Promoting the National Lottery

Our exhibition photographers were asked to help promote the National Lottery by being on the other side of the camera for once. Alan, Michael, Peter and Paul posed with a giant lottery ball in the new gallery at the Herbert in Coventry.So far the Coventry Telegraph has used the story. This photograph was taken by Michelle Tennison. (www.tennisons.co.uk)

Learning disability partnership board

I am a representative on a group called the Learning Disability Partnership Board. Other reps are the NHS, councillors, carers, parents etc, they talk about the help people with learning disabilities need and we have presentations from the visitors. I sometimes have to give feedback on how the media team are doing and what is coming up next for them. I do enjoy going to the meetings. This photo shows myself and another Grapevine worker named Dave McCann acting on stage. We did a comedy to show what a good partnership board looks like. This was something we did for the review of the partnership board. The review was to make things better for the partnership board.

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

Getting a job

Can you please help us? The government want to know what people with learning disabilities think about getting a job. We have have put some questions on our blog and would like you to answer them. If you have more to say about work then leave us a comment here. Thank you. Naomi will be taking your comments to BILD next week, who will send them to the government.

experiment posting a video clip

We thought it was about time we tried to post a short video clip of the media team. This was recorded in December when the team made their own TV show called Grapevine Today. This short clip shows Christine interviewing Alan about his photography book on Coventry.

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.

thanks to the team

I want to thank Zoe, Rob & Lynne for keeping the office running while I have been away. From what I hear they have all done a very good job. I hear that the training days have been fun and that Zoe has kept everyone in order.
I want to thank all the media team for coming each week all through the horrible weather. I thought of you all while I was in the warm resting my poor foot, drinking tea and listening to the radio. I even tried out daytime TV but it wasn't for me. I think I will leave the TV watching to the media team, you are all much better at it than me.
I will not be back at work full time for a few more weeks so Lynne, Zoe & Rob will just have to keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to watching the TV programme you made and hearing all your news.
Denise

Media team

Hey there Lynne here! Sorry I haven’t been blogging for a while but here I am now, here is my update on the media team and it’s going to be a short one this week. I have led 2 meetings by myself and with support, I led 1 that was called introducing the media that was week4 and in week8 I led the

meeting which was called Making a Newspaper and that was my observation and it was quite good.

Catch up

Hi Zoë here.!
I have been running the Media Team and it has been fun. I have really enjoyed it. But Denise has not been there because she is off with a broken foot hopefully she will be back soon. The grapevine Christmas party was really good and it was nice to see everyone. We had a great time. We are on week 13 already it has been good as Rob has been supporting me to do them, we have made a TV lifestyle program with the media team, interviews also Made our own news paper with them. We have quizzes everyone has a good time. It will be good when Denise get’s back as we have all miss her, it has been good experience for me I am very pleased with myself and rob should be really pleased with himself to.
That’s all for now
Zoë

What the media group has done so far.

First week we spoke about being in a group, second week was what we can already do, third week we spoke about being organised and having rights, we introduced the media in week4 we spoke about soaps and quizzes in week5, we spoke about the news in week 6, we used the internet in week 7, we made our own newspaper in week8, we done interviews and filming in week 9 and week10 was part 2 of the interviews and filming.