Child Action North West Meeting

Today was the meeting at Blackburn Orphanage. I was really nervous about showing the Promo that I had made with Sammie and Lewis. When we got there we had a talk about the history of the orphanage and what Child Action North West have done to try and raise their profile.


James Dixon came to Blackburn from Scotland at the age of 23. He set up the ragged school in 1881 at the age of 26. Dixon was a very astute marketer. 

14 December 1886 - Founders day
Adolphus Curran was the first orphan. He has a brother names Arthur who is known as the forgotten brother.

The cellar has everything - catalogue of history - 2500 names - Children records 

Because of budget cuts they lost 1.4 million in government money. Some services had to be suspended and staffing had to be reduced.


The buried Treasure of James Dixon

Inside out - BBC

They didn't give us much information because they haven't compiled the briefs yet, but they did give us some information.
From the media side of things they are looking for

• A new message
• Talk about the charity as a whole thing
• 10 short films. 2 minutes max
• Talk to service users/volunteers/staff

They split the media group into two groups. Because I had made this promo I was in the Young Carers group and so were all the ex BTEC. The rest of the media group were in the other group but they all seemed to come in the room with us to talk to Karen who is the Manager of the Carers project in Blackburn with Darwen. I don't know whether the charity wants us to work like this or whether we choose. We should find out in the next meeting. 

Child Action North West: http://www.canw.org.uk/site/

YouTube Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/CANWCharity

After the meeting when I went home I looked on the internet for videos about Child Action Northwest and about carers.

Just one simple search garners hundreds of results.