Get Your Community Voice Heard With £500 Digital Media Grant

By A_McCormack | Thursday, November 26, 2009, 09:31

Media Trust is always looking to celebrate the varied and inspiring ways you are using digital media to help empower disadvantaged communities. Now Community Voices has 20 x £500 awards to give away before the end of March 2010 - that’s one every week.

If you’re helping to give your community a voice through digital media we’d like to hear from you, and so would many other communities seeking help.

Projects selected will be showcased on the Community Voices website, plus each project will receive a bursary for a place at one of our training events, and a wealth of additional communications support.

Media Trust’s Development Director, Gavin Sheppard, says “We know that there is a wealth of great digital media work already going on in the community, and these awards will help to highlight that excellence, and inspire new communities to find their voice and make it heard”.

If you would like to share your success story you can email Community Voices, outlining either in writing, video or audio, or however you feel most comfortable, the three following points:

1. How have you used digital media to give a voice to a disadvantaged community?

2. What impact has this had on the community?

3. Could this be inspirational to other community groups?

Please also include an attachment or link to your digital media product if possible.

Your submission will be judged by a panel of Media Trust staff and Community Voices will assign one award every week until March 2010.

To apply for a pilot project or if you are interested in becoming a media volunteer get involved here.

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I have had a look at this website. The Community Voices grants are brilliant for community projects. They give money to people to work on films/video, websites and other digital projects.

If you are involved with a community group, have a think about how they could help you. The web link is above.

By Nonnie_Mouse at 19:15 on 02/12/09
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I will be meeting Kim Townsend, Community Outreach Manager for Community Voices in Bideford next week.

If you have any questions or suggestions you would like me to put to Kim or would like to meet with her yourself please contact me on bideford@thelocalpeople.co.uk.

Amanda McCormack
Community Publisher
Bideford People

By A_McCormack at 09:35 on 26/11/09
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