Usman Ahmed Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Based in Luton on Response Policing, I attend 999 & 101 calls of a varying nature, from concerns for welfare to mental health related issues as well as serious offences like stabbing and murders. Working in Luton, which is a diverse town where policing is very fast paced, a variety of incidents can be attended over a 12 hour shift.I have been part of 105 Special Constables that make up Bedfordshire Police Special Constabulary for 4 years and have volunteered 5400+ hours (as of July 2019 to July 2023), serving about 150 hours a month. I have been able to complete a number of courses, to up-skill myself including becoming an LGBT+ Liason Officer and Naloxone Trained.

After successfully completing the two year cadet programme, I move onto becoming a Civilian Cadet Instructor as a Service Volunteer. This role entails working with the Cadets and guiding them through the new 5 year programme, so they are able to have the skills to either move into a career within the force or transfer them to another role in a different business. Careers within the force include being part of the Special Constabulary, the Regular Constabulary (Full time) or a Police Member of Staff both full time or voluntary.

First Youngest Trustee at Luton’s Leading Youth Charity.

JNC Placement of 400 hours as part of University Degree.

I am part of the alumni network supporting the young peoples voice getting heard by the Trust, through this I am able to get my voice heard and help develop the programme further as changes are made that influence the way programmes are run. Through this I work with pass graduates and bring my experience of participating and working on the programme as well as my third sector experience to improve and develop the NCS experience. This opportunity also allows me to have access to more opportunities and represent NCS Trust and the network through this.

I have always been an ambassador for NCS, ever since I stepped foot onto the Summer Programme back in 2015, I’ve got nothing but positive things to say and I’ve had nothing but positive, fulfilling experiences that have helped me develop into the person I am today. NCS gave me a chance, a flavour into the world of Youth Work, Summer Programmes and many other 3 sector experiences like how a Royal Charter Body works. It also gives me a chance each Summer to work on programme and I have had roles ever since I was 16 as a volunteer, then Team Leader and this Summer as Wave Leader. Each roles brings its own challenges, learn curve and training to develop but it also gives me a chance to learn and make the programme between year on year especially as I have now been able to do the programme from the viewpoint of a number of different roles. As you can see it’s something that I am definitely passionate about!

As a young person, I wanted to learn more about how charities work, how they are governed and how they run amongst other policies and practices a charity has to follow to function and run properly in line with rules and regulations. This led me to get the chance to join the Board of Tokko Youth Centre and allows me to see the backend of working / volunteering in a charity.

NCS Skills Booster is an number of workshops that have been designed for Year 11s to get motivated and focused for the future post pandemic. The workshops focus on personal development, volunteering and social action and run within schools during term time. I have been trained to run and facilitate these workshops within schools ranging from 1 day up to 5 days depending on the schools wants and needs.

Supporting NCS Changemakers which is part of the Do More Phase engages young people after they have completed the core programme which is made up of the first four stages. Changemakers is an extension to the Do Good Phase, it allows young people to create or continue Social Action Projects, these can be brand new or the ones they did whilst on programme. Changemakers is a year long programme and allows young people to develop relationships with 3rd sector organisations in there local community and carry out projects and work towards participating in Action Day in April! My role as a mentor meant I was supporting the young people with their projects and facilitating sessions and planning to create successful projects.

UKYoS is part of the NCS Futuremakers Scheme which is an opportunity for young people to get involved in the Governments Kickstart Scheme and UK Year of Service, this can be from 6 months up to a year. This opportunity has seen me work with young people that are getting involved in that and facilitating a number of sessions online by being assigned a team and working with another facilitator.

Working on an NCS Trust run programme this is for young people that have been on the Future Makers Programme and have participated in Kickstart and UKYoS. Through this role I working on a week long programme in 2 separate locations North (Sheffield) & South (Swindon) as Head of House, which saw me overseeing the residential side of the programme and being the POA whilst the young people were asleep, I had to ensure the young people were safeguarded and complete handovers with the Safeguarding Lead.

Supporting LBD by covering staff shortages, stepping in to whatever role that needed covering from Wave Leader to Team Leader to Assistance Team Leader. Through this role, I would support programmes on a 1-2 day basis / as required to ensure that the programmes could still go ahead and enough staff members were on site as per NCS Trust policies.

Working for NCS Delivery Partner Learn By Design based in Luton, Birmingham and London leading 5 Summer Programmes and Schools Programmes. I worked with over 50 staff members and 500 young people being the main point of contact on the ground and on site whilst the programmes were being delivered. This involved leading them through the 2-week programmes, ensuring that the programme was delivered to a high quality, safeguarding issues and concerns were dealt with inline with procedures and the welfare of staff members and young people managed, as well as this ensuring deadlines were met e.g. compliance paperwork and risk assessments done on time and submitted in line with policy and procedure. I also covered staff shortages by stepping as a Team Leader or Assistance Team Leader as required, doing this I was still covering my main role as Wave Leader but also supporting a team of up to 16 young people.

London, United Kingdom

Working on the Extension Phase of the Programme which looks at how Grads can stayed engaged with NCS after they have completed the Summer or Autumn Programmes. This can be through a variety of ways, examples include becoming NCS Leaders, Advocates or coming back and working on the programmes as staff members (Team Leaders, Mentors amongst other roles). The Extension Phase is endless and always looking at how we can help Grads get involved in more.

Luton, United Kingdom

Working in the EA1 Region under the delivery provider Learn By Design. This role was over the summer on 2018 and it saw me lead a team of 16 young people, all aged between 15 - 17. My role was to help and support them through the 4 phase NCS Programme which included Phase 1 - Adventure, Phase 2 - Skills and Phase 3A & 3B - Social Action. I was able to help the Young People achieve a successful social action project, which helped out a local homeless shelter (NOAH Luton) through a Shoe Box Appeal, where the team made over 30 shoe boxes. These were filled with a variety of products that are useful for those sleeping rough as well as products that can be used within the shelter to help with rehabilitation and users that are in the process of changing there lives.

The community scrutiny panel holds the Police to account on stop and search issues and helps to improve its use of this important policing approach.The group, which meets bi-monthly, reviews complaints and promotes best practice. Its members reflect and represent the diverse communities across Bedfordshire.

I joined Bedfordshire Police as a volunteer Police Cadet, which was a two year programme. During this period, I held the role of Head Cadet in the second year. My role varied through learning and developing my personal skills including leadership as well as working across different departments whilst participating on duties. The duties included doing a variety things such as test purchasing which meant working with Licensing Team or participating in the Annual Luton Carnival where you would work with the Community Cohesion Team. These are just 2 of the examples of the variety of cross collaboration work that took place, work also included cross public sector connections too like working with the local Fire Services and with there cadet force.

I joined Bedfordshire Police as a volunteer Police Cadet, which was a two year programme. During this period, I held the role of Head Cadet in the second year. My role varied through learning and developing my personal skills including leadership as well as working across different departments whilst participating on duties. The duties included doing a variety things such as test purchasing which meant working with Licensing Team or participating in the Annual Luton Carnival where you would work with the Community Cohesion Team. These are just 2 of the examples of the variety of cross collaboration work that took place, work also included cross public sector connections too like working with the local Fire Services and with there cadet force.

This role allowed to me to create and start my own project in collaboration with Katrice Russell and in partnership with Bedfordshire Police. The project taught young people aged between 13 - 18 about the 5 different strands of Hate Crime, which are Race, Religion, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Disability and the 2 other strands only Bedfordshire Police recognise as Hate Crime which are Age and Alternative Subculture. It taught the young people through a variety of workshops held Bi-Weekly and included speakers from different community partners and community members. After the ambassadors where equipped with knowledge and key skills they were helped in creating workshops and PSHE lessons that they could facilitate within there schools and community groups they were connected with at the time.

This role saw me volunteering on the programme by supporting the Social Action Phase now known as the Do Good Phase, through this I worked with Seasonal Staff and helped young people create meaningful Social Action Projects. Following a number of successful projects, I was able to return to NCS as a Team Leader.

As a young person I participated on a 4 week NCS programme in Luton, it was run through Learn By Design. I really enjoyed the programme and was able to go back and support the Social Action Phase the following Summer, this then saw me get more involved in NCS and NCS LBD, I was then able to work on a Summer Programme as a Team Leader before getting my first ever full time role at the NCS Trust!

Youth Work (Jnc) (Ba Hons), Social Sciences

Business Administration, Double Distinction

A - Levels & Btec Level 3, Business & Finance

Activities and Societies: Sixth form Executive - This role was the Sixth form's version of school council, once again I was the Chairman.

Gcses

Activities and Societies: School Council - As the role of Chairman, involved in organising a variety of charity events and making lots.