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Stephen Boyce from NBS, Lorraine Huggett from LHI and Delroy Ford from the Queens Gardens project © John Rennie
Stephen Boyce, Lorraine Huggett, Delroy Ford also Stephen Figbe and Jim Hall from Action Space and Nichola Charalambou from Action Space © John Rennie
Stephen Boyce, Lorraine Huggett, Delroy Ford from the Queens Gardens project © John Rennie
Stephen Boyce from NBS, Lorraine Huggett from LHI, Delroy Ford from the Queens Gardens project Stephen Figbe (also from the project) and Jim Hall from Action Space © John Rennie
The Action Space participant David, is listening to sounds recorded in Queens Gardens, and interviews the group have conducted. © Project Worker Sam Haynes
Participants on the Action Space Queens Gardens project painting © Action Space Queens Gardens Project




Queen's Gardens Heritage Project
 Location: Croydon

* LHI's 1000th project *

A group of local people with learning disabilities will research the heritage of Queen's Gardens, an 18th century park situated in the middle of Croydon. The group will interview people from police officers to pensioners: the aim is not a chronological interpretation but a wider more personal view of the garden's heritage. the group will produce an educational exhibition of photographs to be displayed in the library and mobile display boards. The exhibition will run 16th Jan 2006 -12th March 2006 at Croydon Clocktower. Please call Action Space for further information on 0207 209 4289.

To ensure high quality outputs the group will attend workshops which will develop their skills and will be facilitated by specialist curatorial and photographic experts who have experience with working with specific learning needs. The group will interview 1500 people and their memories will be recorded and collated by the group with support from an editor, into a booklet that will be distributed freely to visitors of the gardens.

NBS award will be used by the group to buy specialist equipment to enable the group to produce a large part of the exhibition with professional support and tuition and engage in outreach work with other social groups such as older and less mobile members of the community.


Group Name
Action Space London Events Ltd
Project Postcode WC1N 2NP
See also Action Space London Events Ltd website

Grants:
Heritage Lottery Fund: £16098
Nationwide Building Society: £5000



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