Queens Park Lives
Queens' Park Lives (QPL) was a community project dedicated to recording and celebrating the lives of people in Queen's Park, a multicultural area of Bedford. The project undertaken at the All Saints' Church aimed to celebrate the diversity of the area and assist community cohesion. Resulting in raising the profile of the area amongst a wider audience through dissemination of the outcomes.
Pam Greenaway receiving her award for recognition of the success of the project.
Members of the local community attended a series of talks and discussion groups recording their lives as the Queen's Park people. Producing a magazine celebrating the neighbourhood and its people, helping to learn more about its neighbours. Local community members worked in conjunction with Barnfield College to edit, word process and use digital photography to produce the magazine. The initial selection of the topic helped the development of the area engage the interest of the local community. Two magazines were produced in 2005 and one this Summer 2006.
Funding provided for a learning resource centre to be built with the church which has now officially opened and the facilities are available for use by all groups linked to the church.
Project Manager: Pam Greenaway
Project Contact: The Reverend Jay McLeod
email: macasher@dial.pipex.com
