Projects

Delivering community based projects that promote our core values:

• Opportunity
• Equality
• Diversity
• Sustainability

Our team have the skills and experience to deliver projects to the areas and communities that are most in need. We make sure that projects enthuse and empower community members and always seek to work with local community leaders and residents.

Latest Project - Finsbury Arts Festival & Event Management Training

In 2011/2012 Talk Action is running a series of workshops training young people and community members in events management culminating in a arts & music festival in Islington. The main focus of the project is to improve the lives of the most vulnerable ‘hard-to-reach’ young people and community members by increasing their confidence, providing them with better chances in life, and inspiring them to create positive change within their communities. The project involves partnerships with St.Luke’s community centre steering group (25 people of mixed age, race and ethnicity).
The free training sessions run from December 2011 and culminate in the festival itself in April 2012.

Training Topics
Event planning
Budgeting (plus set design)
Marketing and design
Funding, sponsors, freebies
Licensing - Health & safety/Risk Ass/Safety Management
Film making
Management on Day & site management (plus Stewards, volunteers & Security)

Workshops Dates:
(Workshops:5.30pm & Events Team meeting:7pm)
16th Jan - Intro & Event planning 2
30th Jan - Planning 2 & Budgeting
13th Feb - Marketing and design
27th Feb - Licensing - Health & safety/Risk Ass
12th March – Film making
26th March - Management on Day & site management (planning your event site.Plus Stewards, volunteers & Security)
9th and 16th April - Events team Sessions - 1.5 hrs
21st April - Finsburty Arts & Music Festival

Location: St.Lukes Community Centre, 90 Central Street, London, EC1V 8AJ

Book a place jelliott@talkaction.org

(Project funded by Awards for All)

Methodology

We make sure we learn from people on the ground first and then work up from there to develop a project that has real social benefits and leaves a permanent legacy.

There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the ‘practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Jane L. Thompson, drawing on Paulo Freire

Talk Action works in partnership with organisations such as Friends of the Earth on their ‘Power Up’ event (2010 & 2011). The residential training weekend increases the legal capacity of local residents to influence decisions affecting their communities.

We also ran Defra's ‘Climate Challenge’ funded project (2009) where young people were trained to communicate climate change at Respect and Rise Festivals to over 70,000 people!