May we have ten minutes?
We have put together an online
Questionnaire at http://www.otherpeopleschildren.org.uk,
the aim of which is to strengthen our understanding of audience and
potential audience for the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive
and Study Centre, and to support the major grant application for "Therapeutic Living With Other People's
Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care c.
1930 - c. 1980".
The Planned Environment Therapy
Trust Archive and Study Centre was founded in 1989. It is the only
Archive and Study Centre devoted exclusively (or is that
inclusively?) to therapeutic community environments in the world, and
we depend upon the diverse community we serve to keep us on our toes,
alert to their needs and to new ways in which we can extend our
resources and services to them and to the widest possible public. The
Archive and Study Centre website is at http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk
Our major grant application to the
Heritage Lottery Fund has come out of our work with former
children, families and staff of therapeutic communities for children
and young people. In this project we are trying to apply everything
we have learned over the past twenty years to help meet their needs
for place and foundation, and to introduce the wider community to an
area of the national life and heritage which is immensely rich -
challenging, but with tremendous rewards in learning and
understanding. Browse this site to find out more about "Therapeutic Living With
Other Peoples Children: residential therapeutic child care c. 1930 -
c. 1980", and the principles underlying it..
We have been awarded a development grant from the Heritage
Lottery Fund to help us to prepare the strongest application possible
by the submission deadline of August 28, 2009. Whether you know anything about the Archive and Study Centre or not - whether you know anything about residential therapeutic child care or not - your help is
essential.
By taking ten to fifteen minutes to answer the
questionnaire at http://www.otherpeopleschildren.org.uk
you will help to strengthen the application tremendously, by
providing detailed information on audiences and potential audiences
for the Archive and Study Centre and the Oral History project itself.
Having said which, all the online questionnaires are answered
anonymously, and though we do ask some age/gender/profession-type
questions, no identifying information is gathered, and these
questions are only there to help us understand the who, where, if,
and how of the current and possible audience. Yes, the questionnaire
is more verbose than one put together by professional pollsters; but, yes, we are
also very very grateful for your willingness to complete it. It
should take no more than 10 to 15 minutes, according to all of the
trials so far.
Your feedback on the questionnaire itself is
also very welcome. This is a learning experience for us.
If you wish to be on our mailing list, and
be kept up to date with the progress of the "Other Peoples
Children" application, project and other things, please email the P.E.T.T. Archive and Study Centre's archivist, directly.
Questionnaire: http://www.otherpeopleschildren.org.uk.