Heritage Fund UK have awarded a grant of £73,000 to World Media Initiatives CIC to create a heritage sports project for Milton Keynes.
The heritage sports project will make films about Milton Keynes’ sports heroes and heroines, past and present. They will feature people from across various sporting disciplines such as athletics and football, badminton and tennis, gymnastics and basketball and more. A total of ten films will be produced.
This project is created to bring history and achievement to young people to inspire this generation to aspire to achieve and be great. The project aims to show that if the people featured could make a difference, then so can other local young people. It is also created to produce new stories for this generation to access and learn about.
The project will make a conscious and deliberate effort to preserve legacy and heritage. It will give participants an opportunity to celebrate our sporting heroes and heroines of the past bringing them out of the shadows of the past as though they did not exist and re-present them to young people and the community. This project means more people can access this heritage enabling some to be the creators and others to consume it. This project will inspire the next generation of sporting heroes and heroines and the next generation of filmmakers and heritage specialists.
It also allows the participants and the community to create and protect the new legacy of current and future sports heroes and heroines.
This project will encourage more people to go into sports and be more active in developing and protecting their own physical wellbeing or look at heritage professions such as archivists, researchers, museum and exhibition professionals.
The value of meeting people who have succeeded in various fields is that their experience always provides people with a close-up perspective of how to survive difficulties and to know they can always succeed. At this time of social crises it will support their mental wellbeing.
The opportunity to be a part of this project means young people in particular, have an opportunity to stay off the streets and invest in themselves in ways which impact on future education and careers.
The project will be run by Film Academy Milton Keynes which is a product of World Media Initiatives CIC. Through the Film Academy participants will go through a 6-month filmmaking programme and receive a Level 5 accreditation qualification at the end of the project. The programme will be run part-time during the day or evenings and is a hybrid as it will run partly face to face and partly online.
The project is open to anyone over 16 years old and will start in June 2023.
To enquire please email info@famk.co.uk or visit www.famk.co.uk to register.
