My Place project

Through funding from Community Foundation for Greater Manchester’s Trafford Small Grants we began a new project “My Place” led by Renee Lumley and Sarah Jones, a photographer and graphic artist.

Group members had the opportunity to take photos of themselves, each other, personal items, local streets, schools and other things of interest in Old Trafford that have influenced them and helped to define their heritage, culture and who they are becasue of where they live.

Day to day issues such as impact of crime & drugs on communites and the usual issues affecting Asian women were hotly debated while thinking about solutions.

The images were designed into a series of draft postcards by another artist, Monir Ali. From the drafts a series of 4 creative postcards were selected to be printed.  The My Place postcards  will be used to market and promote our website.  Download postcards [pdf 2.2Mb] Or click on the thumbnails below to see the postcard images.

My Place postcard	My Place - Music
My Place - Peace	My Place - Us

A huge celebration event  to mark the end of this project took place on Friday 15th May. However, we also  celebrated a short “Wonder Women” project and a project/exhibition that was undertaken by a small group of the young women as part of The Inspiring Leadership Development Programme.

Pulling Together members have been working on The OT Comic Strip that has been funded by John Grant Davies Trust. The group have been busy taking photographs on the newly acquired Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras to create a series of issue based comics.

We have been very successful in gaining funding from Trafford College’s Neighbourhood Learning Team to purchase photographic and video equipment which is being used with previous resoures to create the OT Comic Strip.

My Place Project