street aware

Who is bothered if people with learning disabilities are victims of crime?
Do you feel coventry is a safe place to be? Are you bothered? Got anything to say? Then grapevine's media team want to hear from you.
We are starting a blog called street aware to find out what people really think.
People will have the chance to put their views and stories on it using words, pictures,video and sound.
People with learning disabilities are invited to come along to the launch street aware on Wednesday, October 21st, at 11-2pm, at the BBC Coventry & Warwickshire's Open Centre, Priory Place.
Zoe

now we are the news

our bed push is now on central vision's news channel click here to watch the 2 minute clip http://tinyurl.com/l2vdcv
please tell us what you think.

solving problems

We wanted to post our radio interview on this website so you could all listen to it, but couldn't find out how to do it easily. We asked Stuart from www.wesharestuff.org if he could help. He gave us some ideas and explained that the reason it was difficult was to stop people adding music tracks they weren't supposed to use. Stuart suggested joining a hosting site and then making a link from this site. Then we had an idea...
We had the radio clip and we had some great photographs from the bed push, so why not put them together in moviemaker and then upload it as we do with other videos.
It worked a dream, please have a look at the posting below. What do you think?
Now Stuart suggested we link it back to our twitter site, ok Stu so how do we do that...
visit www.twitter.com/grapevinemedia

Learning Disability Week Bed Push Went really well

We met up outside the BBC Radio Station in Coventry to do our bed push in aid of people with learning disabilities having the rights to stay up/out late. We all wore Stay Up Late T-shirts which were sent to us by Heavy Load who started the campaign for Stay Up Late. The media coverage was Central vision, The BBC, Telegraph and Michelle Tennison who is a freelance photographer. We pushed the bed up through the City Centre and along the way we were getting people to sign our petition and giving out leaflets and badges we stopped by Lady Godiva statue and went round speaking to the public to get their support. We then made our way to the Coventry City Council House to meet up with councillors to hand in the report and the petitions we also gave them T-shirts. The report had 10 case studies of people with learning disabilities not being able stay up/out late. Dave Musson has put a story about heavy Load & us on the daily dust. http://bit.ly/WlU1N
Below is a link to our radio interview with Annie Othan BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Learning Disability Week football match was a great success

We met up at the Alan Higgs Centre to watch a football match between a team from Grapevine and Some ex Coventry City players. The match came about because the health buddies had started training session with Paul Reynolds, the disability coach Coventry city football club. It was then decided to have the match in Learning Disability Week some of us were cheerleaders. The team wore Big Lottery T-shirts as they are the ones who funded the Media and Health projects. We drew 6-6, every body enjoyed the match it was good fun. Photos by dave. www.davemussonphotography.com Here is a short video clip

more daily dust stories

We had a great week for learning disability stories in the media. The latest story on the Daily Dust is about our football match against a side representing Coventry City FC. to read it link here: http://bit.ly/46SLhl
We will be putting all the photos and videos online in the next couple of days.

learning disability media success stories

We had a great day yesterday, lots of support from the public; 2 live radio interviews, photographers & reporters following us, and Centralvision camera man following us. Give us the weekend to sort the pictures and they will be posted next week.

Our 3rd rights video is now available click here:http://tinyurl.com/mvhxlb this is our stay up late video please be careful if you have seizures there is a lot of flickering, we have asked for it to be toned down. Still it is a great video. THANKS TO HEAVY LOAD for letting us use their music and good luck at Glastonbury guys.

We have been working with a reporter who has done 4 learning disability stories for learning disability week you can see them at: http://bit.ly/lKmln
http://bit.ly/WlU1N http://bit.ly/gwZZq and http://bit.ly/10gUYu The daily dust website gets 35,000 reader each day and 1.5million a month so lits of people will hear about us- THANKS to DAVE MUSSON.

We played the football match this morning and again we need a few days to sort out photographs and video clips.

daily dust good news stories

We have a young journalist working with us and Mencap for learning disability week. So far he has got 2 stories on the online newspage please follow the links:
davemussonhttp://bit.ly/gwZZq

davemussonhttp://bit.ly/10gUYu

videos about rights

We have had the first of our rights videos posted on Central vision for learning disability week; hopefully we will have the other 2 by tomorrow. You can watch them by clicking on the following sites.
Christisne's story is at http://tinyurl.com/n2felf

Rishard's story is at http://tinyurl.com/mf72mm
Wewant to say a big thank you to Christine, Rishard, Mel and Nicolad for doing such a grand job.

As soon as we can we will have them on this site. Please have a look and tell us what you think.

WATS!

Our young person's project WATS (We are all the same) funded by Camelot Foundation had their end of year evaluation event at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Friday. There was music from Soulful Choir and lots of short videos showing lots about what the project has done.

For more photos visit this website: :__ http://tiny.cc/fq7Yf

Disability week and welsh visitors

Just an update on what the media team is doing on Thursday and on learning disability week, we are having some visitors from Wales on the 18th of June. During learning disabilty week which is next Monday the 22nd of June, we are doing a bed push on the 25th of June which we are pushing a bed from the BBC then walking to the council house and then back to Grapevine. Along the way giving leaflets out and talking to people about it too. The reason why we are doing this campaign is because people with learning disabilities have to go back home because of staff change over and the campaign is called staying up late which is run by a punk band called Heavy Load who are a band with people with learning disabilities and 2 volunteers. On the 26th of June we 're having a six aside football match against ex Coventry City players at a place called the Alan Higgs Centre and there are cheerleaders too. Please make sure you show your support and vote on this site.

blogging with Birmingham People 1st

Today we visited Birmingham People 1st to help them set up a blog. We worked with Martyn, Christine Sue and Jonathan. We showed them this blog and then set one up for them. Alan took some photos. We liked the people and got on well. We had a bit of a laugh.Christine walked back to the station with us and this is a picture of Alan and Christine.

More from Alan the photographer

I helped Manjeet and Danny with a links event. I took some photos for them on the day and I also enjoyed myself. I helped Manjeet set out the food out on the tables.
I helped Michelle the professional photographer. I organised the group photo, so Michelle could take the picture. I had to move chairs around and Michelle gave me some tips on how to take the photos. Manjeet said she wanted the group photos so we had to get people sitting on chairs and people standing at the back. I told them to shout Grapevine to get them smiling.
I also helped to tidy up at the end of the day
By Alan.

Staying up late campaign

Heavy Load a punk rock band with have a single out called Stay up Late. They had noted that people were going home early from their concerts and this made them angry. We thought that it was happing in Coventry so Peter took photos of a D:vine night. The photos showed that early on the place was full, but after 9.00 it would empty. Some of the team have written a survey asking people if they stay up late. Some of the team are going out to day centres to get people to do the survey.
Please leave me a message with your E-mail if you want to do the survey, so that I can send to you.

you can find out more about Heavy Load on their website: http://www.myspace.com/heavyloaduk

Health buddy training

I helped Manjeet, Danny and Rob to run the health buddy training on how to help people to stop smoking, I helped to set up the activities’ I was Danny’s health buddy and I was supporting him to give up smoking, I needed to try and convince him to come to the NHS and see the stop smoking team. It was only a role play as Danny does not smoke. The day was really good and I found that the presentation was interesting, at the end we all got a Goody bag, with lots of information.
I enjoyed the day.

Zoë

blogging at curriers

Me, Denise and Rob went to Curriers Enterprise to talk to a group about how to blog. first of all we told them what blogging was and it can be fun, some of them did managed to leave a massage on the our blog. It was good as some of them had not done blogging before they all had a really good time doing it, and we are going again next week, so i will let you know how we get on, that is all for now. here are some of the curriers group doing some blogging.

from Zoe

Being an advocate

Grapevine runs an advocacy group called Citywide, a group for people with learning disabilities. I had been a member of citywide before I started working for Grapevine. Since I started work I sometimes help out. There was a 2 day training event at citywide and I went to do the training. It was great, I really got into that meeting, the meeting was about choice and control. This means that people with learning disabilities have the right to choose where to live or even have their own money. Control is where people with learning disabilities have their own money taken off them by their carers or parents. Or when the carers and parents are concerned that people with learning disabilities can’t live or even run a house and that is where they are wrong.

The new team

The new team have been together for 7 weeks now and are really getting on well with each other. Last week Zoe ran the group training with Rob's help, she did really well. Next week Lynne will have her turn. We might even get Rob doing it!
Tomorrow we have some visitors from "We share stuff" they are going to show us how to get the best from the internet.

Lynne at the BEEB

I was working at the BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Radio Station for 10 days which was my work placement, I really enjoyed it. On the first week I was working on the CSV action desk which was a busy week, I did things like answering answering and making telephone calls photocopying and stapling important papers together also I went to visit a project. The second week I was working with the local radio presenter who is called Bob Brolly and his producer Sarah that was entertaining and he came up with a nickname for me, through the week I got to meet a few celebrities including Blake who are a operatic group. I will tell you a bit more later on.

Photographer Peter

I have a placement at Coventry University, I work with the Photographer Graham some Fridays, when he has got work for me. I have taken photographs of buildings in Gosford St. the flight simulator, people in the gym and food. I got to eat the food after we had finished. I went to the Focus on Imaging exhibition in Birmingham, it was good and I learnt about different things, what to buy and how people use pictures in different ways, framing and taking photos of models.
I am going to judge our photography competition with Graham and some of my work will be shown as well. I will tell you more later!!