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Founded in 1982, Connections Communications Centre is a registered charity dedicated to promoting cultural diversity and new opportunities in the media industry. We provide training, mentoring and job assistance to help open doors to the media industry for those excluded through lack of training and economic or social deprivation. Throughout the years, we have supported thousands of people in gaining employment in the film and broadcast industry or making films.

Connections’ projects are supported by: Learning and Skills Council; The London Development Agency, Department for Education and Skills (UK Online); The European Social Fund (Objective 2, Objective 3 and Equal); National Institute of Adult Continuing Education; London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham; Regenasis; New Deal for Communities, The Big Lottery (New Opportunities Fund) and Film London.

We also receive regular donations from Ravenscourt Media. If you are interested in hiring equipment and supporting the charitable aims of Connections, call the bookings office on 020 8563 7184, alternatively visit their website at: http://www.ravenscourtmedia.co.uk

Opportunities

Connections has a volunteering vacancy for an Office Assistant.

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Connections has a volunteering vacancy for a Fundraising Assistant.

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Connections has a volunteering vacancy for a Web Assistant.

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If you require any further information please contact trevor.burgess@cccmedia.co.uk T. 020 8735 6013

Connections has vacancies for Board Trustees.

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Please click here to download the Connections Aims and Objectives
Please click here to download the Trustee Job Description and Person Spec

For an informal chat please call Jacqueline Davis on
020 8735 6015
or e-mail to Jacqueline.davis@cccmedia.co.uk

Connections aims to be an Equal Opportunities Employer

Contact us

Connections Communications Centre Ltd.
Palingswick House
241 King Street
Hammersmith
W6 9LP
T: 020 8741 1766
F: 020 8563 9134
E: info@cccmedia.co.uk

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All premises are fully wheelchair accessible.

Press Room

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Please click here to download the Annual Report 05/06.

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Please click here to download the Annual Report 03/04.

Please click here to download the Annual Report 02/03.





Testimonials, Awards & Partners


Partners

BBC

“The BBC has supported Connections Communications Centre in a number of ways - through workshops, master classes, Q&A sessions and events at the BBC. It is an important part of our role to be supportive of community organisations where possible, and with Connections we can do this either by simply holding an event at the BBC for their animation screenings or by getting more involved with particular courses.
Coming from the BBC's Training & Development department, our support of Connections is mainly skills-based supporting their training courses as they help to broaden the skills base of people within the local community. For example, the Women in Broadcast programme - this scheme addresses an area where the BBC hopes to encourage women to gain skills to enable them to apply for trainee roles in technology and engineering. We have supported this scheme through mentoring and workshops. This is a good example of the BBC and Connections working together to help achieve a common goal, giving women the skills and encouragement to enable them to apply to jobs that were not traditionally seen as open to them.”
Faye Ruck-Nightingale – BBC.


Ucre8

Connections has formed a partnership with Collage Arts, National Theatre and Prevista. The partnership has enabled each of the training providers to evaluate and share good practice. Through Ucre8 we have looked at the non-formal learning sector for 13 to 17 year olds and we are developing an interactive web site that will engage young socially excluded people in learning and assessment opportunities.


Connections Patrons


Anna Home OBE



Anna Home OBE, Chief Executive, Children’s Film & Television Foundation, UK. Anna joined BBC radio as Studio Manager in 1960 and made the move to BBC TV in 1965 as part of the original Play School Production Team. From there she went on to help set up the ‘Jackanory’ series where she had the opportunity to work with many famous actors from the theatre and television. Director, Producer and Executive Producer for BBC TV’s Children’s programmes for over two decades, she specialised in children’s dramas, being responsible for starting ‘Grange Hill’ as well as bringing ‘The Narnia Chronicles’, ‘The Borrowers’ and many other classic children’s books to the television screen. After 20 years in the BBC she became a member of the winning consortium that set up TVS, the ITV licensee for the south and south east of England. There she became the Controller of Programmes (SE) in 1981, responsible for setting up a completely new production centre in Maidstone. She was also responsible for children’s and young people’s programmes and started the ground breaking and popular Saturday morning show ‘No. 73’. In 1986 she was invited to return to the BBC as Head of Children’s Television, where she was responsible for more than 1,000 hours of programming, for children of all ages. Her final commission for the BBC was ‘Teletubbies’. She has been a member of the Councils of BAFTA and the RTS and chaired the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Children’s Group for many years. She is a Board member of Telemagination, the Polka Theatre for Children and is the Chair of Cinemagic. She also works as a freelance consultant in children’s television. Currently chairing the Board of Eurokidnet, an organisation aiming to set up a Pan European Public Service Children’s network. She was awarded the OBE in 1993 and has received numerous awards and accolades for her contribution to Children and Young People’s Television. She is the author of a book about the history of children’s television ‘Into the Box of Delights’.




Board Of Trustees

Paul Brett Acting Chair of the Board of Trustees of Connections



Head of Cinema Services, British Film Institute (BFI), Paul is responsible for the BFI’s relationship with exhibitors throughout the UK. This includes ‘Arthouse’ cinemas such as the Educational Film House and the Manchester Cornerhouse as well as programmes of films with commercial operations. The Cinema Services Department of the bfi offers advice and guidance to all cinemas in the UK on issues ranging from strategic planning to programming. Paul is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and a member of the European Film Academy (EFA)

Paul also lectures throughout Europe and beyond on international film marketing and distribution with bodies funded by the European Media Programme (media Plus) including ARISTA and EAVE, as well as AVEA in Africa and the British Council throughout the rest of the world.

John Mandrak Vice Chair



John Mandrak came to the board in 1992 after moving to London with the BBC. His broadcasting career covered a wide range of disciplines, including Promotion & Publicity Assistant (BBC Engineering); Research Assistant (BBC-TV); Radio Reporter (BBC local Radio) and News Output Assistant (BBC World Service). John is registered blind and currently works at the Disabled Living Foundation, giving advice on solutions to independent living for older and disabled people, on their helpline.

John is married with two sons, and enjoys socialising and meeting people.

Gideon Okungo  Treasurer



Gideon Okungu, ACCA: "I joined the Charity sector in 1999 as an accountant. I have worked with different Organisations including NCH Action for children, Prisoners Abroad and the Public Trust Office, currently I am an accountant at the Disabled Living Foundation. I am a financial consultant for different ethnic organisations within UK through City Accountancy Services. I joined the CCC Board in 2003 and was elected as a Treasurer."

Phil Harding



Philip Harding is currently Director of English Networks and News at the BBC World Service and as such is responsible for all the BBC’s international radio programmes in English and for the nine streams that deliver that output to its 42 million listeners. He has held a variety of senior editorial jobs in BBC radio and television. From 1987-1993 he was Editor of the influential Today programme. During that time, the programme received four Sony Gold Awards and a Broadcast Press Guild award. He left the project to found a news and sport network for the BBC: Radio Five Live. The network received six Sony Awards and won Station of the Year.

In 1996 he became Controller, Editorial Policy with responsibility for the editorial and ethical standards of all BBC output: television, radio and online.

Philip Harding is married with one daughter. He enjoys watching football and loves walking and listening to 1960’s American Rhythm and Blues, Cuban and current African music.

Tim Wilson

Tim Wilson is a consultant in public affairs and communications, particularly within the media sector. Until March 2005 he was Director of Policy at TV and film production trade association Pact, among other things leading on issues around diversity in the production sector.

Prior to this he was a senior consultant at top consultancy Westminster Strategy, with clients including blue-chip companies, local government and non-governmental organisations. As well as his work with Connections Tim regularly advises small charities via the Media Trust.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

A fan of music and cinema, he is a member of the Institute for Contemporary Arts. He can also regularly be spotted watching Queens Park Rangers Football Club.

Connections Staff

Jacqueline Davis CEO and Company Secretary



Jacqueline.davis@cccmedia.co.uk
020 8735 6015

Jacqueline has led Connections since 1991, taking the organization from a turnover of £30k to £800k. She now leads a team of 20. Jacqueline graduated from the University of Essex with a 2:1 honours degree in Sociology. She then went onto achieve a post-graduate diploma in Management and a City & Guilds in TV & Video production. She has credits as executive producer on seven films that have premiered in a West End Cinema, one at the New Zealand Film Festival and eight animated films screened to an audience of three million people and as producer on many social documentaries and promos.


Trevor Burgess Director of Programmes



trevor.burgess@cccmedia.co.uk

Trevor is a visual artist, and trained as a gallery curator. He founded the Warehouse Artists Studios in Norwich, developing the organization over seven years to provide workspace for 30 artists. In 1997 he completed an MA in European Fine Art at Winchester School of Art. Before joining Connections in 2005 he worked as a Senior Project Manager at Prevista, where he managed a wide range of cultural programmes supporting economic and social development objectives. He is a SFEDI accredited Business Adviser, and has written and contributed to a number of reports in the field of the arts, culture and regeneration.

Gnanes Murugesu F.C.M.A - Accountant



gnanes.murugesu@cccmedia.co.uk


Gnanes qualified as Chartered Management Accountant in 1985. She has led the Connections Finance Team for two years. In her spare times she enjoys photography and her two children.


Richard Freeman Project Manager


Richard.freeman@cccmedia.co.uk

After founding Gobo Theatre Company in 1999, Richard worked with Theatre & Beyond, Intrepid Theatre , Sussex Youth Theatre and Oxford University as an actor and theatre-in-education practitioner. Richard has trained as an actor, director and writer with the Academy School of Speech & Drama, The National Youth Theatre and the Royal Court , and has appeared in a feature film. Richard holds a first-class honours degree in English & Theatre from the University of London and a Master's with distinction in English Studies from the University of Oxford alongside two academic prizes for excellence. Richard sits on the board of Metaplay Participatory Theatre Company as a non-executive director, but has been a member of the Connections team since 2006 and is responsible for the Media Writes programme and the 25th anniversary bursaries project. In his spare time, Richard enjoys photography, racquet sports and is a Samaritan volunteer.

Vanda.Cota@cccmedia.co.uk


Vanda graduated in Brazil with a degree in Publicity and Advertising. She is currently studying for a CIM Post-Graduate diploma in e-Marketing.
As a project manager she is responsible for the smooth running of the ‘Urban Cre8ors Young Adults’ and ‘Production Zone’ projects.
In her spare time, Vanda likes going out with friends and partying!

Ruhel Miah Monitoring officer



ruhel.miah@cccmedia.co.uk

I have a Diploma in Business Management, and have been working in the Charity sector for 7 years, I have worked with some of the most successful and recognised charities in the UK. I joined connection in Feb 2006, my duties involve the monitoring and evidencing of beneficiary recruitment, delivery, outputs and outcomes for European and government funded programmes, as well as compiling monitoring reports for internal evaluation and preparing claims and reports for funder’s. Over the next 5 years I aim to develop my skills and become an expert in contractual compliances and management.

Amos Nek ICT Officer



Amos.Nek@cccmedia.co.uk


Amos has a BEng in Electronic and Broadcast Engineering. After completing a six month course in Video production and web design at Connections, he started working as a volunteer. He is now working full time as an ICT officer. Amos enjoys films, music and traveling.


Peter Done Technical Assistant



Peter has been volunteering for Connections for over five years. He is a former BBC technician who donates his spare time to supporting new entrants into the media through Connections training and facilities.