Merry Christmas from Southmead and Brentry....

The girls on the youth management team have decided to get out and about and check out the lights of North Bristol. Here are some they will be going back to, to find out what motivates those who like to light up their houses and communities.....

Black Young Carers- Win Award and Meet the Mayor!!

Black Young Carers Youth Club won the Group Award for Building a Better Bristol. The young carers met the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Bristol. And ate lots of scones...

My Story- MediaBox Funding

Yippeee!!! We got some funding from MediaBox (First Light Movies), which is under the Department of Children and Families. We will be working with three groups of young people in Bristol and North Somerset. These groups are the Black Young Carers in partnership with Black Carers Project, young people from Shirehampton in partnership with Avon Youth Association Youth Bus and some Young Roma. We are very excited about the project as it will give these young people an opportunity to learn some new media skills and create some audio-visual photostories about their lives. The final photostories will eventually be shared on the larger Our Stories website (www.ourstories.org).

There will also be opportunities for other young people from around the world to share their stories with these young people. Links to past Vanishing Rites trainings from Uganda, Borneo, Kenya will also be uploaded soon.

The young people will update this blog themselves as part of the ongoing evaluation of the project. They will also be setting up their own website.

Contact Ina (ina@vanishingrites.com) for further information about the My Story project, and if you are interested in sharing your stories with the young people.