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Young Cheshire creatives win grant for Euro project

A Warrington-based partnership has won a €45,000 grant for a youth project to run jointly with the Cheshire town’s German ‘twin’.

The multi-media project will involve schools and other partners in Warrington and in its twin-town of Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, in making short films about local places of historical or cultural significance.

The partners involved in the project will include Accent, the Warrington and Halton Music Hub, with Culture Warrington, Priestley Sixth Form College, Warrington Collegiate and the Heath School Runcorn, supported by Warrington Borough Council.

The council’s executive board member for children and young people, Cllr Colin Froggatt, said today: “Accent and its partners have done really well to earn this funding, and the project will ultimately involve over a hundred young people in Warrington and Halton.

“The project will give opportunities for those young people to develop skills in research, in music, in film-making and IT. It will be good fun and it will help improve the bond between Warrington and Hilden and the people who live in our twin towns.”

Cllr Froggatt added: “The end product should be quite spectacular. The students will be creating a smartphone app which will allow people to access a series of short films using QR codes, and we will also have a film projected in three dimensions onto a large public building, accompanied by music composed by some of the students involved in the project.”

The project will run into the new year and will culminate with celebration events in Warrington and Hilden in April and May 2015 respectively.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Simon Malia .