Students work on project for the homeless

Media students at the City of Bath College have been given thechance to design promotional leaflets for a local homelessnesscharity.

The group of 30 young people from the National Diploma courseworked on a real project brief for the Genesis Trust and some havenow seen their ideas published.

They produced posters and leaflets publicising the charity'sCanal Challenge event and Harvest Appeal, and redesigned a 12-pageinformation brochure.

Genesis has now chosen its favourite designs to be published,with 10,000 copies of the new brochure being distributed throughoutBath and the surrounding area.

The winning students were Scott Salter, for the Canal Challengeposter and leaflet, Simon Burdall, for the Harvest Appeal design,and Kayleigh Williams, who worked on the company brochure.

Media course leader James Purslow said the project had given thestudents an insight into the workplace pressures of communicatingwith clients and working to deadlines. He said: "This project gaveour students a taste of working in the real world and the stressesand pressures this can bring.

"They had to produce designs of an extremely high standard totight deadlines and make sure all their designs were in line withthe brief they were given by Genesis.

"The students were fantastic and coped with the pressures verywell.

"Not only will some of them get to see their designs published,but they have all learnt a lot of important skills that they will beable to take into the workplace."

Lynne Hardy, fundraiser at the charity, said she had beenimpressed by the standard of work from the students.

She said: "At the beginning neither side was sure how or if itwould work out, but I'm pleased to say it's been a real success.

"It was interesting to see the students progress from briefingstage through to completion of the designs.

"I think it was a new challenge for many of the students, both intechnical requirements and in interacting with a real customer.

"In all they handled it well - some a little shy, one or two abit cheeky - but all was finished to a very high standard."