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Work for the Community Ian has achieved outstanding projects in many community contexts - often enabling people with no experience of broadcasting to achieve exceptional new creative works for radio, and producing pieces for the benefit of the wider community. If you have a project to realise, IQK has the experience to deliver products of the highest quality in any context. IQK is often happy to discount for community projects. Email enquiries@iqkennedy.co.uk to get the ball rolling. |
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Save Five Ways Campaign |
In late 2007, a number of businesses, venues and community projects in central Birmingham were faced with the sudden closure of their premises to make way for redevelopment, Ian launched the ‘Save Five Ways’ campaign on behalf of these and other independent businesses, proposing a new area of Birmingham City Centre to be set aside for independent businesses, venues and community interests that are being squeezed out by redevelopments and rising land values. Succeeding in gaining widespread media coverage (Channel 5 News, BBC WM, Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Post, Birmingham News, and WhatsOnUK’s publications including a feature written by Ian) and supported by politicians including Clare Short, the campaign succeeded in gaining an extension to his clients' tenancies and raising awareness of the issues facing small businesses in our city centres. |
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| Copywriting for the Community | Ian has produced a business plan and funding application to enable an ethical company, CityGuides, to relocate and sustain its ethical venue and community projects, and has written the copy for a website for a community sports & music organisation, Fit For Life. | |
| Prisons Radio Drama | Ian was invited to join BBC WM's ambitious prisons project in 2006, and took a leading role in enabling inmates to write and perform their own radio drama for broadcast on the station. Ian has led classes and discussions, advising and editing on scripts and directing broadcast quality radio drama production from within HMP Birmingham; the powerful broadcast that was put forward for Gillard awards and is now available online. | |
Regeneration areas |
Ian's prior community radio work has brought distinctive and successful new audio projects to Castle Vale Community Radio, a station serving a historically deprived but close-knit community in North Birmingham. Between 1994 and 2005 this notorious former council estate was subject to a massive regeneration effort, and Ian marked the completion of this community-led and internationally-renowned transformation with two major projects. |
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Castle Vale Housing Action Trust commissioned Ian to make a commemorative CD to mark the completion of their regeneration work. Recording material from the live event to mark the end of the H.A.T. and interviewing local residents there, Ian made a half-hour piece telling the residents' own story of the history of the estate - from idyllic urban paradise to notorious decline, to internationally-renowned regenerated community. 600 copies were made and distributed (with Ian arranging the sleeve design as well as the audio) and the resulting CD has won praise from Government Minister Lord Rooker. You can also download it from http://www.cvhat.org.uk/media.html |
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HMP Hewell Grange Induction CD |
The Prisons Service has commissioned Ian to 'sex up' the induction CD for new inmates of HMP Hewell Grange, generating sleeve and on-CD designs as well as producing and adapting the audio. |
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A People's History of Castle Vale |
Introduced by prominent and popular West Midlands historian and broadcaster Carl Chinn, this documentary in three twenty-minute parts told the full story of Castle Vale (above) from studio interviews with important figures in the area's history and local residents who had lived through the remarkable changes of the estate. Ian also discussed the series on air after each broadcast at Castle Vale Community Radio. The project was assisted by BBC WM, who hosted a live Carl Chinn event to promote the documentary including an interview with Ian. Ian also provided the station with five three-minute features made with material from the documentary, which were broadcast in the popular Adrian Goldberg breakfast programme. You can hear these at IQK's downloads page. |
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Creativity in schools |
If you're looking to bring literature, drama or the media to life for students in schools, Ian has the experience and the skills to do it. He took a week of classes at Brierley Hill Primary School in 2004 for Big Arts Week - successfully bringing creative literature classes to a multicultural innercity school with pupils aged 4-11. With specially designed classes for the needs of each year group, Ian brought a theme of communication to life with vibrant projects. And if you're not convinced Ian can handle an unruly class of your youngsters, don't forget he's led successful projects in prison too! |
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Faith groups |
Ian's writing for multicultural BBC Asian Network soap opera Silver Street has enabled him to explore issues in many of the faiths active in Britain today, and in 2004 Ian made five features exploring the changing face of faith across the West Midlands area for BBC WM. These included...
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Student radio achievements |
Ian's prisons work was a natural progression from his work in co-founding award-winning student soap opera Lenton Boulevard, producing 17 weekly episodes in a year, written by and starring 35 student volunteers as well as Ian himself. Ian was Head Writer and also starred in, directed and produced episodes, as well as compiling and writing the show's successful entry for 'Best Entertainment Show' at the Radio 1 Student Radio Awards. As well as Lenton Boulevard, Ian's work for multi-award-winning student radio station URN 1350 was wide-ranging. He presented news and discussion programmes, including an interview with Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist captured by the Taliban in 2002, and with rock bands. He also presented his own music programme and Lenton Boulevard, helped with live events on location among our campus audience, and produced a brooding and ironic soundtrack for his debut play Haze. You can download 6min or 3min versions of his demo of this work (6.4MB/ 3.4MB). |
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Award-winning drama by communities, for communities: Building on his achievements, Ian now aims to lead a community soap opera among the West Midlands' new permanent community radio stations, written by and starring local volunteers and otherwise run by Ian. If this is of interest, contact enquiries@iqkennedy.co.uk >BBC WM (West Midlands) - Family Man prison drama |
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