ACTIVITY REPORT
JULY - OCTOBER 2016
Introduction
This report sets out activity for the fourth and final quarter of the Project’s final year.
July through to end of August continued the Year 3 Project theme:‘History of Tourism’.After that we have been lucky enough to enter a period of extension (until end November) so as to collate our material and to develop our Heritage Archive and webpages for dissemination to a wider public.
Having been a core dynamo in the Project, Abbie Thorne left us during July for a new position and Jackie Kiberd was employed to continue cataloguing the hundreds of photos donated to the Project’s Heritage Archive. We have also enlisted the additional support of Lucy McQuillan specifically to upload as many images of these images as possible to Flickr.
For consistency, this reportfollows the same format as within the Action Plan submitted in the original bid for funding. There are additional elements at the end of the table which pick up previously uncompleted activity, where activities are naturally continuing from year to year and where we wanted to report other outputs not included in the original Action Plan.
Please refer to the Project spreadsheets which document the figures used within the table below. The table sets out an ongoing tally of outputs for the entire Project (column 4), quantifying activity since August 2013 (the Project start). Targets for Year 3 appear in column 2, and then the overall tally of activity for Year 3 appears in column 3. For a full written description of activity for each previous quarter of the Project please refer to the details set out in previous reports.
A vast array of the interpretative outputs from the Project are publicly available within the National Park Centre in Lynmouth as well as other locations around Exmoor, not to mention the feast of film, photos and material accessible on YouTube, Flickr, the Project webpage and Exmoor National Park website as well as via the App ‘Discover Exmoor’. The Project Facebook page has been very active and all events and activities were regularly tweeted, with weekly posts such as #FlashbackFriday tying in with our current interpretative themes. Please refer to those outputs as well as this report to gain a full picture of the Project’s activity.
Activity / Annual Target / Tally –Year 3 / Tally – whole Project / Status and Activity Since Last Report
Review of year 2 activities
in consultation with the project advisory group and volunteers / 1 / 1 / 2 / completed
Call forVolunteers
Advertise & recruit / Maintain 20+ volunteers to deliver project activities. 8 x 16-25 year olds / 5 new vols signed up / 72 vols signed up
21 under 25s
27 active vols / 3.5 volunteer days were contributed to the Project July - August:
- 3 days by Skilled Volunteers
- Half a day by a Professional
Regular heritage talk, walk, tour programme with local societies around the theme of Exmoor’s Inspiring Landscapes (woodlands) / 24 walks, talks, tours, trails / 40 walks and talks
549 people attended / 106
2214
people attended / 18 walks and talks were organised this quarter, enjoyed by 131 people.
5 talks were organised during this quarter:
Evening talk by the Exmoor Pony Society
Conversations about creativity by Sharon Plant
Evening talk about the Lynmouth Pavilion Project
Presentation to Exmoor National Park Members and Staff about the work of the Lynmouth Pavilion Project
Pottery talk and demonstration by local potter
3 guided walks took place:
- 1 x Discover Porlock guided walk
- 1 x Lynmouth guided walk
- 1 x Discover Dunster guided walk
Training for volunteers / 15 days of expert time for training. 4 sessions per year / 10 training events
42 total attendance / 25 vol training events
140 total attendance / There were no training days for volunteers this final quarter
Launch Heritage theme memory challenge / One theme every two months, 10 new responses on average / 8 themes
103
responses / 13 themes
378
responses / During this quarter the ‘Your Exmoor’ section launched the themes of:
- Holidays Past, encouraging visitors to share their stories from previous holidays to Exmoor (5 new responses)
NB Year one figures are not included in the whole project tally.
Delivery of heritage challenges with youth groups / 1 / 3 / completed
Temporary exhibition – e.g. Louisa Lifeboat / 2000 viewings / 1
100 viewings / 2
3000 viewings / completed
Temporary exhibition with West Exmoor Federation (of Year 1 work) / 1 exhibition
130 school children taking part in exhibition and 1000 visits / 3 small exhibitions
Family Fun day with West Exmoor Federation / 1 day (not annual)
300 people / 2 events
175 people attending / Completed
Recruitment and training of year 3 volunteer heritage placements / 2 x6 week placements / 2 Heritage Placements
1 Work Experience Student / 3Heritage Placements
9 work experience placements / No further work this quarter
Temporary exhibitions – Year 2 / 2
30 people taking part in creating exhibitions and 2000 visits / 23 Exhibitions
28430 people viewing / 65
Exhibitions
65480 people viewing / 4 exhibitions have been displayed during this quarter. An estimated 5000 people viewed them:
- Aspects of Creativity by Sharon Plant
- Postcards, Paddlesteamers and Holidays Past
- Dunster Poetry Box Poems
- Your Exmoor Display of Holidays Past
-Cliff railway
-Lady Ada
-Wildwood/working woods
-Knight family
-Hope Bourne
-Welsh links
-Tales of Exmoor Coast
-Exmoor Coastal Traverse
Testing of the mobile App / 100 people to trial the app / 100>1000 downloads / Launched and live. Completed
Your Exmoor heritage activity day workshops / 14 workshops,
10 people average each / 38 events
818 people attended
22 on average per event / 82events
2023people attended
25on average per event
5000 poetry responses (from poetry box project alone in 123 notebooks plus other scraps of paper!) / There were 15events in this category this quarter:
- 3 x Exmoor Arts jewellery workshop
- Patchwork wreath making workshop
- 2 x Watercolour workshop
- 4 x Cliff Railway Talk & Tour
- Quilling workshop
- Your Exmoor event Holidays Past
- 2 x Family Craft Workshops inspired by Exmoor heritage and wildlife (apple printed gift bags and recycled flying fish)
- Stained Glass workshop
The Poetry Boxes were out again for their third and final year between June and the end of August – this time around Dunster Medieval village and surrounding walks. Wereceived happy comments via social media by surprised and delighted visitors stumbling across them. They were collected at the end of August for an exhibition in September and a hardback book containing favourite poems from all three locations is due back from the printers in mid-November.
Family learning days / 8 family days / 7 events
2050 people attending / 38 events
3884 people attending / The Project contributed to:
- Tarr Steps Family Fun Day (200 people engaged)
- The Lynmouth Family Wildlife Day (150 people)
- Bogtastic (250 people engaged) and
- The very successful Big Adventure Day at North Hill, at which around 350 people engaged directly with activities provided through the Project.
Taster sessions for new audiences / 8 per year (more on request)
40 people visiting
12 pieces of content / 4 sessions
127 people / 24 sessions
694 people attending / The Project supported the Big Family Campout this quarter, running a riddle workshop and story telling session for the 45 people attending.
The Exmoor Centre have confirmed that 4 sessions are being offered to special need and vulnerable groups from outside the area to come and experience Exmoor.
Visitor days / 12 visitor activity days ;
Advertised by 20 local businesses / 31 events
2987 people attended
17 businesses involved / 74events
3586 people attended
35 businesses involved / 2 events were organised this quarter linked to 1 local businesses/organisations, to which 1500people came:
- 1 x Glorious Glass stained glass workshop
- Poetry Boxes in Dunster
Deliver Local Interpreter
sessions / 4 sessions per year to develop 20 local heritage champions, tour guides and walk leaders. / 11 new local heritage interpreters to be trained
6 Training Sessions / 17 Local Heritage Interpreters trained, now leading guided walks
11 specific sessions training sessions (9 Walk Leader, 1 Heritage Interpretation, 1 shoreline-guide) / No new activity this quarter – this element has been picked up by the Get Involved Project run within Exmoor National Park and so walks will be expanded in the future.
Delivery of rolling programme of heritage workshops for West Exmoor Federation / Fortnightly Exmoor heritage sessions
Primary school children (approx 130) to attend at least one session over the year. / 5 schools
750 children
2 field trips / 1 Viking/Anglo Saxon costume and battle day, attended by 53 children
1 amazing in-situ re-enactment of Hubba the Dane attacking Countisbury Hill, fully costumed and scripted
1304 school children engaged in total since project start
2 mini-films
1 slideshow
3 temporary exhibitions / No more activity
Heritage Open Day Events (1 per year; need to catch-up on undelivered Year 1 event) / 500 people attending over the weekend; / 1
42 people / 2 / No additional activity
Heritage AV production with College students / 1 audio-visual production. / 14 / 32 short films / This quarter we have received finals of:
- Exmoor Holidays Remembered: 4 film pieces produced during a filming workshop led by Somerset Film and involving the special needs students of the Foxes Academy in Minehead. The students developed questions surrounding tourism on Exmoor which they then asked to Project volunteers. They then went out and about to film their local area for use with the films. These form an additional component to the Tourism Educational Resource.
- Porlock Community Orchard expressed interest in their orchard being documented through the year and the final filmswere shared on social media and online this quarter. It includes 4 lovely films detailing Spring, Summer, Apple Day and Wassailing.
- Exmoor’s oldest tree, The General, was filmed through the whole year, showing ‘A Year in the Life of the General’, including drone footage and a crane to reach the uppermost branches. Filmed with kind permission of the NT.
- Exmoor Farming Year: this delightful piece was filmed over a year using Project equipment and edited in-house. Filmed and produced by a well-known local hill-farming family, the Eveleighs, it shows the realities of sheep and cattle farming, as well as lovely film of their moorland herd of Exmoor ponies.
- 3D Old Lynmouth “Time Machine” – to accompany the Lyn Educational Resource, this compliments the 3D film of the Lynmouth Flood but shows instead how Lynmouth used to look pre-flood.
- Exmoor’s Dark Sky: working with author and local expert Seb Jay to reveal the inspiring landscape of Exmoor’s extraordinary sky at night.
- CareMoor: utilising footage already taken as part of the Project, this series of films will aim to show different sides of how people interact with Exmoor.
North Devon Schools and College Challenge (landscape photography competition.) / 250 entries ; a successful dynamic poster / 5 competition
65 entries / 9 competitions
349 entries / All completed
Community events for Exmoor residents / 3 each year ; 20 people attending on average per event; / 4 event
137 people attended / 8 events
326 people attended / No events delivered this quarter
Deliver 8 Education days / schools across wider Exmoor / 1 school day at Exmoor Woodland Festival, 3 schools
5 schools (soundscape workshops), approx. 20 children per school
2 x 33 students at Foxes Academy
4 school riddle workshops
Total of 910 school children / 2 online resources now launched
42 education sessions
1464school children
27 schools involved / During this quarter 4 Riddle workshops linked to the Exmoor Icon Campaign were completed, involving 160 school children. A separate report of these is attached, detailing the riddles from each school.
The Project has been developing an excitinginteractive online learning resource about tourism on Exmoor and this is now complete and available online.
Deliver 2Educator days/ mini-conference / 2 days in year 2
30 educators overall / 100 educators / 6 educator events / Complete
Deliver local business information days / 2
10 local businesses attending / 4 events
36 people / 12 business information days
261 people attended (average of 22 people per event) / Complete
Mystery heritage trail (geocache) – from year 1 / 1 / 8
40 trails completed / 10.5 / The Mosaic Young Champions have a dedicated volunteer to regularly check and manage the 7 geocaches, updating them as necessary into the future.
Iconic heritage campaign -from year 1 / Target 1000 votes ; 10 distinct heritage items selected;
Exhibited July 2014 / 0 / As reported above, Chris Jelley visited local schools to develop their riddle ideas based around icons of Exmoor. Hopefully he will build on these to continue the ideas developed during the Project to run a large Icon Campaign in the future.
Additional Outputs
Not included within the Action Plan above are additional outputs which are recorded in the Outputs spreadsheet, namely:
Activity / Annual Target / Tally – Year 2 / Tally Year 3 / Tally Whole Project / StatusAudio-visual productions / 3 overall / 30 / 23 / 68 / 13 this quarter (listed above - including 2 series of 4 short films)
Digital ‘stories’ – responses to Exmoor as part of the Your Exmoor Project (young person’s, children’s, family and visitor content) / 100 / 124 / The ‘Holidays Past’ project has come to an end, with 12 special Holidays Past packs returned to us with lots of lovely memories of holidays from times gone by and photos of lifetimes’ holidaying on Exmoor. A four page spread appeared in the Exmoor magazine on this topic in August. These are being developed as flip books to launch online to reach a maximum audience.
During this quarter all of the Project’s oral history recordings have been properly catalogued and archived. A sound recording artist has worked with them to develop 6 finished audio cuts against the themes of: Farming; Transport; Local Businesses; Weather; Ponies; and Food to share publicly within the National Park Centre and online.We’re really pleased with the finished pieces.
Outreach / No specific target / This quarter we have worked specifically with:
- Lyn Valley Society (to arrange the conservation work of the WW1 Role of Honour linked to the WW1 exhibition)
- Storywalks (in relation to publicising the Poetry Box Project and book)
- All those attending the Grand Celebration Event in August
- Exmoor Centre (to arrange field trips for vulnerable and special needs groups)
- The Exmoor Society (who have agreed to receive our ‘hard copy’ archive materials into their new temperature-controlled archive room)
- Exmoor Pony Centre (evening talk)
Launch and Celebration events / No specific target / 0
0 / 7
331 / 9 events
446 people / On 11th August we held our Grand Celebration Event, to close the Project on its original end of Project date of 12th August. Around 60 people came and enjoyed presentations from ENPA Chair Councillor Andrea Davis, ENPA CEO Nigel Stone, an HLF Committee Member and Project staff. After lunch we were treated to quite moving pop-up presentations from Martyn Babb (singing the Exmoor Hunting Song), Kyle Chivers from Firethought, Chris Jelley from Storywalks, Saffron Summerfield as a volunteer Oral History recorder, the Whitfields about their experiences of volunteering, and Ruth Hyett about the Heritage Walk leaders programme. We were then able to join Dave Wilde and Julian Gurney on one of the more established heritage walks – Lynmouth Flood. Arriving back at the Pavilion we then sat and heard about the extraordinary WW1 exhibition from Dave Wilde, and visitors then had a tour of the Pavilion to see some of the resources developed through the Project: iPad stories, audio recordings, films, tracker packs, nature craft loan kits, publications and exhibitions. It was a wonderful gathering of many different strands of the Project’s work and demonstrated the good feel amongst the local community towards the outcomes of the Project.
Children involved/represented/engaged through Project activities / No specific target / 2836 / 3777 / 8912 / 995this quarter
Total members of the public involved/engaged through Project activities / No specific target / 31976 / 35786 / 82495 / 7973 this quarter
Summary
Highlights from this final quarter include:
- The Big Celebration Event! Really very moving to see so many different elements of the Project come together in one room, and lovely to see HLF staff there to help celebrate the Project’s huge success!
- Presentations to Members of the National Park and staff, and the public through the Evening Talk.
- Seeing the archive of donated images come together into a catalogue and be launched on Flickr to share
- Hearing 6 wonderful audio shorts taken from our Oral Histories – taking us right back to the start of the Project and also to a gentleman who has since passed away.
- Receiving the wonderful memories of previous visits through the Holidays Past project and seeing just how much Exmoor is loved!
- Harvesting the Poetry Boxes from Dunster and seeing some of the touching words shared by visitors and locals over the summer.
- Preparing the final print of the Poetry Box Book, due shortly from the printers.
- Seeing the Project Webpages taking shape…
It’s been an extraordinary and amazing Project, involving the support of so many people and organisations. As much as possible the resources and outputs from the Project will be made available online and through the Exmoor National Park Centres for as many people as possible to share into the future.
Thank you HLF and ENPA.
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