Our partners, The Military
Keep Museum, Dorset County Museum, The Bovington Tank Museum, The Dorset
History Centre and The Salisbury Diocese (logos on the top right) have pledged to help us research stories & information to put in our history treasure boxes.
We will learn research methods
to explore and interpret historical clues in the landscape, particularly
archaeology and buildings on route. They will help us use their archives and access other ones. We will learn how they have told history stories in their museums and they will advise us on how to use the oral history family memories of the First World War that we are going to collect in Care homes.
As a group of young people, some with additional needs, we will advise them on how to use Geo-caching to promote their museums and give our views on their new projects.
They are really excited about our project and have offered all sorts of extra help like coming on the walks with us and linking us up to the TA to help us get ready for camping out under the stars when we walk the whole route.
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| Our Dorset
Young Remembers planning group is really popular. We all work together
with a huge range of abilities with the support of a project worker and
two adult volunteers. |
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| We have new
members joining all the time. We have met twice a week since October
with the main group attracting ten people every session. We will have
finished our plan in January. We will make sure our new project includes
as many new young people in Dorset as we can. In the centre of the
photo is a representative from Salisbury Diocese who has put together
her own modern pilgrimage trail. |
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| Meeting with
the Learning Officer from the Bovington Tank Museum. On the right is
Jonathan, our volunteer graphic designer and next to him is Issy, who
walked the Ten Tors to raise money to buy a Geocache device for the
group and other youth clubs to borrow. |
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| Amy and Alex
mind-mapped groups of young people, some with additional needs who may
benefit from participating in the project. Amy successfully raised bus
fare and refreshment money from Dorset County Council to keep us going.
Dorset Youth Association funded our project worker, Lorna Johnson for a
short time to help us research our new project. |
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| Our mind maps |
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| Our group with
some new members. We know from a previous project that just being in
our group and doing something good together has a significant impact on the lives of many young people. If
we get a green light we want to share our work with lots of groups of young
people. |
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| Our group
watching a Team Team episode which focused on a section of our route
because it is so rich in historical evidence in the landscape. They
were using phenomenology (a type of research method) that Pippa from the Dorset County Museum said
she will help us link into an archaeological project she is working
on. |
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| Rosie came up
with the idea of putting shells in the boxes and has many history books
focusing on Dorset local history, pilgrimage and way-marking. Way-marking is the posting of signs – or way-marks, along a route so that travelers can easily follow the route. |
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| Charlotte
helped the group plan what activities they would like to do. Charlotte
and Lee work as carers with older people and want to help other young
carers learn how to record oral history family memories linked to WW1. |
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| Edward the Geo-cache genius has progressed onto college from our group but wants to
help us as part of the Microsoft Hub team that has just formed at Routes
cafe. |
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| Jack and Jenny
are now at uni but want to come back to peer mentor new members of the
group in oral history recording as part of our research collecting First
World War family memories in Dorset. |
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| We want history to be fun and our group members to learn and develop through being part of our team. |
Meeting Our Funding Project Officer From HLF
On the 18th of December we had a visit from Philippa Davies from the Heritage Lottery Fund Young Routes Program. Over a nice hot cup of tea and healthy refreshments baked by some of the group, she gave us some good and useful advice on how to improve our project plan. She was very keen on hearing about the project from the perspective of the young volunteer and why we wanted to do it.
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| Philippa enjoyed talking to members of the group: "It was really lovely to meet them all and to hear their ideas and input into the project. It was very clear that they are all very enthusiastic and committed to the project." |
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| HLF Young Roots - we need your help to make our project a success! |
We will hide history treasure boxes along the route. In the cache boxes you will find written information and access digital information through QR codes about the best history stories we have discovered along our path. Also in the boxes there will be pilgrim shells for people to take on their journey and questions to inspire self- reflection en-route. People will be encouraged to respond to our questions in a journal or by texting our blog.
