Research

Research for a Corporate Video

The role of the GYBC (Great Yarmouth Borough Council) within this project is to assist ‘tenants who are unable to look after their own gardens'. So basically they help people who may not be physically or mentally able to continue with their gardens upkeep. In the councils agreement the tenant must make sure that their garden is up to certain standards such as:

• Making sure the grass is mown regularly.
• Making sure any hedges do not exceed 2 metres in height and don’t hang over any roads or pavements.
• Making sure the gardens borders are regularly maintained and free of weeds.

For a weekly charge the tenant can receive this help with their garden, the service provides people to ‘cut the grass and trim the hedges a number of times throughout the year’ although it does state that ‘no pruning or weeding’ is provided. In addition to this there is a waiting list that people would have to join before they get added to the scheme, these are possible reasons for why some tenants choose not to follow the scheme.

MESH is a Neighbourhood Programme set up in Gorleston-on-Sea who ‘aim to assist local people to become more personally resilient’, this group helps with setting up smaller community groups and events as their focus is to help people within the community out. They work alongside other organisations to make Gorleston-on-Sea a better place for those who need a little bit of assistance. They are also the organisation responsible for setting up the local ‘Cutting Hedge’ group.

Cutting Hedge is the product of this council ruling giving someone an eviction warning as their garden wasn’t up to standard and MESH trying to solve the issue, various members created the idea which was later funded from a range of sources. This meant they needed to recruit members to fulfil the plan that had been created, these recruited members would attend various workshops that taught them how to look after and maintain gardens for people. Not only does this provide the members with experience but it helps tenants who maybe cannot afford or who do not choose to partake in the council’s scheme. Cutting Hedge aim to further themselves in the future by possibly becoming a social enterprise or maybe even a business.



Voluntary Norfolk provides services that aim to work with communities to build resilience and capacity, support improved health outcomes for some of the most vulnerable in our communities and they also aim to enable better employment outcomes for young people and adults. They work with various groups that support social care, employment and also health care. Voluntary Norfolk work with some of the most disadvantaged residents that live in areas of low income, the worst areas in the county. They work to create solutions to large health and social care challenges, this is done by placing volunteers into community hospital settings and linking them with the people that are more disadvantaged. One other thing they strive to do is to provide employment opportunities and skill services that support long-term unemployed people as well as the disadvantaged young people.

East Norfolk Sixth Form College provided their help to the Cutting Hedge Project by creating a corporate video, ENSFC is beneficial as they have plenty of contacts and also support staff that inform students about these opportunities. They also have a course (Level 3 Creative Media Production – Film and Television) that has provided them with the resources to support Cutting Hedge and the MESH project with a professional corporate video that seeks to promote how much they help within our community. 

For the corporate video East Norfolk Sixth Form could provide a variety of personnel that could be spread out across the project as the course covers many different areas such as filming, editing, directing, audio and also planning, Students would be able to use equipment provided by the colleges AV department, this includes cameras, a variety of lenses, tripods and audio equipment that could be used during the filming process alongside Computers and Macs with the appropriate software to research and edit for the videos. As well as this there are many opportunities provided by the college such as work experience and volunteer opportunities which is assisted by staff such as Jane Palmer who has various different contacts to different charities and associations that may need a commission, such as MESH. 



References:

Website title: Great-yarmouth.gov.uk
URL: https://www.great-yarmouth.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=2302&p=0

Article title: How do we work with local communities? - Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Website title: Great-yarmouth.gov.uk
URL: https://www.great-yarmouth.gov.uk/article/2088/How-do-we-work-with-local-communities

Article title: Home | Voluntary Norfolk
Website title: Voluntary Norfolk
URL: https://www.voluntarynorfolk.org.uk/