"Southwark.TV" remains a priority for CTVT which is drawing up plans for a national rollout of its unique community media model. It is also pleased to announce a number of other ventures:

1    General & Advanced Media Courses
A raft of training courses across video, editing and filmmaking is being prepared by Community TV Trust. These will be offered in Southwark, probably at the City Learning Centre - an excellent amenity replete with fast connectivity, cameras, tripods, latest software packages. Whilst the Courses will be essentially practical, time will be given to media analysis and discussion. Mainstream negativity especially in news underlines the need for media literacy. Anyone interested in obtaining details, please contact Chris Haydon by email: chris@communitytvtrust.org

2    Recognition Awards 2005
A film of the latest awards night for Southwark young people has now been completed for Southwark's Youth & Connexions Service, with Chris Haydon as Producer and Louise Doherty of VAPA as Executive Producer. The event was held at Glaziers Hall, London Bridge in the middle of December and was filmed on three cameras. Post production was carried out at the Southwark.TV edit suite at Corsica Studios, Elephant & Castle.


3    Somali Community Media Project
CVT is supporting the Somali community in London - and subsequently aims to reach across the UK - in launching a community media venture designed to support sections of the Somali community that is especially in need. In the first instance, web space on the Southwark.TV website managed by Rockingham Somali Support Group will serve as the improvised web base for this multi-agency initiative. Somali leaders and media professionals from Southwark, Camden, Wembley, etc. recently met to formalise joint aims. Need is considerable: many families have no father, due to the long civil war in Somalia; a high drop out rate from schools among young Somalis indicates the scale of social disaffection; many older Somalis speak little or no English; there are health needs ... and so on. It is proposed to use the 'Southwark.TV' model of public website, deliver media training and encourage wide participation. The website will be bilingual. For now there will be news on the local Somali Support Group's section of the  Southwark.TV website.

4    Fair Street Documentary Project
CTVT is to produce a film of a year-long public art project run by a local housing office near Tower Bridge. Fair Community Housing Services raised funds to commission a professional artist to develop a 65 foot high, bare wall. Mark Dion is the appointed artist chosen by a residents committee. Residents will also receive media training and the Fair Community Housing Services has become another recent recruit to Southwark.TV for which it has now received its web training. Visit the FCHS site at: http://www.southwark.tv/FAIR/FCHSNews.asp

5    Freewheelers
Chris Haydon is delivering a project combining media training and documentary filmmaking around an Arts Council funded performing art project being produced for Freewheelers. The working title for the 'play' is "Rolling On" which will take us back to the 1969 moonlandings and the age of the Triumph Herald. Freewheelers are based at the Queen Elizabeth's Foundation Development Centre in Surrey which works with severely disabled young people to give them the skills they require to enable them to move on to a lifestyle and location of their choice. Visit the Freewheelers website at http://www.qef.org.uk/freewheelers/

6   Penwith DC, West Cornwall
A project delivering social enterprise skills to young people at both primary and secondary school was presented at the Tregenna Castle Hotel, St Ives in late November 2005. The event was filmed and is to be edited into a short promotional film.