written brief

Stephen Williams Written Brief

Community project

My idea was to help the community of St Helens locate local activity areas that maybe they didn’t know about?

These places could range from anything like play grounds skating areas or even small petting zoo’s!

I was going to achieve this by creating a website that anybody can go on and interact with, the site would include ways for the local community to blog or use a guestbook and locate areas they have found and explain how to get to them and whats there? they would even be able to  upload pictures from there phones directly to the website.

The website would cost just £5 and I would look at getting the word out about the site by using social networking sites like facebook and twitter,

The website itself will be made very simple to navigate and also be very self explanatory and I would use simple colours that are similar to the colours of the st Helens council website

The website will be called; WHATS WHERE ST HELENS.

I believe the community of St Helens would find this very useful, as it’s a great way for people who are new to the area or not get around

I started by researching locol community project around the country to et a feel of what there is ? what there trying to do? And how they are doing it; this I thought would help me find the best way to develop my project and help me achieve my goal!

I looked at several community projects that used art and photography as a way of doing community projects

Some of the community projects I looked at was

EASTSIDE EDUCATIONAL TRUST - www.eastside.org.uk

Eastside is a highly acclaimed, award winning, arts education charity and londons leading youth arts provider,

They offer a comprehensive range of creative and cultural experiences which introduce children and young people to the arts.

TAKE A PART- www.artscouncil.org.uk

This is a community arts project that uses contemporary  art to generate the area of Efford in Plymouth

Since 2009 community groups, residents, and organisations in the efford area have worked directly with artists from all over the uk explore efford and its future,

Different events have taken place in various community spaces in efford including the library ,a care home ,local schools and youth centres,

The project is backed by the national lottery.

After researching other community projects I then had to check if anybody else has done what I was thinking to do in the st Helens area and I found that they hadn’t

I then had to write a proposal and I did this using the power point below

1 START

 2 VISION

 3 IDEA

4 FUNDING/COST

5 RESEARCH

The powerpoint was nessesery to help show possible funders what my goal was!

THE WEBSITE

I found a fantastic website builder called create.com where I was able to create a website and a blogging service for just £5 this give me the freedom to create the site exactly how I want it and also make it simple for the user to go on.

Here is the website builder create.com below:

here is the website www.whatswheresthelens.co.uk

 In short;

Community Project

Mapping community activites and locations together

Vision

•To create a database in the form of a website that helps the local community find activity areas  

•To get the community to discuss what's on when and where?

•To get the St Helens community involved in a local project

•To create a database that runs itself almost  

BACKGROUND & IDEA

WHY

I believe the community of St Helens would find a website that helps find local activity centres in there area very useful!

It’s a great way for people who are new to the area or for people who don’t know there way round find fun or interesting places for them and there families and share there thoughts and pictures online of the town of St Helens.

IDEA

To map out local community activity areas to show my local community ”WHO DON’T KNOW” Where the local activity areas are ???

This includes parks, play grounds , petting zoo's and skating areas.

I would generate a map of my local community using a web page and then i would get people to take fun style pictures of there local immunities and send them to me’ these then would be added on to this web page map and have details such as what it is ,where it is, and what there is to do there!!

I would also like to create a forum for people to discuss areas and ideas to each over.

The site would also be linked to social media such as facebook and twitter to help get the word out,

COMMUNITY TASK

I would like the community to self map the interesting places to go by sending pictures of local amenities and commenting on what’s there when they find somewhere interesting that maybe other people would enjoy?

I would want community to send the images and information to this website www.whatswheresthelens.co.uk and also use the blogging service or guestbook found on the above site they can also email there images and information to whatswheresthelens@mail-me.com

The images will then be put on the site with there comments where other members of the community will be able to find,comment or add to the information provided.