New blog from Oldham’s Peacemaker project

Check out this new blog set up by young people from schools across Oldham who are taking part in the Peacemaker project. They set up the blog after taking part in a one-day blogging workshop. There’s already some great audio posted featuring some of the young people interviewing one another about their experiences.

People’s Voice Media is a case study in the creating social enterprise a guide for university staff published by Anglia Ruskin University

The guide is a very useful resource for social enterprises as well as for university staff.  The guide helps define  social enterprise, highlights the  benefits the Universities  get from  working with social enterprises, creating social enterprises, and gives links to resources available.  The guide lists a number of case studies and I am pleased to say that People’s Voice Media is listed as one of the case studies.  We have always worked well with the University of Salford and the relationship is now developing into a join partnership.  See the Guide

Life as an asylum seeker from one of our community reporters

See this blog from one of our community reporters about life as an asylum seeker.

People’s Voice Media is developing a national community reporters network

People’s Voice Media is working to develop a national community reporters network and has  partners in the South East,  South West,  East of England,  and Yorkshire.  This partnership is now starting to develop community reporters across England.

BBC presenter Ranvir Singh giving advice to People’s Voice Media community reporters

Ranvir Singh the BBC presenter for North West Tonight attended People’s Voice Media Festival of Learning event held in Manchester on the 30th October 2009. The event co-sponsored by the Media Trust and BIS presented a variety of informal adult learning opportunities to participants. Ranvir gave this piece of advice to the community reporters at the event.

People’s Voice Media on the guardian blog

Sara Hartley a guardian journalist has wrote about People’s Voice Media on a guardian blog about how like-minded online writers are joining forces to bring back community reporting. see the blog

Community Reporters interview Hazel Blears

Community Reporters from People’s Voice Media interviewed Hazel Blears about health related topics and Smart City Futures. The interview involved a number of reporters from Salford and will be shown at a PCT event to be held in June.

Digital Engagement

See this exciting blog on digital engagement

What’s happerning at MCIN soon to be People’s Voice Media

Here is an update on what’s happening at MCIN soon to be People’s Voice Media from Gary Copitch Chief Exec

Community reporters get on the BBC Big Screen in Manchester

A number of community reporters films were put up on the Big Screen in Manchester.  See the film about the event that appeared on the Manchester Evening News web site and also Channel M