Eight older people and eight students from Churchill Community College, all volunteers with VODA, the Voluntary Organisations Development Agency in North Tyneside.
Eight older people and eight students from Churchill Community College, all volunteers with VODA, the Voluntary Organisations Development Agency in North Tyneside.
The group explored their own values and together decided on the four which they agreed are most important in our community. They then took part in a range of projects which culminated in creating animated films, supported by Digital Voice.
The work was inspired by artwork they had done for the project and the group worked in four teams to storyboard, create the animations, and write and record scripts.
They produced four short animations on cooperation, responsibility, justice and honesty. These can be seen below.
The group took part in a wonderful end-of-project screening event organised by themselves and VODA.at Howden Library. Members of the community and other stakeholders were invited to decide what they believed were the most important values for society to be successful.
The group worked marvellously together! Intergenerational projects are a fantastic way to bring together people who may not usually meet in this way to share opinions and ways of working for the betterment of communities as a whole.
We were commissioned by VODA to do this work and they provided great support throughout, including editing the animations.
Intergenerational Projects are very successful and enjoyable community cohesion initiatives.