Photo in new Arts Award booklet

This picture of Marcus was taken by Lisa during the trip to see street art at Tate Modern in the summer. Here 's the photo as used in the new version of the Arts Award silver booklet for young people...

9 Dads and Mums achieved bronze awards in the summer ( go to blog archive to see posts and pictures from the visit and the award).

Travel for the trip was funded by the Arts Award Access fund, and this is one of the photos sent in with the funding report. Bayford Arts is the name of Jackie's Arts Award centre, through which we took part.

Nice to see Lisa's photo inspiring lots of other young people around the country working towards their awards!

Find out more about the Arts Award at http://www.artsaward.org.uk/

'Behind the Scenes' of the news interview

More from the Celebrate Success evening, 'behind the scenes' the Dads being interviewed for ITV news.

Getting Seen

The DVD trailer, on YouTube and on the blog, has been seen over 200 times, including 9 times from USA and 2 times from Canada.

'Google Analytics' reckons the blog has been seen by over 516 different people, mainly from the UK but also from USA, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain. The average time people look at the blog is 3 minutes - so hopefully they're finding it interesting! It seems so, as 686 more visits are by returning visitors. There's a steady, growing stream of new people visiting the blog each week.

The counter on the blog, added a month or so after it started, shows 3611 today - that's the number of times pages from the blog have been looked at!

About half the blog's visitors come direct, others come through links from websites including fatherhoodinstitute.net, youngfather.net, jackiecalderwood.com, sparksite.co.uk and bbc.co.uk.

Whilst I've got my 'numbers' head on, the Dads Matter Too myspace has had 73 views, and the music tracks have been played 35 times!

A Few More Photos...

Celebrating Success!

Here are, reading from left to right, Mark, Steven, Rob, Brett, Gareth, John, Den, Karl and Chris at the Bristol Marriott last Wednesday night. Smart, or what! Looking proud and happy. You bet! And every right to be so. They had just won the Award they'd been shortlisted for. It was just a pity that Marcus couldn't get time off work and Chris couldn't get time off from his college course to be there and join in the celebrations. Den met Theone, another Award winner, who was so impressed with Den's lyrics that he offered to record him. So who knows where this will lead. A great evening.

Video: Community Impact Award Winners...

Celebrating Success on ITV News

Dads Matter Too won the Prince's Trust SW Community Impact Award - presented at the Celebrate Success reception in the Marriott Hotel, Bristol last night. Fantastic!
The Dads were filmed receiving the award and interviewed afterwards for ITV news, broadcast thisevening.

Watch the news item on the link below (let the 30 seconds advert finish playing, then watch or forward the news - Celebrate Success and Dads Matter Too starts at 14:35):
http://www.itvlocal.com/west/news/?player=WST_News_15&void=260481

More photos and video of the evening to follow...





Screenshots from news item at http://www.itvlocal.com/west/news/ on 20th November 2008

In the News with Swindon Artsmad

We're in the news again - in the winter 08-09 newsletter from Artsmad.

You can download the newsletter from:
http://www.artsmad.org.uk/

Calendar - Second Print Run

Jackie's just completed the artwork for a second print run of the calendar, with revisions.

here are the new look front cover and back label: