'Eventually, I hit more than I missed and realised: missing is a means to an end.
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It made me braver and I took more risks'
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This year, she represented her Stratford school at the UK’s largest youth public speaking competition and won, becoming the East London regional champion.
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She was one of 120 girls invited to a science day where the top five were rewarded with a week of work experience at Microsoft, and Jemima nailed that too.
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In addition, she secured a competitive work experience placement with Onside Law, the sports law firm representing Jannik Sinner and Rory McIlroy.
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And recently, she was made a prefect.
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Not bad for a girl who arrived in Britain from Bangladesh five years ago barely speaking English and too shy to raise her hand in class.
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Jemima attributes her transformation to the skills she has learned through tennis, a sport she once thought was “only for posh girls”, and, more specifically, to her Greenhouse Sports coach, Tom Sippy, who has been a mentor and confidant since she took up the sport three years ago.
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Today is the final day of our Sporting Chance campaign in partnership with Greenhouse Sports and we are delighted to report that the total raised has risen from £500,000 to £955,000.
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This is firstly thanks to a contribution of over £300,000 collectively from Bloomberg, Man Charitable Trust, Blue Owl, CVC, Pemberton, and BGC Group, long-standing partners of Greenhouse Sports – all this additional money will go to Greenhouse Sports to support its work with young people.
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Secondly, we have raised a further £154,000 from The London Community Foundation, which will be used to fund four additional charities.
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These four charities provide coach-mentoring and use rugby, boxing, dance and football respectively as the hook to engage young people
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Backing for our campaign also came from Paralympic table tennis world number one Will Bayley and British sprinter Zharnel Hughes.
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Bayley said: “Sport has shaped my life in ways I could never have imagined.
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It has given me confidence, purpose and a community, but I know it’s rarely just the sport that makes the difference.
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It is the people around it — the coaches, parents, your ‘tribe’ who encourage and believe in you.
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That’s what Greenhouse is for so many kids and why I am delighted to support this campaign.
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The Standard joined forces with Greenhouse Sports to deliver sports coaching and mentoring to young people in secondary schools across some of London’s most deprived boroughs.
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So far, £955,000 has been raised, with £550,000 going to Greenhouse Sports programmes in London and the balance to eight other youth charities across the capital.
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On this, the final day of our campaign, we call on corporations, foundations, philanthropists and our readers to donate to help us get to £1M.
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All funds raised will go to Greenhouse Sports programmes in London.
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Hughes said: “Working with Greenhouse brought back so many memories of when I was starting out: limited facilities but a burning desire to be something.
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What drew me to the charity is the power of sport, but also their staying power.
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Seeing how Greenhouse invest in young people over years, the same way my coach invested in me.
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That kind of consistency is everything, especially for kids who might not have it elsewhere.
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Sport opens the door but it's the people behind it who change lives.”
Jemima is a case in point.
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She did not come from a sporty family and had never considered tennis.
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As a newly arrived nine-year-old, she taught herself English by watching TV cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants.
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“I was a quiet girl who sat passively at the back of the class, so I wasn’t that great at school,” she says.
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“When they told us that Greenhouse was offering tennis in PE, it confused me because I thought of it as a rich person’s sport.
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A few of us switched from rock climbing and signed up.
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We did it on a whim.”
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Jemima had never picked up a racket and, at first, found tennis boring.
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But she persisted, joined the after-school club and improved rapidly.
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She made friends and earned a place in the school team, yet her parents were resistant.
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“We are quite a religious Muslim family and my parents are very protective,” she says.
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“They didn’t like me travelling home from the after-school club on the bus alone and they saw tennis as a distraction from my studies.
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I had to promise to get good grades to be allowed to continue.
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How your money can help Greenhouse Sports
£15 Could enable a young person to access their programme for a week
£65 Could provide 4 weeks of sports coaching and mentoring, helping a young person build confidence, resilience and a sense of belonging
£165 Could provide coaching and mentoring during school holidays
£800 Could provide a full year of coaching and mentoring, ensuring they stay engaged with school and develop the life skills to fulfil their potential
How did playing tennis translate into becoming a confident public speaker and being recognised for her leadership qualities?
Jemima says: “Coach Tom made me realise it is okay to mess up and miss.
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And because I was a beginner, I missed more than I hit.
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…and 71 more, not listed.
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