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Deaf community in Hounslow to record oral histories
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Deaf community in Hounslow to record oral histories
Location: Hounslow
Fourth disability project to receive Local Heritage funding in South East
A group of deaf people in Hounslow will shortly be recording signed ‘oral histories’ of their local community, with the aid of a £24,800 grant from the Local Heritage Initiative.
Run by the Disability Network Hounslow, the project will look at the cultural heritage in the community and will draw together the deaf and the hearing communities, by raising disability awareness in local schools and the wider community and through the outputs from the project.
The Local Heritage Initiative (LHI) scheme is run by the Countryside Agency on behalf of the Heritage Lottery Fund and helps communities appreciate the heritage that is on their doorsteps.
This LHI project is the fourth in the South East region which focuses on the disability sector. In January this year the 1000th LHI grant was given to the Queen’s Heritage project in Croydon, where a group of local people with learning disabilities are researching the heritage of Queen’s Gardens, an 18th Century park in the middle of Croydon. This project has been facilitated by Action Space because of the support the local people need.
And in March Furness School in Kent, which was formerly an orphanage known as the Swanley Home for Little Boys, started an LHI investigation of the school’s Naval heritage. The school provides secondary education for boys with emotional, behavioural and social needs and the LHI money went to provide specialist computer equipment, ensuring that all the pupils regardless of ability could take part in the project.
The fourth project is in Tilehurst, Reading, where the Kingsley Organisation is helping people with either physical or specific learning needs to interact and engage with their wider community, by recording the history of Tilehurst through photographs of the area, creating an archive of the buildings and features, some of which have already been demolished.
“These are particularly rewarding LHI projects, helping disadvantaged groups in these communities to work together to become involved in the heritage of their area,” says Lorraine Huggett, the Countryside Agency’s Adviser for the South East Region. “We would really like to see more projects of this calibre and with this focus and we would encourage any group thinking of such a project to get in touch with us as soon as possible.”
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