Kensington Infant School
Year 2
We look at the global classroom, forty-nine children in one-year group from twenty different countries. The world has become a smaller place and each child has the opportunity to learn about different cultures both in the classroom and in the playground.

Broadgreen High School
Pedro and Faith
Two young people who have arrived in Liverpool from Angola and Kenya. We explore their stories and their feelings about arriving in a city they now call ‘home’.

St. Anne’s Stanley Church of England Primary School
John Arne Riise
Sacrifice and dedication has seen Jon Arne Riise achieve his dream of playing for Liverpool. The modern professional footballer may clock up many air miles during his career. An ‘animated’ John Arne Riise tells us his tale.

Broadgreen Primary School
Nick and Linman
Coming to Liverpool from Hong Kong and China, from different generations, arriving at different times, Nick and Linman share their experiences.

Kensington Junior School
1847
The Irish famine saw thousands of men, women and children arrive in Liverpool. For many it was a short stay as they travelled to the ‘new world’. Their stories are not forgotten; their voices can still be heard.

This film will be screened in the Maritime Museum throughout the summer until September.

This film will be part of an exhibition to be launched in Stavanger in 2008. As part of the ‘Youth and Migration’ project young people from all over Europe will gather in Norway to explore their diverse cultures.
The ‘Youth and Migration’ international project is supported by National Museums Liverpool and Liverpool Culture Company in collaboration with the ‘Norwegian Emigration Center’ in Stavanger.

‘In Focus’ has been supported by the Government’s new Transformation Fund for informal adult learning.

For more information about the Transformation Fund visit http://www.transformationfund.org.uk/

The young people have completed a screenplay and are in the process of rehearsing and increasing their technical film making knowledge ahead of filming.

Do you want the opportunity to train in all aspects of film making from pre production skills such as screen writing and storyboarding through to production skills like camera operation and sound recording to post production skills such as editing?

Do you want to work with a professional film maker?

Do you want to make a film?

Toxteth TV will introduce children and young people to film making providing them not only with training but also most importantly allowing them to express themselves and have fun.

The summer school will take place between Tue 5th Aug to Tue 12th Aug (not incl Sat and Sun), working with a film maker and a youth worker and the best part is that it’s FREE. Toxteth TV believes in helping the future filmmakers of Liverpool get the best possible start.

If interested please email team@toxteth.tv or call 0151-709-6014.

This workshop was part of a series of ‘free to attend’ information and networking sessions intended to enhance employment potential that are being held across the region in the premises of independent media and digital companies.

The Northern Advantage is no ordinary training scheme but, underpinned with access to professional mentors, it will offer some of the best freelance media practitioners in the Northwest a collaborative and business enhanced approach to their personal development and working experience.

This activity is funded by the Skillset TV Freelance Fund and the Digital and Media Skills Programme, delivered by Northwest Vision and Media in partnership with Skillset, and supported by the North West Development Agency.

In the last two years we have installed two living roofs on two of the four buildings that we own and manage. The first one was installed on the Toxteth TV studio roof in April 07 and is a Green Roof. It has at least four different types of Sedums (drought resistant plants) and sits on recycled crushed brick and recycled foam. Not only does it benefit local biodiversity, it also benefits the building in that it prolongs the life of the roof by up to twenty years and provides insulation during the winter. Throughout the summer it provides an ambient temperature lessening the carbon footprint of the building. Furthermore it utilises rain water so there is far less water run off from the roof and less work for the drains to do.

We’ve installed a Brown Roof at John Archer Hall which is also a “living roof” but different to a green roof in that most of the plants and insect life are left to their own devices to colonise the roof with little input from ourselves only to add some wildflower seeds and a very small number of natural aquatic plants.

The living roof at John Archer Hall has full disabled access and will be used by other agencies such as Natural England, Mersey Forests and the North Merseyside Biodiversity Action Agency to educate and promote living roofs in the North West.

The Project received £24,942 funding from SITA Trust, through the Landfill Communities Fund. SITA Trust distributes funding through the Landfill Communities Fund.Funding is available for community and environmental improvement projects within ten miles of an active SITA UK landfill site. Since 1997 the Trust has allocated over £54m to hundreds of projects across the UK.
For further information on funding, please call the Trust on (01454) 262 910
or visit www.sitatrust.org.uk

Tel: 0151 7096014
Fax: 0151 7096091
Email: team@toxteth.tv

What is Toxteth TV?
We provide a Media production resource where young people aged 14- 18 years can train alongside Professional Production Companies in a fully accessible facility in Windsor Street. The building houses a managed workspace in one half and the other is dedicated space for the provision of video production training and includes a full size and professionally equipped studio space.

Who is it for?
The training is aimed at young people who are at risk of disengagement from education and caters for school children aged 14-16 years and young people aged 16- 18. The learning is delivered through exciting hands on video projects which aim to reengage young people into learning as well as providing an introduction to the skills needed to create short video programmes.

What will they be doing?
The project offers 14 -16 year olds one day a week short courses where they will be making either a pop promo, a soap type drama or a documentary video. They will work as a team to design, plan, shoot and edit short videos using the extensive resources at Toxteth TV. The courses will last approximately 11 weeks each and any learner that completes will have a level 1 qualification validated by Liverpool Community College.

For 16-18 year olds there is a full time course that offers the same project based experience along with the opportunity to achieve a level 2 NCFE Video Production qualification. We also offer daylong tasters for both age groups.

The emphasis is on becoming involved in an enjoyable and stimulating production experience which will open up pathways and possibilities for further learning either within video production or any other area of learning offered within the city.

Toxteth TV is a modern television studio and broadcast facility situated in the heart of Liverpool. Equipped to the highest professional standards, Toxteth TV is the ideal space for virtually any TV, video or film production. Our aim is to offer a professional yet friendly atmosphere to encourage our clients to return again and again.

You will find our rates surprisingly competitive and we welcome all enquiries.

STUDIO FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Toxteth TV’s production facilities have been purpose built to provide affordable studio space that is technically excellent. As well as being fully kitted out with broadcast quality apparatus our soundproof studio offers:

• 1,690 square ft [157 square metres] studio floor
• Full broadcast standard lighting grid & floor lights
• 3 x Sony CA-D50 floor cameras, patched to video control
• Black, white and green chroma cyclorama
• Drive-in door access to studio, with load room
• Experienced in-house Technical Studio Manager

The Video Control Gallery is fully equipped, and includes:

• Beta SP, Hi-8, and VHS recoding formats
• Snell & Wilcox Key option Digital 16:9 vision mixing desk
• Autocue and lighting desk
• Integrated graphics workstation
• 24-track pro audio mixing desk
• Talk back facilities to studio floor

CONVENIENTLY SITUATED WITH SECURE PARKING
A cost effective facility in an award winning building, Toxteth TV offers:

• A light, relaxing reception area
• Green room facilities
• On-site coffee bar
• Proximity to major roads, mainline rail and airport
• Secure, gated parking with CCTV
• Night Security available on request

The facilities are also equipped with production office, make-up and wardrobe room, set store, tape store and equipment store/load room.

Using our production facilities at Toxteth TV will directly impact the social and economic regeneration of one of Liverpool’s most deprived areas – so please come on down and see what we have to offer.