Rochdale Community Champions that have completed the leadership and research training with Edge Hill University have continued to work with us, within the Expert Practitioner Program. Their latest project is a radio play.

‘Poverty Knock‘ – Expert practitioner volunteers from the Rochdale Community Champions have created a poignant and inspiring radio play reflecting on the links and repetitions in recent social history, considering the similarities in current welfare reform to the workhouse of Rochdale in the 1930s.

The volunteers have been visiting Edge Hill, working with Gary Westhead, in the University Sound Recording Studios. The volunteers have been recording the audio to their play and while this is being edited they are planning their return to the studios, bringing a group of clog dancers and musicians to provide musical accompaniment.