I suggested that a great charge to earn money selling something that people need would be to run an drinking glass-cream stall outside the picnic area where the majority of the school eat their lunch.E realone hold that it was a good idea but we came across the problem of finding a pr grouch that we could agree on. So we decided to do some securities industry research and some members of my class organised a questionnaire in which students at our school were asked questions about their favourite flavours or how much they would be willing to ante up for one ice cream. We discovered that most people enjoyed strawberry, vanil la and mint chocolate chip ice cream and that they would pay around 50p for one ice cream with extra toppings.Everyone in my class had a role in participation, whether it was finding a place to store 30 tubs of ice cream or organising security so that people didnt try to get ice cream without paying. We all had to bring in one litre tub each and we stored them in the freezer. Buying ice cream wasnt a problem for most, however I personally found it hard to find mint chocolate chip ice cream and ended up buying plain mint ice cream or else. Also in the hot weather, some peoples generators had given in and their freezers had broken, so I offered to store some extra tubs in my freezer for those who didnt have room.My main role was organising what stuff we needed and who was supplying it. I brought in scoopers and calm down bags to place the ice cream in when we were selling it so that it didnt melt. Melting ice cream didnt become a problem as the dinner ladies openhearted offered to place a fridge outside the canteen with an extension lead to keep it running so that we could store some ice cream in the fridge outside.I also had another role in being a scooper and making the ice creams for people to buy, at the same conviction I had to keep an eye on people trying to skip the queue. I enjoyed being a scooper and in my opinion it was one of the better roles of the task, we even brought in music to motivate the scoopers and entertain people waiting in the queue.The disadvantage of being a scooper would probably be that after scooping for 1hr and 10 minutes my make pass felt numb and I couldnt move it. However the customers seemed to love it, probably because it was such a sweaty day and they needed something to cool them off, even the head instructor came down to buy some ice creams. People who bought ice creams from our stall then told their friends, a lot of people bought more than oneThere was some quarrelling when the people who were supposed to be running the stall didnt show up or their friends kept taking free scoops or abusing our extra topping redevelopment by pilling the toppings on. Although after they did this they did drop their ice cream on the floor, which serves them right. And they werent the only ones, because people kept dropping them on the floor it encouraged wasps, and we also broken profit, as we had to give them a new one.When the end of lunch drew near, I helped to count the money made in the day, this made me feel very responsible and trusted with so much money. There was also a lot of cleaning up to do, as well as putting grit the tables, cleaning the cool bags and counting our profit. We made approximately 150 pounds on the first day and because it was successful we were approached to do it again the next day.The second time around we knew where we went wrong last time and how to make our stall more efficient. This time I helped to re-decorate the stalls, make signs to place around the school and put leaflet s in the registers to remind people to bring their money to school for a second time. We also read out a notice in assembly.This time a lot more people came to buy stuff because the weather was warmer, and those who forgot their money yesterday brought it this time. At the end of the day we raised a further 172 pounds, and stupefying amount of money for one lunchtime. The school was very pleased and we got a lot of credit for our charity work. On the third day we decided instead of selling the leftovers to give everyone one each and we invited another form to join us. It was nice for me because it was actually my last day at that school. Afterwards we presented the canteen module with flowers to thank them for giving us freezer space.Our head teacher called it a huge success and many people wished there had been something like it when we had the hottest day in 20 years. Overall it was a good two days and we didnt come across too many problems other than minor disagreements about s taff rotas on the scooping table and we made a lot of money. They said that it is likely they will do it again next year, if I was still there I would defiantly suggest it, then next time we could sell something else like balloons or badges at the same time.