Our second residential course at Hazelwood Castle near York. Before we owned our own centre we hired other venues to run our pilot residential courses. We learned so much from these early courses. This archive film gives a flavour of one of our earliest - a 4 day course. ‘Here you can see Peter Goode, one of the founder members, welcoming all and introducing Pecket and the course. You can also see the efforts we made to include disabled people.’ Ali Mantle ran our first workshop on sexuality which led the way to ongoing opportunities for people to explore their own sexuality and learn about this and other forms of discrimination and prejudice.
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This video was part of Pecket Learning Communitiy's digital archive, which is no longer available due to funding. The FWWCP Collection is working with members from Pecket to hopefully reestablish Pecket's wesbite, but until that time, we have been able to share some resources here. To learn more about Pecket Well College and Pecket Learning Community, read Telling It, written by Cilla Ross and shortened by Pauline Nugent, which tells the story of Pecket with an oral history from its members. The description for this video was originally written on the Pecket archive website. Pecket Well College was a member of the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers. Please note: Any video use should credit Pecket Learning Community (pecket.org)
Not all documents in the archive have been digitized. If the download is not available, please inquire about accessing the item, which is housed at the Trades Union Congress Library's Special Collections in London, England.
