Social Committee
What is it?

The Social Committee is a group of students who put their creativity and planning together in a productive way in order to organise various events and socials during the course of the school year for the rest of the sixth form students.

Who is in it?

The head of the committee this year is Natalie Macrae and the Deputy is Leila Zid. The other participating members of the social committee are Dana El-Tawil, Hind Al-Fardan, Amiee Victoria Harrison, Nasser Al-Ansari, Callum Elsby, Leo Kalotheou, Joshpal Kalsi, Josie Fathers, Sayf Said, Lisa Djedid and Lulu Omara.

Every member’s input and involvement in the committee is essential and equally valued. We encourage everyone to voice their opinions and everyone is open to build on things people say and compromise when planning at all the meetings. The main aim of the committee is team work.
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How is it run?

Prior to events, meetings are held and every member is involved in one way or another as we assign roles for people according to what fits their interest and how they can contribute in the best way possible towards the committee. Certain tasks such as food & drink, decorations, ticket sales, posters, dj & music, gate duties and other duties are assigned to different members to be completed; however in the end we all work together as a team in order to accomplish all the tasks in the most efficient way.

We try to organise atleast one event every month; we already held a Halloween party, we are currently planning a Christmas party this month to get all the students in the festive mood just as the holidays come around and we also are planning ahead for our Leavers’ Ball which is currently scheduled for late April/ early May '10.
This year the social committee also wants to provide the sixth formers with something different aside from all the events. We thought it would be a good idea to get school jumpers with all the leavers names printed on the back as something everyone can take away to university so that we will always be reminded of the phenomenal experience we have all had at Doha College. The idea was proposed to many of the students and we received enthusiastic responses.

Although our main way of funding is through ticket sales, bake sales and sponsors, we are going to try and budget our money carefully this year so we can have more events and also we have come up with different ways of generating money such as fairs, leavers hand printing day, themed parties etc. just to give it a fun twist.

Why take part?

I believe being a part of any committee is a plus for anyone because you gain skills such as organization, a sense of involvement and responsibility, the opportunity to voice your ideas and unleash your creativity and also it teaches you the importance of co-operating with each other and that team work is vital when planning things for everyone to enjoy.