CONNECTIONS COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF SUPPORTING NEW TALENT INTO THE FILM AND BROADCAST INDUSTRY. Connections Communications Centre, the charity that uses film, TV media and leadership skills to give new opportunities to young people is celebrating their 25th anniversary. For the past 25 years Connections has supported excluded teenagers to emerging directors. Through excellence and innovation in education and career development they have give those with a story to tell the medium to deliver. To mark the 25th anniversary, Connections is launching a new bursary scheme offering companies the opportunity to contribute to the scheme whilst accessing the energy, creativity and drive of talented young individuals. These bursaries are creating the facility for young people to develop their technical and professional skills into marketable products. Companies can choose from a range of bursaries, with film content ranging from relevant contemporary issues and corporate social responsibility initiatives. The bursaries will result in broadcast quality films created by those who would not otherwise have had the opportunity. In the past two years, Connections has supported over 400 young people with structured video camera editing and music technology training. Over 80 of trainees come from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds. Nearly all of the young learners are at risk of exclusion or are not in any other education, training or employment. Jackie Davis says “Connections currently has a client base of over 160 small west London creative business networks, we are keen to expand this network to increase the number of young people we can help. Through our bursary programme we hope to engage companies looking to expand their corporate responsibility programmes into their advertising programme by using our young people to build their products.” For further information of the bursary packages, please contact Jacqueline Davis on 020 8735 6015.