Look under CTVT Projects to see what we have been up to with Cavendish School in Bermondsey – we are just completing our latest film project with them, and Freewheelers Theatre & Media Company in Leatherhead.
We are now well established with both and enjoying a rich seam of creative work with students and members alike.
Funding has been raised to support more filmmaking at Southwark’s Cavendish School in Bermondsey. We are delighted to continue our work with this wonderful school and its excellent young people. The current project is scheduled to run till the end of January 2017.
The national platform that is the Community Channel via crowdfunding has found a way forward, not least due to Sky giving 50% of the target figure of £300,000. Congratulations to Caroline Diehl and her team!
A Community Channel owned by the community offers a tantalising prospect: local media organisations together with local radio/TV stations could create a network across the country that feed a national platform as well as their own individual outlet. Campaigning anyone?
When you consider the disconnect shown by the Labour Party’s current difficulties over working with a leader whose popular mandate is not mirrored by the Parliamentary Labour Party, social media plus local broadcasting becomes a real player for change.
PECKHAM PODCAST channel with all the editions and a few trailers can be found on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@PECKHAMPODCAST-r2f
NEWS: As of 21 May 2025 the podcast with Lord Biggar CBE is available. His book “Colonialism – A Moral Reckoning” made an impact, some of it negative for him. Biggar, Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral & Pastoral Theology at Oxford University has become a champion of free speech in universities as well as in life in general. He sits in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches.
Cllr Naima Ali, recent Mayor of Southwark, is a warm, courageous woman and shows there is a way to make multiculturalism work.
Louise Dickinson of Alchemise Theatre showed “The Power of Daring to Hope” as she described her journey back from Long Covid, bed-ridden, wheelchair bound, learning to walk again … you name it. A young woman of courage and character. Here is Louise.
Jo Berry of Building Bridges for Peace is a remarkable campaigner and has been for decades, following the IRA’s bombing of a hotel in Brighton in 1984. Here is the link to Jo on PECKHAM PODCAST in March 2025:
Meanwhile here are some of the PECKHAM PODCAST 2024 stories –
Nick Dunne is a man of Faith and determination who became a pilgrim. You’d need that if you’re going to walk to Italy! There’s a marked trend towards this form of undertaking, in contrast to falling church attendance.
The edition released on 11th December with guest Charlotte Prendergast:
Charlotte Prendergast is CEO of Southside Young Leaders Academy in Peckham. Its focus is solely on Black boys who under-achieve in local schools. “What a wonderful discussion about how a different school curriculum could change the world.” (James of Peckham)
Michelle Baharier FRSA is an artist and campaigner for mental health and disability rights. She lives in south London, used to run CoolTan Arts and is our latest guest on PECKHAM PODCAST, tackling dyslexia and the Assisted Dying Bill, among other things.
Wallee & Errol This edition of PECKHAM PODCAST is lots of fun, has film clips(!) and features two guests – Errol McGlashan, ex-offender turned poet and performer, and Wallee McDonnell, Artistic Director of Celebrate Life and producer of “POWER to CHANGE”, a film in which both men feature. Episode link.
Stephen Bourne is PECKHAM PODCAST’s sixth guest, a Black British History writer for Black History Month:
PECKHAM PODCAST offered as its fifth edition – Ben Sturge, a businessman and entrepreneur, a deep thinking man who rebuilt life after time in prison. He has a lot to give.
Ben can be viewed here:
Probably PECKHAM PODCAST’s most unusual guest to date is Fernando Carrillo, Peckham’s newest vicar. He was born in a Miami prison and ordained in St Paul’s Cathedral! Joining the breadcrumbs is amazing.
Community TV Trust [CTVT] was incorporated 25 years ago and offers media training & filmmaking in schools and PRUs and in workshops for the disabled and marginalised. Engaging young people in open-ended creative work, links Community to Education.
In addition we produce documentary films, in the past educational DVDs and a large web-based local media venture called “Southwark.TV”.
CTVT has worked with schools, PRUs, local authorities, community groups, companies and corporations, with mental health, disability, ex-offenders and the marginalised.
Southwark Council
Safer Southwark Partnership
Dragon Cafe / Mental Fight Club
Sustrans
University of East London
Metropolitan Housing Trust
Community Action Network
Education In Human Values
St. Martin’s Estate
Lambeth E-Learning
Newham Young People’s Organisation
Young Parents Project
Creative Partnerships
STEP Theatre
Metropolitan Police
Southwark Pensioners Action Group
TACT Ltd
Dept of Health
Tangled Feet
South Bermondsey Partnership
Freewheelers Theatre Company
Surrey SATRO/Alcohol Awareness
Penwith DC
Cornwall Neighbourhoods For Change
Bede House
Dulwich Community Council
South London Gallery
Prendergast Vale College
Somali North East Education Trust
Lewisham PCT
SLaM NHS Trust
Cavendish School
Pelican TRA
Community TV Trust from its launch in 1999 sought ways to innovative in community media. How might engagement be achieved?
Southwark.TV – a ‘horizontal’ community project – ran from a pilot in early 2003 to 2014 when the site was archived. You can find it under the CTVT Projects menu or click HERE to read it. Once you have read the report you can also browse the Southwark.TV website from HERE
It foresaw the rise of social media and online activity, shifting away from mainstream media to portable/mobile devices and citizen journalism.
