With the beat of a Christmas party from the bar downstairs in the background, Dick Penny and Stephen Hilton fed back to the gathered Momentum Group current thinking around the bid, how it will be developed over the coming month and where the current gaps are. We have a number of people working on different [...]
17 October 2006
I travelled to Knowle West Health Park to meet with Cheryl, the Healthy Lifestyles Coordinator at Knowle West Health Park Community Interest Company, (KWHPCIC). We were also joined by Vicky Morris, chief executive for KWHPCIC, Sue Partridge, Operations & Development Manager with KWHPCIC and Louise Kane who is a Counsellor with Addiction Recovery [...]
13 October 2006
I went to The Park where I met with Phil Cotgreaves from Youth Moves. Phil told me that most projects have some sort of digital technology in them. He said that if you go to most youth centres they have equipment like digital cameras which young people regularly use with staff.
Phil said that [...]
18 October 2006
I went to the Park where I met with Lester Feckleton, music tutor, and head of levels 1 and 2 in music at The Park and City of Bristol College. Lester told me that his work is about engaging young people in music, and that the young people he works with range from [...]
Makala Cheung.
Press and Communications Officer, Knowle West Media Centre.
6 November 2006
I travelled to KWMC where I met with Makala. Makala began by explaining to me the ways in which she currently uses digital media. She said that she uses the laptop to scan in and collate any positive publicity about Knowle West. She emails this [...]
AbilityNet has been working with the Connecting Bristol bid interviewing and emailing local disabled people and groups about what they would like to see in their digital future. Jo Greenwell, from AbilityNet, has been in contact with several groups and was at the Watershed Meeting on the 14th December with a range of alternative keyboards [...]
On wednesday night Drew Mackie and David Wilcox led a group of Barton Hill residents through a card game which tested and developed some of the ideas that have evolved as part of Bristol’s Digital Challenge bid. We then worked on creating some fictional, but realistic, user journeys for a group of people in Bristol, [...]
6 November 2006
I met with Simon Willis who told me that he has worked for seven years as a detached youth worker in Knowle West and adjacent areas. He told me he had worked in Merrywood and Hengrove with young people on the brink of exclusion. Simon highlighted that detached work is very different from [...]