The National Lottery Heritage Fund awarded Inspiring Audio a grant to work with museums to create in-school workshops, podcasts and video, and also provide those museums with media skills training.
We made contact with several museums including the National Coal Mining Museum for England, the Museum of English Rural Life, and the Black Country Living Museum who provided valuable resources and guidance.
School Workshops
Schools local to each of the museums were approached as well as other schools throughout the UK and over 300
We created an hour-long school workshop for children aged 9 to 13. Hosted by a member of Fun Kids staff and a presenter, we looked at why children worked and the kinds of jobs they performed. The pupils then wrote and recorded a radio advert for one of the jobs they were introduced to.
Museum Workshops
We led media training workshops at museums including the World Rugby Museum in Twickenham, Gunnersbury Museum, and Didcot Railway Centre, as well as the museums who were instrumental in creating the other aspects of this project.
Podcast and video
‘Really? Jobs From The Past’ is a series of sixteen short-form audio programmes. They were broadcast on the national children’s radio station, Fun Kids, and also made available in podcast and video form.
Presented by Fun Kids presenters Bex Lindsay and Dan Simpson, the programmes engage children and families and help them explore child labour in both historical and contemporary contexts. It does this by comparing children’s jobs from Victorian Britain against those still performed by children in the present day. Having an understanding of UK heritage and solutions to child labour that the UK offers allows children to analyse the complexities of the modern global economy and better discuss the ongoing exploitation of children in parts of the world.
To hear more of the series, click here.
To see the full set of videos, click here
To download the educational resources we created for this project, including mock job adverts, see the gallery below…
