Partners

As well as funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, essential to the success of the project was the partner organisations who between them guided and managed the work. These are the publishers of the book, 'Seasons to taste', The Farming Life Centre, Read On - Write Away!, who supported the volunteers, and East Midlands Oral History Archive, where Colin Hyde trained the team how to ‘do’ oral history.

The Farming Life Centre 

The Peak District Food Heritage Project has allowed the Centre to record so much important information about food production, marketing, preparation and consumption over the years and the resulting book, audio material and archive will be an invaluable resource for present and future generations.

Julia Cook, Farming Life Centre Manager

Read On - Write Away!

Read On - Write Away! is an independent partnership which aims to improve literacy and basic skills in Derbyshire and Derby City. Over the last 11 years, ROWA! has developed a community literacy and basic skills strategy based on a ‘cradle to grave’ approach, working closely with local partners. Targeting areas of high social need, ROWA! works with the key players in local communities, as well as strategic bodies at local, regional and national levels.  ROWA! includes schools in its community literacy strategy, whilst emphasising the family as a vehicle for learning. From the outset, the emphasis has been on learning as a ‘fun activity’ and celebration of achievement at all levels. ROWA! has developed an expertise in the training and management of volunteers, who consistently give of their time and skill to play an invaluable role in ROWA!’s work, especially with socially excluded young people. The partnership with The Farming Life Centre came about because of the reputation ROWA! has for working with volunteers and led to this fascinating oral history project. As always, the plaudits should go to the volunteers who have spent hours interviewing, editing and photographing without reward except that of being part of the team which has produced this book.

Tony Faulkner, Volunteer Manager

Read On – Write Away!

01246 204851 ext 305    www.rowa.org.uk   e-mail info@rowa.org.uk

East Midlands Oral History Archive

The East Midlands Oral History Archive was originally funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish the first large-scale archive of oral history recordings for Leicestershire & Rutland. The recordings are deposited in the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland. The project’s website has a searchable catalogue and a wide range of online resources for both schools and the public. EMOHA has also generated new oral history recordings through its own programme of interviewing, and provides advice, training and support for community groups, museums and heritage organisations, students and other individuals who are interested in developing their own projects. EMOHA is a partnership between the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester, Leicestershire County Council and Leicester City Museums and Library Services.

Colin Hyde
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Centre for Urban History
University of Leicester
LE1 7RH
0116 2525065             www.le.ac.uk/emoha  email: emoha@le.ac.uk

David Fine

After previous careers in archaeology, education and social work, David Fine is a fifty-five year old writer who has lived in Bakewell since 1992. His work ranges from a humourous book about the French Revolution to being the poet-in-residence on the last Ashes tour to Australia, and includes both a history of Sheffield and a thriller, The Executioner’s Art, set in Sheffield. “For a writer and poet used to working entirely on their own from material within to create poetry and fiction, Seasons to Taste has been a strange project, relating oral history to the printed page as part of a small and highly enthusiastic team. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.”

David Fine

4 Pickford Villas

Monyash Road

Bakewell

Derbyshire

DE45 1FG

01629 812075

david@fineandandy.co.uk