Decision - Pavement Pounders CIC

Decision details

Pavement Pounders CIC

Decision Maker: Ward Member for Folkestone Central (1)

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Folkestone Under attack - Project management fees, equipment and travel

 

An oral history and video project centred on the map in Folkestone Museum showing where bombs, shells and V1rockets fell during WWII. The idea is to add live testimony to an otherwise rather dry exhibit.

 

The outcome will be a presentation made at the Folkestone museum and a multi-media archive containing both video and audio recordings, which will be gifted to the museum.

 

We have discussed this project with Jennifer Buchman, manager of the museum and she fully supports it. We shall seek out living witnesses and record their stories. We shall also make videos of the locations mentioned by the interviewees as they are now. This project follows on from our Big Lottery supported project: WWII Front line Kent Childhoods but unlike that it hones in on very specific aspects of Folkestone’s experience of that war.

 

Decision:

To provide funding of £100 to the above project.

 

 

Reason for decision:

 

We were incorporated in 2010 as a vehicle for our “Pride of Place” project. Our aim is to boost pride in Folkestone and its rich heritage By default as much as by design we work with the over 60’s, being no spring chickens ourselves we are more than happy with this.

 

Specific aims of this project

We will give meaning to the dots on the map of Folkestone’s war attacks and provide for the community a vivid record in the voices of those who lived through them. Our interviewees will be older residents, by asking them to take part in this project we are demonstrating that their knowledge and experience is valued by the community and that they have a contribution to make by helping us all to better understand our heritage. A community that knows where it came from can make better decisions on how its future can be shaped.

 

Publication date: 14/08/2019

Date of decision: 14/08/2019

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