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What's the Big Idea?
PEOPLE in Orford will soon be running their own television channel, as part of a major community-building project. Organisations across Warrington met at pyramid this week to launch The Big Idea: a project, which will give residents the skills to set up and maintain their own television channel transmitted via the Internet.
The next milestone in the project is a consultation process to ascertain what Orford residents themselves would like to happen in their community and how local businesses can become involved.
The channel will be provided by Danish company 'Superchannel', which has successfully launched 31 similar channels across the globe from studios as far apart as Austria, Denmark, England, Italy, Japan, Scotland and Thailand. The channel, which will be based at the newly refurbished Warrington Collegiate Institute, is scheduled to go live in October next year.
It will give Orford residents the opportunity to write, shoot and star in their own television programmes including an Orford-based soap opera, discussions of local issues, animation, environmental and history projects and dramas. Local people will be involved at every level of the channel's creation and programming and will receive a comprehensive package of training to equip them with invaluable transferable skills.
The Big Idea is a partnership project involving Pyramid, Arts Council England, Chester College, and Warrington Collegiate Institute.
Pyramid's Community Participation Officer, Clare Grundy, said:- "This is a
fantastic project for Orford and a unique opportunity for people in the area to build stronger, happier, healthier communities."
Why do businesses fail?
BANKRUPTCIES
in the UK are already running at the highest level for more than a decade. According to the Department of Trade and Industry, up to 12,000 business insolvencies are recorded every year. Only about 50% of small businesses are still trading 3 years after first being set up.
There are many reasons why this happens but there is only one conclusion and that is business failure.
Business failure is not only common with new start-ups but also with businesses that have been around for sometime, like MG Rover.
So why do businesses fail?
According to UK Business consultant Mark Baldwin:- "Most businesses fail through lack of planning and organisation.
Every new business start up comes about through someone's ingenuity and enthusiasm in their product. Unfortunately not enough business owners have the tools to profitably expand their business.
For this reason the Prosperity Test has been developed."
This is a new technology designed to locate areas in your business that are holding back your profits. It is a FREE business test that can be taken online at www.prosperitytest.com.
The result of the analysis shows the actual effectiveness of the various functions of any given company compared to their potential.
At the same time the results clearly show areas in the company, which should be strengthened, and what should be done to accomplish that.
The analysis also indicates those areas which are doing well and which should not be changed.
The results will furnish each business owner with an idea as to how their company is actually doing in comparison to the ideal, and what you could do to approach this level.
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FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL MOST GROUND SHAKING MOMENT IN HISTORY
THE moon landing has been voted 2nd by the North West to the fall of the Berlin Wall in a poll released today by the National Bingo Game Association to mark Britons’ top ground shaking moments of all time.
All of the moments voted for by the UK public were of ground shaking significance in the categories of innovation, sport and historical news and as such have made a significant impact on our everyday lives.
The North West’s Top Ten Ground Shaking moments are as follows:-
Berlin wall comes down in 1989 signifying the end of communism in Germany
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon in 1969
Surgeon’s conduct first heart transplant in 1967
Women win the right to vote in 1928
Thomas Edison invents the first incandescent light bulb in 1879
Bob Geldof kicks off the first Live Aid concert in 1985
Martin Luther King makes his famous “I have a dream”
speech at a rally in 1963
The end of the apartheid in South Africa in 1990
The first UK BBC TV broadcast
Prince William born in 1982
The release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990
Steve Redgrave wins 5th Olympic gold medal in 2000
Saddam Hussein being captured in 2004
Equal rights for women introduced meaning equal pay and status in 1975
The birth of the first test tube baby (Louise Brown) in 1978
The first UK ITV broadcast
England wins 1966 world cup
Johnny Wilkinson’s drop goal in 2003 world rugby cup
A quarter of votes in the North West defined the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 as the moment that has most shook their world.
20% of votes went to Neil Armstrong’s historic moon walk while the world’s first ever heart transplant came third with 9%.
For those in the North West, Live Aid made an impact bigger than in the UK as a whole, with it making number 6 in the list. They also showed a love for the royals, with the birth of Prince William coming in at number 7.
BBC Historian, Roger Tabor, is both surprised and delighted that Brits have mainly selected world events rather than momentous occasions that have taken place on their home turf.
He said:- “As a historian, I am intrigued to see that the overall top ten moments are all scientific breakthroughs or topics of momentous news mainly on rights or freedoms. Britons have fought long and hard for the rights and freedoms of the individual across the centuries, and I am heartened that these remain important to us, as seen with the choice of the collapse of Communism symbolised by the fall of the Berlin Wall, women gaining the right to vote, plus the end of Apartheid all in the top ten. Britain too has a history of inventiveness, but the survey shows we really value the significance of the achievement rather than just a narrow nationalistic view.”
Steve Baldwin, spokesperson for the National Bingo Game said:- “I’m extremely surprised that a nation renowned for its passion for sport failed to mention significant sporting achievements such as the 1966 World Cup win and Steve Redgrave’s 5th gold medal win at the 2000 Olympics.“
The survey, carried out by Taylor Nelson Sofres, was commissioned to mark the National Bingo Game Association.
Over 1000 people voted for their top ground shaking moments of all time in three categories:- innovative, sporting and historical news. Respondents then selected their overall number 1 ground shaking moment from the 3 categories to reach the ultimate top 10 ground shaking moments of all time.
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