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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 report follows 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.

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Activity Annual Target

Tally –

Year 3

Tally – whole Project

Status and Activity Since Last Report

Review of year 2 activitiesin consultation with the project advisory group and volunteers

1 1 2 completed

Call for Volunteers 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

Delivered by 6 individuals, 1 of whom was under 25 years of age

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 SocietyConversations about creativity by Sharon PlantEvening talk about the Lynmouth Pavilion ProjectPresentation to Exmoor National Park Members and Staff about the work of the Lynmouth Pavilion ProjectPottery talk and demonstration by local potter

3 guided walks took place:

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Year 3



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

103responses

13 themes

378responses

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)

During each theme we have held special celebration events to encourage people to share experiences around each theme (see Your Exmoor Heritage Activity Day Workshops below)

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

2

3000 viewings

completed

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viewings

Temporary exhibition with West Exmoor Federation (of Year 1 work)

1 exhibition130 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

3 Heritage Placements

9 work experience placements

No further work this quarter

Temporary exhibitions – Year 2

2 23 Exhibitions

65 4 exhibitions have been displayed during this quarter. An estimated 5000 people viewed them:

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30 people taking part in creating exhibitions and 2000 visits

28430 people viewing

Exhibitions

65480 people viewing

Aspects of Creativity by Sharon Plant Postcards, Paddlesteamers and Holidays Past Dunster Poetry Box Poems Your Exmoor Display of Holidays Past

The following iPad stories have been developed this quarter:

- 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,

38 events

818 people attended

82 events

2023 people

There were 15 events in this category this quarter:

3 x Exmoor Arts jewellery workshop

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10 people average each

22 on average per event

attended

25 on average per event

5000 poetry responses (from poetry box project alone in 123 notebooks plus other scraps of paper!)

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

131 people attended – 9 per event

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. We received 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


38 events


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

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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


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

74 events

3586 people attended

35 businesses involved

2 events were organised this quarter linked to 1 local businesses/organisations, to which 1500 people came:

1 x Glorious Glass stained glass workshop Poetry Boxes in Dunster

Deliver Local Interpreter sessions

4 sessions per year to develop 20 local

11 new local heritage interpreter

17 Local Heritage Interpreters trained, now leading guided

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.

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heritage champions, tour guides and walk leaders.

s to be trained

6 Training Sessions

walks

11 specific sessions training sessions (9 Walk Leader, 1 Heritage Interpretation, 1 shoreline-guide)

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

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

No more activity

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year. children engaged in total since project start

2 mini-films

1 slideshow

3 temporary exhibitions

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

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through the year and the final films were 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.

Still being finalised are:

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

250 entries ; a successful

5 competition

9 competitions

349 entries

All completed

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photography competition.)

dynamic poster

65 entries

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

2 online resources now launched

42 education sessions

1464 school 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 exciting interactive online learning resource about tourism on Exmoor and this is now complete and available online.

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Foxes Academy

4 school riddle workshops

Total of 910 school children

Deliver 2 Educator 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

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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.

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Additional Outputs

Not included within the Action Plan above are additional outputs which are recorded in the Outputs spreadsheet, namely:


Tally – Year 2

Tally Year 3

Tally Whole Project

Status

Audio-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)

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Tally – Year 2

Tally Year 3

Tally Whole Project

Status

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

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7331

9 events446 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.

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Tally – Year 2

Tally Year 3

Tally Whole Project

Status

Children involved/represented/engaged through Project activities

No specific target

2836 3777 8912 995 this 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…

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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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