YHA programmes and activities provide opportunities for disadvantaged young people to broaden their horizons and explore the wider world. The work we’ve done with the organisation is varied and includes two films, an audio slideshow, a series of audio features highlighting the Breaks4Kids fund, a regional radio campaign to raise awareness around the School Trips initiative and podcast training for staff.
Having reported from several previous NCVO conferences, NCVO commissioned us to record interviews and voxpops at their annual conference in February 2009. Our reporters conducted short interviews with the main speakers and put questions to delegates on a number of topical issues. We then worked alongside a photographer to create an audio slideshow that provides a lasting legacy for the conference and a useful marketing tool for the organisation.
sounddelivery has run bespoke in-house podcasting workshops for a wide range of organisations. The hands-on workshops offer participants a practical guide to understanding, developing and producing audio content. Our aim is to help organisations explore how audio content and podcasts can bring value to their work – and give them the skills, knowledge and confidence to put their ideas into practice.
We’ve worked on several multimedia projects as part of the Museum of London’s social inclusion programme, which helps young people, adults who are long-term unemployed and others at risk of social exclusion to engage with their heritage.
sounddelivery has an ongoing relationship with Youth Action Network, delivering training to their young people and youth leaders. We have also produced a series of audio case studies for their website.
sounddelivery was invited to deliver two multimedia workshops for primary school children at the Sir James Barrie school. Pupils developed skills in photography, podcasting and writing to tell their own stories about their local community and neighbourhood.
We partnered with societyguardian.co.uk to produce a pilot mental health podcast to mark Mental Health Action Week 2008. The magazine-style programme – the first societyguardian had ever commissioned – featured psychiatrist Paul Keedwell, author and columnist Clare Allan and chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, Andrew McCulloch. Clare previewed the TV adapation of her novel Poppy Shakespeare and poet Bose Dania talked about her experiences of depression.
sounddelivery was commissioned by the UK Patent Office to produce a series of audio podcasts to support their Think Kit schools project – a free educational resource aimed at key stage 4 students.
We believe there are some great opportunities for museums, archives and heritage organisations to use new media to build closer relationships with audiences, so we were very excited to have a chance to deliver practical hands-on training to people working in this sector.
sounddelivery was commissioned to produce a DVD for Community Network, to highlight the work the charity does to support socially isolated people through telephone groups. The charity helps bring together people who are housebound due to caring responsibilities, illness or old age and provides them with opportunities to talk with a group of people who can share their hopes and fears.
