This is a FREE event that will take place at the Innovation Centre in
Chester between 7.00-8.30pm on 30th May.
Feel free to circulate to friends, family and colleagues.
Video Update on the Project
We recently created a short video showing snippets of some of the
journeys so
far, you can watch it here!
Journeys to Cheshire goes on the
radio
‘Journeys to Cheshire’ coordinator Neil Emmott was interviewed on local
Crewe community radio station ‘Redshift Radio’ on Friday 17th June. He
spoke about the Journeys to Cheshire project to the Polish radio
programme aimed primarily at the Polish migrant worker community in the
Crewe area. He was interviewed by Magdalena Raszewska who presents the
programme. Neil was asked many questions about the project both by
Magdalena and by members of the audience who sent in questions by phone
and email. At the end of the interview, Magdalena said that Redshift
Radio would help Neil find volunteers from the Polish community in Crewe
to take part in the project.
Three taster sessions for ‘Journeys
to Cheshire’ were held in early June in Warrington, Chester and Crewe
respectively. The events were to introduce our oral history project to
the public and to the various BME community groups in Cheshire.
The 3 events were fairly well attended and we have signed up a number of
volunteers to help out in the project.
The events covered the following areas:
1. The history of CHAWREC as an organisation. 2. What we do at CHAWREC and the services we offer. 3. An outline of the Black and Minority Ethnic
communities in Cheshire and an introduction to the various community and
voluntary groups that exist with those communities. 4. The background to the ‘Journeys to Cheshire’
project. 5. What an oral history project actually consists of. 6. The use of recording equipment.
A highlight of the sessions were when attendees enjoyed listening to a
selection of recordings from previous oral history projects from around
Britain that were supplied by Cheshire Records Office.
We are now looking to arrange training for volunteers that want to be
interviewers and that should take place within the next 2 to 3 weeks.
We were supported in these taster events by Cheshire Records Office and
Cheshire Shared Services (Libraries).
