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Hartlepool Council is staging a new project for young people to explore how immigration has shaped the town’s character and fortunes.

The Changing Face of Hartlepool the eight-month project is open to young people aged 13-19 and is led by the Arts For Teens Group – working with Hartlepool Council’s Youth Support, Museums and Libraries Services to create better cultural opportunities for young people in Hartlepool.

As well as researching immigration to Hartlepool – both historical and contemporary – and exploring the various cultures, there will also be opportunities for the young people to learn more about their own family tree
and work with a filmmaker to document their local community.

The Changing Face of Hartlepool project is being funded from £34,700, which the Arts For Teens Group bid for from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

“The project is all about celebrating difference and promoting tolerance,” says Project Co-ordinator Jo Hislop of the Council’s Youth Support Service.

“Hartlepool has always had a strong history of immigration – from movements of people for trading reasons during the Saxon and medieval periods, right through to Victorian times when there was a large influx of Jewish people fleeing the pogroms in Western Russia, and Cornish and Scottish people came to the area for work in the iron-making and shipbuilding industries.

“It will be a really fascinating project – and we have lined up lots of related activities for the young people to enjoy as well, such as the family history workshops and the filmmaking.

“The youngsters can pick and choose which activities they do – and as well as it being lots of fun, they will also be gaining new skills and increasing their self-confidence.”

In September 2015, councillors turned down an application by a developer to turn a derelict hostel into an HMO to house 20 refugees because the premises was in an area where there was a high crime rate – and no on site warden or supervision would be provided for the occupiers, who would mainly be mothers and children.

However, in September, Hartlepool residents and 50 volunteers collected vanloads of donations to send to refugees in Europe, as one of six collection points across the northeast of England responding to a call for help from the group North East Solidarity with Calais Refugees.

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