Start with a conversation.
Share where you are, what you have been doing and what you would like to learn or contribute. You do not need to have a finished project or a leadership role in mind.
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Alumni programs
Your experience can help someone else grow.
Continue learning, return to lead, or reconnect with the people and purpose behind your FFI experience.
Staying involved as an alumnus
Raklet is the online home for FFI alumni. Reconnect with your team, keep your profile up to date and explore ways to stay involved.
Looking for your next role? Explore FFI’s alumni opportunities on Raklet ↗ for the role descriptions and application details.
THE FIRST PROGRAM IS A BEGINNING
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Keep growing through your twenties
Your first FFI program is the start of a longer journey. As an alumnus, you can apply to return as an alumni leader, take part in trips to our campuses and pursue further leadership experiences, including programs such as New Orleans. Through your twenties, there are opportunities to keep learning, take on more responsibility and be challenged in new ways.
CHOOSE AN INVOLVEMENT THAT FITS YOUR LIFE
Put your experience to work.
Help with workshops, support a community initiative, introduce someone to FFI or ask how your skills could be useful to an upcoming program.
Discuss ways to contributeTake on a new challenge.
Explore facilitation training, program leadership or a fellowship. These roles require preparation, availability and a conversation about readiness.
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LEADERSHIP COMES WITH RESPONSIBILITY
Returning as an alumni leader
Seminar trainers help new participants through workshops, team activities and the first stages of the FFI experience. Alumni leaders take on a more intensive role supporting residential programs.
That can mean helping a team prepare for the day, encouraging participation, facilitating sessions and supporting the evening reflection. Alumni work with staff and other leaders to create a consistent learning environment.
Returning as a leader requires more than remembering your own program. It means being prepared to support someone whose needs, background and starting point may be different from yours.
Ask about alumni leadershipMAKE YOUR OWN LEARNING USEFUL
Alumni projects and fellowships
FFI fellowships combine continued leadership development with a contribution to the organization and its mission. Projects can be shaped around an established named fellowship or an alumnus’s own interests.
Fellows may help with programs, youth coaching, community engagement or curriculum development. The fellowship section introduces the named funds and explains how alumni can enquire.
Alumni have also taken part in advanced training focused on facilitation and social justice, including learning in New Orleans. These are examples from FFI’s program history; ask the team about the next available opportunity.
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YOUR COMMUNITY IS PART OF THE JOURNEY
Alumni in their communities
Leadership can happen in a conversation, a local project or an invitation to someone who feels left out. Alumni projects and community connections keep the learning active beyond a campus visit.
FFI’s Community Action Project archive shares the issues participants have chosen to address and the plans they developed. Bring the team an idea from your own community, or ask how to reconnect with other alumni working on related interests.
Explore community actionRECONNECT WITH THE PROGRAMS TEAM
Send us an alumni update
Your team name or program year is a good place to start.
Include where you are based, what interests you now and the time you could offer. The team can discuss current opportunities and any preparation needed.
Reconnect with FFIALUMNI APPLICATIONS
Choose your next role.
Seminar trainer
Help first-year participants through team-building seminars.
Alumni trainer applicationAlumni leader
Take on responsibility supporting a residential youth team. Google sign-in is required for this form.
Alumni leader applicationAdvanced training
Explore FFI’s published alumni roles, including facilitation and program leadership. Check each listing for requirements and current availability.
Explore advanced alumni opportunities ↗HELP SHAPE THE CURRICULUM
Bring your experience into the next course
Alumni work with FFI staff during fellowships and training to improve and expand the curriculum. Your experience as a participant can help shape what the next group learns.
How FFI develops its curriculumExplore the courses we offer
YOUR GOALS AND THE LEARNING BEHIND THE PROGRAM
A shared experience with room for individual growth
FFI’s approach brings together Individual Leadership Plans and our bespoke curriculum. An ILP connects what you want to work on with your contribution to the team. The curriculum gives that work structure through activities, discussion, community experiences and reflection, shaped around the people taking part.
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A project that continues at home.
In 2026, Shay was developing his Community Action Project supporting people experiencing homelessness in Belfast with food. Returning home became the next part of his FFI experience.
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