24 May 2013
22 April 2013
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27 March 2013
If you have an interest in writing and have been unemployed for 6 months or more and wish to join the programme please contact Jess or Grant on 020 3556 5772 or email grant@poachedcreative.org.uk.
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1 November 2012
Poached Creative staff, volunteers and trainees recently took part in a team 'away day' at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. The away day was a chance for Jess and the team to brainstorm ideas on how to move forward and see whether the original objectives for the organisation still held true.
The team also enjoyed some fun activities - taking the Emirates Air Line cable car across the Thames and a team-building activity involving spaghetti and jelly babies!
We will be putting some of the ideas into practice over the coming months so what this space!
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16 November 2012
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Poached trainees tour new BBC centre
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The Poached Creative trainees were treated to a tour of the new BBC centre last week, thanks to their mentor Grant and BBC correspondent Emma Jane Kirby.
The tour included the newsroom – one of the largest in the world -and the BBC News 24 studios, the original 1930s management board room, and the BBC Radio One and One Extra studios, where they saw Sara Cox live on air!
Trainees had the exciting opportunity to talk to two BBC correspondents and ask them questions about journalism and the BBC.
Other highlights of the tour included a glamorous secret entrance for celebrity guests of Radio One, the original Tardis from Doctor Who, and a sighting of famous comedian Al Murray!
Poached trainees got their chance to be ‘real’ presenters for the BBC News and Weather, using a special mini-studio for tour guests.
This was Poached Creative trainee Ismail’s favourite part of the tour:“I saw a bunch of school kids let loose on it, and they were finding it fun, and then we got on there, and we found it just as much fun! I thought it was clever, it was fully interactive … it felt like walking in on the set.”
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Trainees had the exciting opportunity to talk to two BBC correspondents and ask them questions about journalism and the BBC.
Other highlights of the tour included a glamorous secret entrance for celebrity guests of Radio One, the original Tardis from Doctor Who, and a sighting of famous comedian Al Murray!
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| Ismail and Papa Jay present the news |
Poached trainees got their chance to be ‘real’ presenters for the BBC News and Weather, using a special mini-studio for tour guests.
This was Poached Creative trainee Ismail’s favourite part of the tour:“I saw a bunch of school kids let loose on it, and they were finding it fun, and then we got on there, and we found it just as much fun! I thought it was clever, it was fully interactive … it felt like walking in on the set.”
22 April 2013
Poached Creative turns four!
Poached Creative celebrated its fourth birthday on 15 April with a
get-together for trainees, past and present.
In four years, we’ve had the privilege of working with a vast range of
people and organisations, including large clients such as the Department of
Health and Plan UK and local groups like creative arts company Heart n Soul and
Hackney charity Off Centre. Furthermore, our clients really appreciate our
unique approach to projects. In response to our work on their social media and
e-newsletters, vinvolved East London said that “Poached Creative offered a very
tailored and supportive communications design service to exactly suit our
needs.”
We’ve provided media and communications training to more than 170
people, both through Poached’s in-house training programme and via outreach
events such as Discover Young Hackney and Radio 1 and 1Xtra Hackney Academy.
Many of our trainees have gone on to further training and employment.
Appiah had been unemployed for over three years until he came to Poached
Creative. After completing the training, he found work as an editorial
assistant for the NHS Confederation. “Poached Creative gave me a chance to do
something that I wanted to do. I was able to use my skills and I was with
people who were prepared to share skills and teach me something.” Find out what
our past trainees are up to now.
Jessica Smith, director and founder of Poached Creative, says: “It’s
hard to believe that it has been four years since I began the pilot programme
with two trainees in Wood Green library. Working with people from so many
different backgrounds and nurturing their talents is so rewarding and gets me
out of bed in the morning. I’m so proud of what we’ve achieved.”
With your help we're continuing to grow - we now employ five people and
support a pool of talented freelancers. Keep an eye on our portfolio and news page and follow us on Twitter.
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27 March 2013
New training programme at Poached
We will be running a new Writing and Communications training programme which will start on Tuesday 9 April 2013.
This time around we will be extending it to eight weeks instead of the usual six. This means that we'll be able to cover more ground!
Our programme will cover:
- Communications and audiences
- Writing for the web
- Introduction to social media and social networking. What is blogging? Why use Twitter?
- News writing
- Feature writing
- Interviewing and case studies
- Editing and proofreading
- How to go freelance?
We're also excited to be able to give our trainees the opportunity to do a guided tour of the new BBC Broadcasting House newsroom - one of the largest in the world.
If you have an interest in writing and have been unemployed for 6 months or more and wish to join the programme please contact Jess or Grant on 020 3556 5772 or email grant@poachedcreative.org.uk.
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4 February 2013
All Aspects - our unique youth media team
We're really excited to be part of the Discover Young Hackney festival again this year. We are working with a youth lead reporting team, All Aspects, throughout the festival this February to train and support them to cover the event.
Whether it's a photography, film or social networking that you're into, we'll help them to get interviews, photo opportunities and behind the scenes at events.
The All Aspects concept was created by one of our talented young trainees, Ondre, to offer young people practical experience and real career opportunities in creative media.
We will be running workshops that will equip the team with the skills and knowledge to report on the festival. These will include event reporting and both photography and video editing masterclasses.
Each member of All Aspects will be paired up with an industry mentor in their area of interest, who will give them feedback on their work, help them with their portfolio and give them inside industry knowledge and contacts.
The crew will then run a half day workshop on Monday 18 February to inspire other young people who want a career in creative media. It's still not too late to get involved though! There are still spaces available for young people to join the team.
To find out more or to get involved contact Lara on 202 3556 5772 or email lara@poachedcreative.org.uk.
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1 November 2012
Poached away day to generate ideas for the future
The team also enjoyed some fun activities - taking the Emirates Air Line cable car across the Thames and a team-building activity involving spaghetti and jelly babies!
We will be putting some of the ideas into practice over the coming months so what this space!
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16 November 2012
'Buy Social' campaign went down a treat on Social Enterprise Day
Poached Creative are currently involved in Social Enterprise UK's year long campaign that will have done 500 deals with other social enterprises by November 2013.
The campaign called 'Buy Social' aims to encourage social enterprises to 'do a great deal' by buying products and services from one another.
Poached Creative ran an interactive workshop with social entrepreneurs and devised and delivered the campaign message and design. If you are trading with Poached Creative or any other social enterprise, then we encourage you to download the 'Buy Social' stamp from the SEUK website and wear your badge with pride!
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16 October 2012
Junior designer wanted - voluntary
A creative and motivated junior designer is needed to work on print and web design projects for two social enterprises at our offices in Hackney.
The junior designer will work with, and receive training from, Poached Creative's in-house designer and will get to work on exciting projects for Poached Creative and YH World as well as for clients such as Off Centre, Peabody and the NHS.
You'll be expected to commit to working a minimum of 6 hours/week for a period of two months. In return you'll get the chance to build your portfolio, access paid design work and get involved with a wide range of projects.
We're looking for a good communicator who already has some work to show us and is keen to build on their portfolio in a creative environment. To apply, please send your CV and brief cover letter to jess@poachedcreative.org.uk by Tuesday 30 October. Interviews will be held on 6 November.
19 September 2012
Do a great deal - buy social
Poached Creative is proud to have
delivered the design and messaging for Social Enterprise UK’s Buy Social
campaign, which launched yesterday.
Social Enterprise UK, the national body
representing social enterprises, aims to broker at least 500 deals between
social enterprises in the year-long campaign.
As a social enterprise communications
agency, Poached Creative is always looking to spread the word on the benefits
of the social economy and already uses a range of social suppliers.
Jessica Smith, Poached Creative
director, said:
“We use social enterprises for our
banking, CRB checks and printing needs and we’ve found we’re able to get what
we need at a good price, while achieving a social and environmental impact
beyond our own activities as the campaign says when we buy social we do a
great deal more.
“The Buy Social campaign is a fantastic
opportunity for us to show what we can do creatively. We harness the untapped creativity of long-term unemployed
people, who we train to work in communications.
The Information Gap
Social Enterprise UK research found that
88% of social enterprises would like to buy from other social enterprises but 1
in 4 have no social enterprises in their supply chain.
While social enterprises compete well
with other suppliers on quality and price, potential buyers in the social
sector don’t know where to find each other.
Join the Buy Social campaign
Sign up to finding a new social supplier
by Social Enterprise Day on Thursday 15 November, and help spread the
word.
- Twitter: @SocialEnt_UK and #buysocial
- Order a free directory of social suppliers and find out more on the Social Enterprise UK website.
- Add Poached Creative to your supply chain. Visit our portfolio to see what we can do and phone us for a quote on 020 3556 5772.
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8 August 2012
Get into journalism, writing or media
In partnership with online youth magazine YH World, Poached Creative is seeking applications for a free six-week writing and
media training programme starting on 21 August.
Trainees will work with media professionals
to learn about the creative process, writing for the web, use of social media,
entertainment writing, news writing and interviewing.
Trainers will include journalists
and copywriters from major national newspapers including the Daily Mail and ad
agencies such as Mother.
All participants will use what they learn in
the two-hour training sessions and put it in to practice writing for YH World,
local newspapers and Poached Creative to build their professional portfolios.
This free training will take place at Gallery
44 on the Regent’s Estate near Broadway Market, E8 4JR and at our offices in
Well Street, Hackney.
It is open to two groups:
· Hackney residents under 25 who are not in employment, education or training. To sign up, email michelletheeditor@gmail.com
· London residents of any age who are long-term unemployed and have an interest in writing
and media. Please apply with your CV and brief cover letter to info@poachedcreative.org.uk
Applications close at 5pm on Friday 17
August.
For more information phone 020 3556 5772 and
ask for Michelle or Grant. Find out more about our training and work experience
and read case
studies from past trainees.
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6 August 2012
Freedom Exhibition to open
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| Photo: Ruth Eghagha |
Poached Creative have joined forces with YH World, Off Centre and Art Against Knives to hold an exhibition at Boxpark. DA&D award winning photographer Niall O’Brien explores the idea of freedom with young creatives from Hackney, resulting in a series of works combining the ideas and talents of writers and photographers.
The exhibition will be screening local charity, Off Centre's short film 'Pagan' which is part of their latest campaign, Stop and Talk to change the law surrounding stop and search, and will feature a collection of photography, art and creative writing surrounding the responses to the riots, stop and search and freedom.
The exhibition will take place Thursday 9 August in the Art Against Knives shop at Boxpark from 6.30pm-8.30pm. Come along and share your thoughts and feedback.
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2 July 2012
BBC Radio 1 and 1xtra Academy in Hackney
Poached Creative and YH World ran the journalism sessions, part of an exciting programme
of broadcasts, celebrity appearances, Q&As and workshops from 1 to 22 June.
Young people taking part had the chance to interview celebrities from Trevor Nelson to Rita Ora and had their work published
and promoted to real audiences through Grime Daily, the Independent, the Hackney Gazette and the Daily Star. See their work on the Academy blog.
The full programme covered fashion, music, film, business and offered careers
advice. Radio shows were broadcast from the venue on Mare
St with big names and celebrities within the industry popping in for Q&A
sessions and offering advice.
The Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra Academy was part of Take It On, Radio 1’s
commitment to encourage young people to get inspired and get involved to
'take on' their future. Find out more on the BBC website.
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27 March 2012
Poached Creative joins the Eden Stanley Group
Poached is now part of the Eden Stanley Group, allowing us
to offer an even greater range of creative media services to our clients.
We still provide creative communications services for the
social sector including writing and editing, graphic design, marketing
campaigns, media training and communications strategy.
Working with the Eden Stanley Group means we can now offer
a full creative service including brand strategy, advertising, media planning, insight and PR.
The Eden Stanley Group is a communications and fundraising agency that integrates digital,
advertising, marketing and PR. The team combines outstanding creative
talent with experienced directors from the non-profit sector.
Joe Barrell, former director of communications at Save the Children, founded the group with Victoria Rae, who worked for five years as UNICEF’s director of communications. Creative director Phill Clark, direct marketing and CRM specialist Adriana
Poglia and Poached’s own director, Jessica Smith make up the rest of the team.
Together, we're excited to offer the 360°
Communications Audit to help charities and other non-profits develop sharper, outcome-driven communication strategies. The audits deliver audience, channel and organisational
insights, combining data gathering and analysis with person-to-person
consultation. If you'd like to know more, please get in touch.
Find out more on the Eden Stanley website.
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16 February 2012
Press Play: event reporting
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| Photo: Emma Gutteridge |
Working with video, photography and journalism professionals, nine young people had the chance to learn camera and interview techniques, sound recording and news writing.
See their stories and videos online at www.discoveryounghackney.com
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12 January 2012
Choose Life. Drop the Knife campaign launch
A group of 16-19 year olds from
Southwark has collaborated with some of London’s top creative talent to launch
a poster campaign with the hard-hitting message that knife crime can only end
in two ways – prison or death.
The 15 young men in the group have all
been personally affected by knife crime and want to reach out to other young
people who may be in danger of falling into gang culture and a life of crime.
Over 10 weeks the group focused
their ideas, planned and created the poster campaign with the help of
award-winning photographer Niall O’Brien, top illustration agency Moose and
Yeti and creative social enterprise Poached Creative.
The poster was launched at an event
on Thursday 12 January held at Art Against Knives’ gallery in Shoreditch.
Raj Khan, 19, said:
"After nine stabbings in the
Rockingham Estate between 2009 and 2010 we wanted to do something about it. We
hope this poster campaign will influence young people to put down the knives
and show them that there’s a path other than crime.”
Jessica Smith, Director of Poached
Creative, said:
“The young people involved in this
project have been determined to create a poster that will reach others like
them and reduce the number of deaths and injuries due to knife crime in London.
Youth-led projects like this help young people feel part of their community and
build skills that will help them in the future.”
Southwark charity Faces in Focus, in partnership with Connexions, provided them with advice, information, education and peer support.
Southwark charity Faces in Focus, in partnership with Connexions, provided them with advice, information, education and peer support.
Peabody, one of London’s oldest and
largest housing associations, backed the project through its youth-led Staying
Safe project, which is funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
Find out more at www.yourchoiceyourfuture.org
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21 December 2011
Sofa Surfer film and campaign launch
Short film Sofa Surfer trails the hardship of 23-year-old JRC who has spent years staying on friends' and relatives' sofas and - once again - has nowhere to go.
Young people like JRC are among London’s hidden homeless, moving from place to place not really knowing if it is safe or when they will have to move on next.
Crisis estimates that there are more than 400,000 hidden homeless in Great Britain.
Crisis estimates that there are more than 400,000 hidden homeless in Great Britain.
Youth charity, Off Centre, made the film to raise awareness about this issue and Poached Creative worked on the publicity for the launch on 21 December including a campaign to push for more safe accommodation for young people.
Add your voice at www.sofasurferfilm.com
Add your voice at www.sofasurferfilm.com
We are also asking youth organisations and homelessness charities to help us understand the extent of the problem by logging any young people (under 25) who are living in this situation in December/January because they have nowhere else to go. Please take five minutes to complete the survey.
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23 November 2011Viewpoint Magazine features Paralympic games website
The Paralympic Games website that Poached Creative have been working on with Heart n Soul has been featured in Mencap's magazine, Viewpoint (Page 32).
The website which was launched by six young people with learning disabilities, features three paralympic sports that will take place in the paralympics in 2012. These are swimming, athletics, table tennis and they also cover wheelchair rugby.
The Paralympic games are going to be a big event for London and so it is important that information is more accessible for people, especially those with learning disabilities. Heart n Soul's website makes this possible, "...We also want to help people with learning disabilities to engage with the internet and social media, and we hope the website will encourage that." Explained, Holly Stratton, Heart n Soul's training and taking part coordinator.
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16 November 2011
Poached and Peabody help Londoners to stay safe
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| The poster campaign team in Southwark |
Poached has worked with Peabody several times before, resulting in successful campaigns such as a short video to highlight the housing association's work getting over 55s online and building a blog with residents taking part in the Hackney Hosts volunteering scheme.
Jessica Smith, director of Poached Creative, said: “We are really excited to be working with Peabody on such an important issue. Giving young people the support and resources to see their ideas come to life is something that Poached Creative believes will make a difference to the individuals and the wider community.”
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13 October 2011
Press Play: event reporting workshops
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| Photo: Agenda Photography |
Become a festival reporter for Discover Young Hackney and learn how to plan, capture, edit and promote your stories.
Poached Creative and YH! World are running event reporting training in half-term to give you a taste of being a media journalist.
You’ll work with real journalists and video professionals to create content for YH! World and the Discover Young Hackney blog and find out about the most exciting projects going on for young people in Hackney.
With big events like the launch of Hackney Picturehouse in October, Discover Young Hackney in February and BBC Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend 2012 coming up, these workshops will help put you at the centre of the action.
When: Wednesday 26 October 10-4pm, Friday 28 October 2-5pm and four further weeks after school.
Sign up now for free: email jess@poachedcreative.org.uk with your name, age and address or phone number and tell us what interests you about media.
You’ll work with real journalists and video professionals to create content for YH! World and the Discover Young Hackney blog and find out about the most exciting projects going on for young people in Hackney.
With big events like the launch of Hackney Picturehouse in October, Discover Young Hackney in February and BBC Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend 2012 coming up, these workshops will help put you at the centre of the action.
When: Wednesday 26 October 10-4pm, Friday 28 October 2-5pm and four further weeks after school.
Sign up now for free: email jess@poachedcreative.org.uk with your name, age and address or phone number and tell us what interests you about media.
Poached provides services include writing and editing, graphic design, marketing campaigns, communications training and communications strategy. Find out more about our services.
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F.Y.I exhibition - you're invited
Join us in Hackney's Vyner St on Thursday 6 October for the opening of a photography exhibition drawing on the character and determination of six young creative Hackney people.
Poached Creative copywriter Rebekah Robertson wrote the profiles that will accompany images from Agenda Photography in FYI: Focused Young Individuals, which will run for a week at the Rebel Dining Society.
The photographs will also be on display at different sites around Dalston from 6 to 30 October, making up the Dalston Art Trail.
See the map and find out more at http://www.focusedyoungindividuals.com/
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30 Vyner Street, Hackney E2 9DQ
Private View: Thursday 6th October 2011 6-9pm
If you'd like to join us at the private view, please RSVP@ARTAGAINSTKNIVES.COM
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23 September 2011
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23 September 2011
Poached helps to launch Paralympics website
A group of young people with learning disabilities and a keen interest in media today launches a new website packed with accessible information about the 2012 Paralympics.
The London Paralympic Games, which open on 29 August 2012, will be the first Paralympics to allow athletes with learning disabilities to compete since the Spanish team faked their disabilities at the Sydney Games in 2000.
Heart and Soul’s Media Team wanted to create a place where people with learning disabilities could find out about the Games and get involved in disability sport.
Lilly Cook, 21, who is part of the Media Team and has been volunteering with Poached Creative said:
Lilly Cook, 21, who is part of the Media Team and has been volunteering with Poached Creative said:
“I can’t really believe we’ve done it. Going to International Paralympic Day was probably the best thing because we got to interview lots of Paralympians.”
The Media Team have been working since May, with the help of Poached Creative, to plan the website, research the Paralympics and create content including photos, video interviews and written articles.
The website features video interviews from wheelchair athlete David Weir and table tennis hopeful Will Bayley. It covers the three sports open to people with learning disabilities – swimming, athletics and table tennis – and also covers wheelchair rugby.
Visit the website at http://www.gamesthroughoureyes.com/
12 September 2011
Heart n Soul at International Paralympic Day
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| The Heart n Soul media team with Paralympian Will Bayley. |
The media team, made up of people with learning disabilities, is creating a website on the 2012 Paralympics so the event in Trafalgar Square was the ideal opportunity to get some interviews for the new site.
We witnessed Oscar Pistorius, known as 'the fastest man on no legs' running on the track outside the National Gallery and spoke to Paralympic table tennis player Will Bayley and wheelchair athlete David Weir about their hopes for 2012.
Still hungry for news, the media team did the rounds of the athletes promoting the day, speaking with Paralympic swimmers, fencers, boccia players and footballers.
The new website - The Games Through Our Eyes - launches at Heart n Soul's Squidz Club on Friday 23 September. Take a sneak peak at the homepage. Keep track of what the media team is up to on their Posterous blog.
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9 September 2011
Service for sight impaired launches in Poole
Insight, a project of Seamless support services, was launched at Poole's Lighthouse Arts Centre on 9 September 2011. The project, run by Wendy Imashev, will provide counselling, mentoring and social support services and Poached Creative was behind the service's new brand and marketing materials.
We produced a logo and strapline for Seamless and produced accessible marketing materials for Insight including oversized and braille business cards. We also put together the website, featuring an audio presentation describing the new Insight service.
Hackney Hosts blog goes live
Poached Creative has been working with the Hackney Hosts group to create a blog about volunteering in Hackney in the run up to the London 2012 games.
Hackney Hosts is a volunteering programme set up by Peabody Trust, in partnership with Hackney Council, to get residents involved in events and volunteering linked to the 2012 Olympic Games.
The blog was created over a six-week period and everything from the content, to the look and feel of the blog was chosen by the course participants. Take a look and keep up-to-date with the latest information as the group continue their journey.
Visit the Hackney Hosts blog.
20 May 2011
Peabody video goes live on Silver Surfers day
A video that Poached Creative produced for Peabody to highlight the housing association's work getting older people online has gone live on Peabody's YouTube channel on Silver Surfers Day today.
Poached Creative is working with Peabody to provide new media training to residents and volunteers, including its Networx programme that brings older and younger people together with technology.
Poached Creative is working with Peabody to provide new media training to residents and volunteers, including its Networx programme that brings older and younger people together with technology.
Young trainees from Poached Creative and YH World - Jenkins Akinola, Gabrielle Gilchrist and Lilly Cook - assisted on the video shoot under the direction of professional Justin Beardsell.
The video was shown at a Peabody staff away day and promoted through Peabody's Twitter account.
The video was shown at a Peabody staff away day and promoted through Peabody's Twitter account.
