Young People Get The Fire Safety Message

06 October 2008

Fire safety messages broadcast in the run-up to Bonfire Night should have a greater impact this year thanks to the young people taking part in Ariel’s newest project.

Aged between 16 and 25, they’re part of ‘Make Your Voice Heard’ a project that has seen them working with professional writers and producers to make adverts and social action pieces that’ll be heard on radio stations across Merseyside.

As part of the eight-week multimedia project those taking part have received training in radio production and learned how to produce content for the web. They’ve used their newly acquired skills to record the experiences of a range of people including those of their peers and members of the emergency services.

The resulting audio has formed the basis of a fire safety campaign due to be broadcast in the weeks before the 5th November. Some of the material is also being used in a series of fire-related discussion programmes which will air in the build up to Bonfire Night.

The two programmes (one broadcast on City Talk 105.9 and the other on Knowsley's KCC Live) will give an invited audience the chance to express their views and question a panel of experts and those in authority.