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Wirral TV has now launched it’s own website here: http://www.wirraltv.net/
This website will no longer be updated and will eventually be deleted.
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Welcome to Wirral Community Television Project
The borough-wide scheme means that residents of Wirral now have the opportunity to train in video production and see their own videos on a special website - see the Training or Latest News sections for more information.
With the aid of grants from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, the Single Regeneration Budget and Riverside Housing, a two-year pilot scheme will provide the kit and specialist training for what could become Wirral’s own community television service.
The project, which is administered by Birkenhead Sixth Form College in association with local community trusts, is aimed at all sections of the community and for all age groups. The training courses will give trainees the basic knowledge to allow them to make their own videos.
The idea is that local residents should have the chance to make videos about anything they choose: a local band or football team; an environmental project; a campaign to clean up a local beauty-spot; local history… the choice is as broad as your imagination!
Wirral Council’s Road Safety team has its own specific priorities and has contributed to the project to encourage local young people to work on videos which deliver essential road safety messages, mostly aimed at their own age-group.
As the pool of expert video-producers grows, we hope that the project will be able to tackle and deliver public information videos on other issues such as health, community safety and the environment.
Now that the project has its own website this means that it can act as a showcase for videos made by local residents whose work can now be seen all over the world.
The project is managed by Bright Field, a company which specialises in community and neighbourhood television ventures (and which has run community-based video projects in Knowsley, Camden and Birmingham). The directors are Ian Kellgren, who was the longest-serving Artistic Director of the Liverpool Playhouse, and the former Granada reporter/producer Chris Kerr.
For further information about the project please contact us.
