The Fablevision Charity

Introduction

Fablevision is a charity dedicated to engagement and empowerment within communities. Over the 25 years of our existence, the company has supported dozens of existing community based organisations and has brought over twenty new organisations and networks into being (see Royston Road Project, Bolt FM and our full project archive listing).

Western IslesFablevision projects, research and training are delivered on behalf of the national cultural planning forum . Through partnership projects, we investigate, develop and deliver best practice processes for the engagement and empowerment of people. Evaluation of outcomes, and sharing of practice are vital components in the shaping of those processes. Fablevision links Royston Road Projectthese findings and projects to a larger community of practitioners and investigators nationally and internationally through the arts and communities association , ncpf, banlieues d’europe and QecERAN amongst others.

Our on going research projects (for example, Sparr) and learning projects (for example Transform T.V. local and the Transform Gold annual course in partnership with the University of Strathclyde) are live programmes which use the processes developed by linking them together and overlapping them so that participants become aware that they are engaged in an on-going, open ended exploration.

Studios testingThe need to record and evidence the impact of our “transformations” was answered by the realisation that the talent and experience of our team in the sphere of new media training and creativity could be deployed in capturing that evidence. From this recognition came the decision to set up a separate trading arm (Fablevision Studios Ltd.) as a wholly owned subsidiary offering new media services including web design, film making, graphics and 3D animation to the public, private and social enterprise sectors.