The Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) report ‘Higher Ambitions’ (November 2009) highlights the University of Salford Digital Cluster as a key example of a British university supporting new sector growth and engagement.

This report describes the Digital Cluster as “a forum and centre of excellence, which combines and leads on high quality research, academic enterprise and teaching in areas of informatics, digital media, and new and convergent technologies”.

Read more on the Digital Cluster website at: http://www.digital.salford.ac.uk/cms/news/article/?id=38

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

See this exciting blog on digital engagement

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