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Ashes to Assets Community Calendar
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Ashes to Assets Community Calendar
Twelve community groups of Tottenham will be profiled - one per month – with profits shared among each. The calendar will be a daily reminder of the positive assets and spirit of the area.
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Thanks to the riots of August 2011 the world tends to think negatively of Tottenham. We will work with young people of the area to show a brighter side, and to enhance their pride in their community. With our help, they will photograph and interview individuals and organisations who contribute time and energy to offering a service to local people. They will be telling the good news stories, in other words!
Often the 'unsung heroes' earn little, but contribute much to community cohesion and to improving the quality of life or long-term prospects of local residents. This well-designed attractive product will have an everyday practical function and funds raised will be reinvested into the community groups profiled and help them to continue with what they do.
What we'll deliver:
- Produce a calendar that celebrates community cohesion
- Sell calendar through Tottenham Traders and other outlets and reinvest profits in the community
- Visit, interview and photograph 12 local community groups
- Work with young people to write and illustrate 12 profiles of these community groups
Why it's a great idea:
It is a simple idea. The most important feature - the unique selling point - is that the Ashes to Assets calendar highlights the contributions of the small groups that make the big difference.
Production values will be high, and young people will be involved every step of the way, giving them valuable experience in writing, photography and design.
Profits, which we estimate will be between £2,000 and £3,000, will be reinvested into community groups and we will invite them, the local schools and traders, to help us get this calendar on the wall of every home in Tottenham – and beyond!
Steps to get it done:
- We ourselves have editorial, design and facilitation expertise and years of experience in project managing
- We will additionally offer an intensive week of 'work experience' to source the stories and photographs
- It is a spin-off from our online magazine so we will use our existing editorial team of young people to produce it
- We have been already been working alongside various community groups in 2012 including Tottenham Traders
www.dandelionproject.org showcases work done in 2012 with young people of Haringey.
Please show your belief in Tottenham:
Pledge £10 and collect a free calendar.
Pledge £150 and be a named supporter.
Pledge £750 and sponsor a month, with your logo and contact details included.
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How will the money be spent?Total £7,590
Costs Breakdown
This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. Before entering fundraising these costs will be confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified by the verifier.
Research, production and training young contributors in writing, photography, design skills
£5,000
25%
Printing and wrapping costs for 1,000 A3 sized calendars
£1,863
Total £7,590
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Big Soc. Training is a London-based social enterprise, launched in September 2010. We run social action media projects, undertake social research, and take a creative approach to passing on communication and life skills to participants.
Our biggest project to date is Dandelion, Young Citizens Journalism Project, an online magazine produced by young people in Haringey, and targeting young people. We encourage them to tell their life stories and voice their issues through photography and words. As practising creative industry professionals, we understand the expectations of employers and encourage a good work ethic. www.dandelionproject.org showcases our work.
Other projects have included: · ‘Deep Breath’, a quit-smoking campaign in partnership with the NHS and Barking and Dagenham College · Outreach provision for Media Trust, training young people in journalism · ‘Assets Trail’ for urban developers Arup, facilitating young people in Tottenham as they undertook interviews and took photographs and finally presented findings on regeneration needs at City Hall
About us: we are Helen Deal and Kaytea Budd-Brophy, and previously worked together in a challenging and diverse inner-London college community where over 230 languages were spoken. We both come from a creative background (writing and media; art and design) and prefer to engage participants in a practical, hands-on way, with the production of a creative product generally the final outcome.
How we engage participants: a relaxed yet challenging environment is the goal, where participants can work together on a specific brief to develop their communication skills, build confidence, and generally become more motivated and better equipped in any team situation or work place.
We encourage debate and help participants identify solutions to problems. Everyone should feel equally involved and positive about what they are doing. Typically participants project-manage themselves, after some initial skills-building activities with us or our other specialist associates. Our subsequent role is to guide, encourage and ultimately to hand-over a project completely. Ideally each project will have a long-term positive and sustainable impact on the wider community. Individual participants will so gain a sense of purpose from making a positive contribution.
Project Delivery Manager: BigSoc Training The Project Delivery Manager takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Contractor: Dandelion Project ( big soc training) The team responsible for building or installing the project.
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