Your chance to apply for a £1,000 bursary at The Y

Author: Andrew Punshon
E-mail: apunshon@leicesterymca.co.uk
Title: Your chance to apply for a £1,000 bursary at The Y
Artists have the chance of a £1,000 bursary aimed at helping to launch the exciting new Emergency Room project at The Y theatre in Leicester. It is a new Artist in Residence Opportunity for artists based in Leicester and theEast [...]

John Coster Blog: We came We Reported We Conquered

Sky Ride and the 8th Bike Film Festival are now over and the feedback from people has been fantastic.
The 50 community reporters did a great job of capturing the cycling event that saw over 12,500 people enjoy the traffic-free streets of Leicester.
Phoenix Square played host to the film festival with audiences enjoying Jacques Tates [...]

Inspire LeicesterShire 2012 Olympics & Paralympics

Welcome to Inspire LeicesterShire, the website that keeps you up to date with what is happening in Leicester and Leicestershire to maximise the benefits of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
If you have an interest in journalism why not join the Citizen’s Eye team and become one of the 2,012 Citizen Reporters recruited across [...]

CAPs Off To Tara & Andy

Well done to the CAPs or Community Action Photographers led by co-editors Tara Gatherer & Andy Williams.
They put in a great effort with their team and have been rewarded with a great article on page 12 of today’s Leicester Mercury – http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Citizens-Skyride-photos-capture-atmosphere-day/article-2589849-detail/article.html
The thisisleicestershire website has a photo gallery of their images -http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/skyridegallery.html
And also BBC [...]

Special Olympians Take Part In Sky Ride

James Black
Amongst the cyclists taking part in Leicester’s Sky Ride event on August 29th were a team of Special Olympians.
The team got involved with the event through Steve Humphries the organiser of the GB Special Olympics which took place in Leicester in the summer of 2009.
The group of 11 cyclists began the course at Abbey Park [...]

Heavenly Chorus At Sky Ride

James Black
Over 60 members of the Emmanu’–El Apostolic Gospel Academy attended Leicester’s Sky Ride event yesterday.
The choir started the bike ride at Leicester’s Abbey Park before making their way along to Phoenix Square. I had the opportunity to chat to Pastor Samuel and Bishop Mark Anderson about the group’s activities.

The Emmau’-El Apostolic Gospel Academy has been [...]

Action Homeless at Sky Ride

James Black
Many of the cyclists who took part in Leicester’s Sky Ride event on August 29th were either competing in the event to raise money for charity or awareness of a particular charitable organisation.
Jonathon Cryer, Senior Fundraiser for Action Homeless talked to me about the important work carried out by the organisation and his participation in Sky [...]

12.5k Cyclists Take Part In The Leicester Sky Ride

Leicester’s Sky Ride saw 12,000 cyclists fill the city streets and enjoy some of the iconic landmarks in a traffic-free environment.
The 50 media volunteers based at the Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre captured all the excitement of the day including You Tube films, Photos on Flickr, Ipadio audio interviews and lots more including [...]

8th Bike Film Festival Open

Fantastic start to 8th Bike Film Festival with approx. 50 people enjoying the first film – Jour de Fete.
The film festival taking place at Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre is on till Sunday.

Come & join us and meet the Volunteer Media Hub Reporters who are available to interview you about your review!
8th Bike [...]

Mark Clark Interviews Cllr Manjula Sood

Author: Mark Clark
E-mail: editor@inomag.org
Title: Interview with Cllr Majula Sood
Manjula Sood, the Sport England East Midlands Area and a past Lady Mayoress came to the Sky Ride to represent grass root sports in readiness for the 2012 Olympics and ParaOlympics. The Sky Ride Event is a by- product of this.
Further details of SportsEngland can be found [...]

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