Students from Harrow College have taken part in the Discovery Channel’s annual volunteer activity day.
The channel, which specialises in programming that satisfies viewers’ curiosity and aims to make a difference in people’s lives, invited Harrow College learners to their offices for its annual ‘Impact Day’ on Friday 20 June.
During the ‘Impact Day’ Discovery employees volunteer for activities that benefit local communities and the environment.
This year Discovery asked Harrow College learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD students) to come to their offices to make clocks with them.
During the day, 30 Discovery volunteers designed and painted two styles of clock with the help of Harrow College students, who mixed paint and advised on colours and design.
The students will sell the clocks through their shop, The Paint Pots shop, at the college’s Harrow Weald campus, which was opened last month by the Mayor of Harrow, Cllr Nana Asante.
The shop is run and stocked by the LLDD students with the aim of assisting them with their learning in regards to customer service, stock taking, building business initiatives and working with the Harrow community to sell locally produced products.
Tony Medhurst, principal and chief executive at Harrow College said he was delighted that Harrow College took part in the Discovery Channel’s Impact Day.
"We are proud of the social enterprise skills our students display and it was a pleasure to share those skills by making clocks with volunteers from Discovery.”