This was the week BRACE finally arrived on YouTube. We uploaded some films taken by volunteer filmmaker James Murray-White at the public meeting we held in Frome last month.
A meeting is not the most visual of activities, but James did a great job filming the event and then editing the films and slotting in slides from the presentations. We had well over 70 people in the room, and they heard some very interesting speakers. All the details are here, including a link to the films.
This highlights one of BRACE’s great strengths. One of the things that make us different – compared to national charities – is that, while you won’t find us on BBC breakfast television, you might well find us in your local community building. In this case we were in Rook Lane Arts Centre in Frome. The following evening we held a very similar meeting in The Guildhall, Salisbury. We send speakers, including me, to schools, Rotary Clubs, the WI, church groups and others who invite us.
This makes us stand out as a charity which can engage the public in a very different way. Staff, Trustees and volunteers from BRACE attend dozens of meetings of this sort every year and arrange gatherings like the one in Frome. And as the films show, we are quite often able to bring the public into contact with the researchers themselves.
YouTube makes globally available what was truly local. You might say that the same is true of everything we do – global benefit from all the hard work done in a rather more limited geographical area.
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