Women at QED
From the collection of
Video Vera Presents, Video Vera
- Leeds
- 1986
Women at QED
Why do immigrants to the UK face so many obstacles when striving to reach their professional potential? And does this Bradford charity have a solution?
QED (Quest for Education and Development) is a charitable foundation which was set up in Bradford in 1990 to help local people from ethnic minorities find jobs and progress in their careers. Since then, the foundation has invested more than £16m directly in disadvantaged communities across the UK through education and training, careers guidance and employer engagement.
QED's approach is to work at a neighbourhood level to tackle inequality and disadvantage, by helping individuals fulfil their potential, contribute to society and be fairly rewarded for their efforts.
Quest for Education and Development was created in 1991, with its main aim to help the base of ethnic-minority communities, including training programmes for women to help them go into the community or a business environment.
Some of the women taking part in the training courses are interviewed and speak about their experiences, as do members from Vera Media who are running some of the courses.
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Presenting Video Vera
Seizing the means of production is the catalyst for change in these innovative feminist films.
Vera Media was a video production and training partnership founded in Leeds by Catherine Mitchell and Al Garthwaite in 1985. They specialised in participatory documentaries as a way to involve, develop and empower a wide variety of socially-excluded groups to tell their own stories through video.
Participants were taught technical and creative skills, with an emphasis on giving women control of technology they might traditionally have been excluded from using. For most participants this was an empowering experience which led to increased self-confidence, but it also made a contribution to the wider community beyond the trainees. The completed works always had public showings, for both invited guests and the general public. Communities had an opportunity to see themselves, their geography or their work championed as never before - and the legacy continues in this collection.
10 videos in this collection
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Video Vera Presents, Video Vera
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Introducing Vera Media
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This City Life
4
There's More to Drugs than Dying
5
Women at QED
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In Our Countries
7
Urban Exchange
8
Culture Counts
9
Obvious Women
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