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Ark Youth and Community Project

Case-study showing the impact of community archives

Spectacle Theatre production 'The Clock' told the story of World War II evacuees
Tea Dance to launch 'Home Front Recalled' DVD, in collaboration with Llwynypia Communities First team and Tonypandy Community College
Home Front veterans shared their experiences with pupils at Porth County Community School and Tonypandy Community College

Below you can download a detailed case-study of this community archive. The case-study describes the origins, activities and achievements of the archive, and assesses its impact on the local community.

The first two sections of the case-study are reproduced below.

Project summary

The two projects – Home Front Recall and Our Mining Heritage – were both designed to create a historical record of life in the Rhondda Valleys in the twentieth century through an inter-generational project.

Breaking down the barriers between younger and older people by increasing young people’s awareness of what the older generations in the Rhondda had gone through during the war years and the final decades of the mining industry was a key objective. Producing a valuable educational and historical resource for future generations was another. Both projects can be seen to have achieved their objectives, and also to have had a number of other highly beneficial outcomes.

A range of partners from the voluntary, educational and heritage sectors were involved. The projects were led by The Ark Youth and Community Project, a charity based in Tonypandy which works towards the social and economic regeneration of the local community

and the wider area.

The Home Front project cost £7,500, the Mining project £12,000. Most of the funding was provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

For further background, download the case-study or see the directory entry for Ark Community and Youth project.

What does this project exemplify?

An inter-generational approach in which secondary school pupils capture the experiences of elderly local people.

Objectives explicitly seeking to strengthen community bonds and to break down the barriers between different groups of people in a community that experiences deprivation and disadvantage.

Value added. A further project grew out of the Home Front project.This new project increases the opportunities for social and physical activity available to local older people, and the projects have had a more extensive range of positive outcomes than was originally

envisaged.

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