The new campaign, called “Our Future”, involves 22 youngsters from all over the UK and the poster featuring them - photographed by celebrity snapper Rankin - will be on billboards throughout the country from this month. They appear alongside fellow NCS graduate Jermain Jackman, who took part in the programme in 2012 and went on to win the BBC’s The Voice last year.
Gobinder, a 17 year-old student at Soar Valley College, and Vishal, a 17 year-old student at Rushy Mead School, are two of more than 130,000 teens to have taken part in NCS since the programme launched in 2011.
During his NCS, Vishal went to Beaudesert Park High Adventure in Staffordshire for a week of adventure, went on a residential course at De Montfort University called A Taste of Student Life and then took part in a fundraising project for the Leicester Hospitals Charity.
Gobinder’s time on the NCS was involved with a new group called the Altrueists, set up by young philosophers to develop new ideas about international problems.
Speaking to a local newspaper about his experience with NCS, Gobinder said: “It’s been indispensable. I hope I can inspire other people who want to create social and political change on a national scale to say 'Yes'.”
NCS is for 15 to 17 year olds and involves holiday programmes where teenagers learn about the world of work, take part in activities and spend 30 hours on a community project.
Gobinder and Vishal were among more than 1,000 teenagers in the county taking part in the scheme in Leicestershire last summer.
