Community Media Forum Europe

Community TV Trust is now an organisational member of CMFE and is participating in their first conference being held in Cyprus. A plenary session on Day One featured a panel on community media and the Arab Spring with speakers from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya (by Skype from Benghazi), Syria, Jordan. An inspiring discussion with examples of [...]

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Future of Local Television

Chris Haydon, director of Community TV Trust, sat on a Westminster Media Forum panel in October with Greg Dyke, former Director General of the BBC, and other leading advocates of local TV in the UK. The CTVT position campaigning for online media practice rather than employing the broadcast model for local media puts CTVT in [...]

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CTVT/DCMS Meeting re Local Media: A Role for HMG

Chris Haydon, director of Community TV Trust, had a meeting yesterday with the Media Team at the Department of Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. Haydon was invited in to brief the team on the work and views of CTVT in relation to the Hunt plans for local television. All along CTVT has opted for broadband/online [...]

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Local Media: A Role for Government

To all practitioners of local media, DCMS Jeremy Hunt is chasing something that is simply not on the same page as local media – with its low costs and low overheads, and all its attendant benefits to participants and local audience. See below the CTVT response to a recent Westminster Media Forum:           “The Future of Local Media [...]

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“London Young Voices”

“London Young Voices”

Young London Voices is designed to encourage young people to demonstrate their creativity and positivity.

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Jan 2012 NEWS.1

Community TV Trust is to work with the new Borough Road Gallery, setting up under the wing of the London South Bank University. It will feature the Sarah Rose Collection of David Bomberg paintings bequeathed to LSBU. Curator Mary Paterson has approached CTVT to devise and run a filmmaking project with a Southwark school to engage [...]

Two Day Filmmaking & Local Media Workshop

We are offering a 2-day workshop this June on local media, both theory and practice. It will be held at the Elephant & Castle area of Southwark, and will suit students of media as well as local practitioners and managers seeking to expand their media understanding and expertise. Given young people’s facility with all things [...]

London Young Voices 2012

We are planning a formal screening for July this year to conclude our three year project promoting positive filmmaking with young people in Southwark and south London. Discussions with South London Gallery are proceeding to identify a suitable date prior to the Olympics.

CTVT 2011 Update

The Travellers heritage DVD commissioned by Southwark Council was launched at Tate Modern in June 2011 in the presence of the Mayor of Southwark; films inspired by Yinka Shonibare’s Fourth Plinth ‘Ship In A Bottle’, made by students at St Saviour’s & St Olave’s, were screened at South London Gallery on 23 March; CTVT Director Chris [...]

Prendergast Vale College

Community TV Trust’s director, Chris Haydon, is now running two media courses at the new Prendergast Vale College, a specialist science school in Lewisham. TV Studio Production has been running since September, exploiting the school’s TV studio facilities to the maximum. Helen Bowman Dalton, Director of Learning, English & Modern Foreign Languages: ”Chris’s work with our year 7 [...]

CTVT speaks up in Cyprus Conference

Community TV Trust attended the 3-day CMFE conference in Cyprus, discussing Developing Convergent Community Media and catching up with Europe’s extensive range of community TV and radio ventures. CTVT remains wedded to media practice outside regulation and believes in fostering links with Education and local authority, local agencies and partner groups and schools. The host organisation, [...]

Funding from Southwark Police

Community TV Trust has won a grant that will fund work in Southwark on local gang culture. This is part of a larger DVD project that CTVT has been planning for some time. Partners for this first tranche of work are Synergy Youth Council and Safer Southwark Partnership/Bell’s Gardens. In 2005 CTVT produced a large [...]

Community TV Trust

Community TV Trust [CTVT] specialises in local media, giving training to people of all ages and abilities, facilitating vision and production. It also produces films and educational DVDs. It campaigns and through its founder, Chris Haydon, gives talks and papers at conferences, seminars and educational events.…(more)

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