Transform TV
Transform TV is an emerging community television channel on the web comprising a network of multi media organisations throughout SCOTLAND who share a “glocal” commitment to training young people, empowering local communities and linking local issues to global conversations.
2009 profiled work carried out in Possilpark with Hawthorn Housing Co-operative, with Bolt in the Provanmill area of Glasgow and with the Western Isles. With contributions from SCVO, the EIS and the Robertson Trust coupled with ESF funding through our long term partners in employability work with young peopl
e – ProjectScotland, 2009 was the year when we piloted the prototype of the Transform TV channel on the web with our first ever 6 month block of Transform TV training for young people who are not in education training or employment. By the end of their 6 months, the young people had contributed to the Sparr project, the SPARR website and learning resource and had made their first feature film – a Govan Ghost Story.
Video: Govan Ghost Story
The programme attracted attention from the Government with a Blake Stevenson profile for COSLA, a case study of best practice for Bolt in tackling anti social behaviour; for the Church of Scotland in terms of combating poverty and the BBC were sufficiently interested in our work to host the graduation ceremony in their headquarters at Pacific Quay. Qualifications were delivered through our partnership with North Glasgow College.
By the end of the year, we had returned to the BBC for a Transform TV Symposium attended by all partners and stakeholders which reviewed progress so far. Our patron, Iain Logie Baird ( grandson of the Scottish inventor of television, John Logie Baird) , gave his endorsement and we developed some plans for the future. We are delighted to be in partnership with the BBC and are sure that with their technical expertise and production values coupled with our grass roots reach into communities, we have the makings of historic community television on the web.
2009 completed on a high note with two prestigious awards for participants in the programme: a Volunteer of the Year award for Elizabeth Baillie and Mentor of the year award for Frank Miller of CRAN for his work on Transform TV We look forward to 2010 with the next cohort of young people who will form the backbone of the first stage of the Voyage of Dreams Project. Voyage of Dreams is Fablevsions 5 year plan to lead up to the Olympic Games in 2012 and the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Transform TV students will research the history and legacy of two important areas of Greater Govan: Rosshall Park in Pollok (designed by the same landscape artist who went on to design the grounds of Buckingham Palace) and Central Govan with its historic monuments, Viking hogback stones and mediaeval churchyard and burial ground.
Knowsley Development Trust in Liverpool are our newest UK partners in Transform TV. Impressed with our progress, they visited Fablevision during December prior to setting up their own TTV style project in Knowsley
