On the 21st August, Inclusion Hampshire was lucky enough to have had our music room renovated by Carol Herring and her team of volunteers from one of the world’s leading IT companies, IBM.
Thank you lovely volunteers!
Before they arrived, our music room was a dark, cramped and uninviting space – containing a sink a cupboard. But Carol and her superb team have transformed it into a modern and professional music studio Dr Dre would be proud of.
Before:
And after:
Carol and her team worked from 7.30am till 7.30pm (12 hours!) to do this for the young people who attend Apex. That amount of time and effort is unbelievably generous and giving – something that the staff and students at Apex are incredibly grateful for.
Carol organised and planned the redevelopment of the room in connection with our music tutor James to create an environment to suit the young people and allow James to teach in an environment engendering creativity. It is, frankly, a rather cool and stylish room that I’m sure many of the students will want to spend time in – even if they are not working on music or media! So far, all the comments from the young people at Apex with have been very positive – not an easy crowd to impress let me tell you!
This is not the first time that IBM have supported Inclusion Hampshire. Twice they have visited Apex to treat the students to a robot-building activities day – both times a huge success. We really hope they will find the time to come back some point this year!
Once again, thank you to Carol, her team and IBM from everyone at Inclusion Hampshire – staff and students – for your kindness and generosity.