Grampus Heritage and Training

Brief

Grampus Heritage and Training Ltd is a non-profit based in Northern England that has managed European heritage, archaeology, and traditional skills projects since 1997, acting as a delivery partner for schemes including Erasmus+ and the UK Turing Scheme. Taskscape was contracted to produce a series of web documentaries about various EU-funded courses run by Grampus across Europe, bringing cultural heritage, craft, and fashion industry professionals together with local craftspeople in heritage regions. The focus was on supporting contemporary narratives and economies for traditional crafts, from lacemaking and embroidery to traditional building, woodcarving and blacksmithing.

Among these was Green Village, a Grampus-coordinated international partnership across Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Romania and Slovakia. Originally funded under the EU's Leonardo da Vinci programme and continued through Erasmus+, Green Village developed a vocational training curriculum built around four pillars of rural sustainability: environmental, cultural, social and economic. The curriculum still informs Grampus's placements and training today.

Activity

• Created web-documentary-style video series for different course strands and modules
• Filmed craftspeople, course participants and heritage settings across multiple countries, focusing on areas of North and South Cyprus, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia.
• Produced The Four Pillars of Sustainability, a documentary about the Green Village programme exploring environmental, cultural, social and economic sustainability in rural craft communities.

Outcomes

• Films were played within courses and shared online to enhance participant understanding and develop cross-European perspectives
• Content encouraged participation, raised awareness and illustrated the range and impacts of Grampus’s heritage training activity with funders