As season two draws to a close and the rest of the year approaches, as a service, we thought it would be a good idea to take some time to reflect on our first ever two seasons of Sustainabrew and mark the end of the grade 10’s partaking our service. As a group, we discussed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that existed and what we could be striving for in the coming seasons.
For strengths, we said that we were quite good at organising the necessary resources and materials that were required for events that we were asked to cater for, as well as communicating and collaborating within our group and with the service office in terms of logistics. When it comes to weaknesses, personally I would say that we weren’t actively making an effort to talk and liaise with other services within UWC and definitely not outside of our community. This leads to me to opportunities that are available to us that we should really be taking advantage of such as more events (now that we have access to the calendar), finding more ways to be efficient, and perhaps linking to that last point, connecting more with the gardens within school so that we could set up a mutually beneficial gardening system, making us more sustainable in general. Some threats that are enabling our efficiency as a service include the latest status of the Coronavirus in Singapore and how it prevents large gatherings, the length of time required to grow the ingredients that we want to include in our drinks – whether it would be smart to buy them rather than grow them, and probably the most important one of all, awareness of our service and how we’re advertising ourselves. We haven’t reallyyyyyy made a solid and informative poster, which is on us, but that pretty much limits who knows about us and whether they use us for their events or not.
For the rest of the year, I really hope that we can use this momentum and move forwards and more effectively with our planning and, despite the newfound difficulties with the Coronavirus, provide more drinks for events because that’s what we love to do!
#LO2 #LO6
