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Then and Now:
Teens through the
Time Warp
A Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots Project
Elizabeth Neathey
Why the Teens project?
• Engage young people with North Somerset
Museum Service
• Create an opportunity for intergenerational work
• Build a partnership between North Somerset
Museum and North Somerset Council’s Children
and Young Peoples’ Services (CYPS)
• To create an oral history archive about youth
culture from the 1950s onwards
• To create a high quality exhibition sharing
memories and research on youth culture in North
Somerset
Where to begin?
• A meeting with North
Somerset Youth
Service Participation
Officers
• Finding out about each
other’s roles
• What could a
partnership achieve?
Talking to Young People
• What did they think of the Museum?
• What would they like to see achieved?
• How would they like to get involved?
Making the Case
• Agreeing ideas with a working party of young
people
• Looking into funding opportunities
• Team meeting with Sharon Adams to discuss a
possible Young Roots Grant
• Team Meeting with Directors of CYPS,
Development & Environment and Principal
Youth Officer
• 100% support for the project application to HLF
Success!
£22,100 Young Roots
Grant awarded May
2006
£5000 match funding
from North Somerset
Youth Service
The Team in Action
Agreed project roles & responsibilities Project Management Oral history
Research Marketing
Skills and knowledge development
Oral history training
Marketing training
Hands-on experience; managing time,
resources and taking ownership
Agreeing the themes
• School
• Work
• Music
• Entertainment
• Relationships
• Politics
• Youth Culture
Getting to grips with Oral History
• The team liked this as a way of gathering information
• They received training from the Oral History Society
• The team organised a series of oral history days
which brought people together
• Recorded 54 interviews of teenagers from the 1950s
to the present day
• Each oral history was transcribed and a digital copy
saved
• The archive was deposited with Somerset Heritage
Services
Putting on an exhibition
The young people learnt how to:
• Write exhibition text and labels
• Handle and display objects using conservation
standards
• Select and work with a designer
• Effectively communicate with a wide range of
people, from the media and council staff to
audiences including other young people
Then and Now – The Exhibition
The Exhibition
opened on
21 January
2007 and ran
until
15 September
2007
Outcomes
- Positive engagement with young people
- Young people gained new skills and knowledge
beneficial for their future journey’s
- The creation of a top quality exhibition
- The creation of a unique archive
- Emphasis on the value of intergenerational
working
Benefits of a Young Roots Grant
- Enables quality outcomes for projects
- Key investment in supporting heritage
organisations to proactively engage young
people
- Gives young people a sense of ownership and
identity
- Provides unique informal learning opportunities
- Builds museum and heritage audiences for the
future
Further Information
Elizabeth Neathey, West of England
Museums Development Officer, (Bath and
North East Somerset and Swindon)
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07887 451 759