Community TV Trust

Community TV Trust [CTVT] specialises in local media, training people of all ages and abilities, facilitating vision and production. It also produces podcasts and documentaries. The latest output is PECKHAM PODCAST, based in south London: 'Big Ideas, Local Traction'. CTVT also campaigns and through its founder, Chris Haydon, has given talks and papers at conferences, seminars and educational events. Local Media’s real power lies beyond the mainstream because it links media to life as and where it is lived. CTVT has no core funding and welcomes donations, volunteers and corporate enquiries regarding project sponsorship. Its initial principle project, “Southwark.TV” [www.southwark.tv] gave rise to CTVT’s definition of local media, dubbed The Southwark Template: WEB-EVENT-TV came directly from managing the borough-wide “Southwark.TV”. Website or WEB is the horizontal delivery mechanism; TV is something people may aspire to produce, which is fine, but can only be undertaken with a genuine team of committed participants and at least one person with actual broadcast experience and expertise; EVENT is the crucial element because it brings people together and sparks real relationships across community and often across age and ethnicity and culture too.