Find Your Talent PUSH4Culture

The Government's Cultural Offer

Over the next five years, the Government is committed to developing a comprehensive cultural offer. This will ensure that all children and young people no matter where they live or what their background have the chance to participate in at least five hours of high quality culture a week in and out of school. For further information, please click here

To turn ambition into reality £25m has been set aside over the next three years to establish Find Your Talent, a programme of 10 local area pathfinders where a full range of partners will trial different ways of delivering a comprehensive offer.

PUSH4Culture is the name of the pathfinder for Urban South Hampshire and HWTMA have been involved as one of the delivery partners of the Phase 1 pilot projects.

Stage 2 Area Grant Programme (Jan 2010 - March 2010)

HWTMA are working in partnership with Chamerlayne College for the Arts on a project that will see young people from the college producing an exhibition of their own 3D photographs of Southampton and its maritime heritage.

Stage 1 Area Grant Programme (July 2009 - March 2010)

HWTMA are delighted to have been awarded a grant from FYT to work with a group of young people in partnership with Southampton Young Carers. HWTMA will be working with the young people to help them research and produce some short films and a postcard about martime Southampton, past and present.

Phase 1 Pilot Project (April 2009)

HWTMA worked in partnership with the Wessex Youth Offending Team offering a two-day programme for young people which involved a couple of try-dives, a visit to a local museum and some background about maritime archaeology.

Eight young people were involved with the project. The young people were asked for their views on the museum and how it might be altered to appeal more to them. Everybody enjoyed the diving and some showed particular aptitude for tasks like drawing under water.

Phase 2 (2009-2010)
Young Carers Discover Southampton

Southampton Young Carers between the ages of 8 and 18 had the opportunity to learn about Southampton's Maritime heritage during three days in October 2009. The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology set up a diverse and inspiring programme of activities that included a trip on Southampton Water onboard RV Callista looking at Southampton from the water, as an important maritime city. A guided walk took the young people around Southampton's historic city walls to study the water from the mainland. The young people involved got the change to express their experiences through photography and video and produce finished products in forms of short movies and postcards.

Phase 3 (2010)
HWTMA and chamberlayne college goes 3D

This project provided young people with the equipment and skills to plan, create, edit and run their own exhibition. They gained a greater understanding of  software and hardware used for 3D imagining and the principles behind 3D methods. The project also helped put the history of Southampton and its architecture into perspective for the young people while familiarising participants with the City's resources and assets by visiting libraries and art galleries that are likely to be unfamiliar to most of the project's participants. These visits, combined with the image editing session at Southampton University's National Oceanography Centre helped broaden horizons and highlight the fact that Southampton has much to offer young people in terms of cultural heritage and future opportunities for education. For further information and photographs from this project, please click here.

Phase 4 (2010)
HWTMA animation project

Gifted and Talented young people from  Chamberlayne College for the Arts in Southampton with the help from HWTMA staff and Creative Animation for Children UK produced a short animation about Henry the V’s ship Grace Dieu . This project enabled the young people to see how new technologies and innovative approaches can be used when exploring their own heritage. As such it is hoped that this project helped young people to engage with their heritage and explore new ways of accessing it and interpreting it for others. The animation is permanently available via the HWTMA website and YouTube and is on show in the maritime bus