RELEASE DATE 10 March 2005
TITLE GROUNDWORK TO LAUNCH TALKING BOOK
 

Groundwork Greater Nottingham is launching the Sneinton Talking Book project on March the 23rd, from 2-3pm at Sneinton Hermitage Community Centre, Sneinton Boulevard, Sneinton, Nottingham. Chloe Griffiths from Groundwork has been working with the children from the Sneinton Hermitage play centre, and local adults, to create a CD which records and celebrates the great diversity of accents and dialects amongst local people. The children were taught how to use a mini-disc recorder, and recorded themselves, and interviewed adults, finding out how many different voices there are in Sneinton, and how language has changed over generations.

The CD will be available free to all the children and adults who took part, and will be available to borrow from Sneinton Library, and the City Library.

The launch event is open to all. There will be refreshments and a chance to meet some of the people who took part. The project leader, Chloe Griffiths, said "The children have become expert interviewers, which has helped their speaking and listening skills, and it has brought people from all over the world together, to enjoy each other’s different skills with language. We are very grateful to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for their generous funding of this project."
 
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Background Information enclosed
Please note that all our projects involve people and communities and many have to be seen to be believed. They each have very different real life stories of transformation, they are very photogenic, and in order to continually improve our communities, we will be delighted to share more of these with you, including fielding interviews and making visits available to you

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

GGN has been established for 14 years

In a typical year we Groundwork Greater Nottingham works with communities to:-
· Develop and deliver at least 100 new projects
· Deliver over 4000 person days of youth activity
· Engage with over 200 local businesses
· Work in partnership with at least 80 schools
· Deliver 40 locally significant environmental improvement schemes
· Deliver 2 regionally significant conferences a year

We are currently working on 55 live projects

Nationally, Groundwork is one of the UK’s leading social and environmental partnership organisation’s, working with people, local authorities and businesses to promote economic and social regeneration by improving the local environment. Through it’s network of around 50 Independent Trust’s around the UK, from Tyneside to South Wales, Northern Ireland to Hackney, Groundwork uses the environment to improve their quality of life. Groundwork is an independent charity, which involves 60,000 adult volunteers and over 120,000 school children each year in local environmental projects. From small community schemes to major regional and national programmes, Groundwork’s local Trust’s work in partnership with local people, local authorities and businesses to promote sustainable developments in their local area.

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Notingham
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T: 0115 9788212
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