“The REELmcr/Salford project has developed a highly innovative method of involving young people and adults in regeneration activity. Films have been created which draw upon input directly from the community and use the experience of participants to help other people to improve their lives. Community involvement was central to the filmmaking process with the estate providing a vast pool of untapped talent, which has so far gone unnoticed. The project offered an opportunity for previously disaffected young people and parents such as non-working mothers to engage in a legitimate purposeful activity and produce a high quality end product.

The REELmcr team have also worked to build the confidence of the participants, to establish a strong and compassionate love for their community and to create an awareness of positive and negative actions on the community as a whole.”

Professor Peter Roberts – Chair of The Academy for Sustainable Communities, Vice Chair of The British Urban Regeneration Association.(Quote taken from The RENEW Exemplar Programme, February 2005)

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