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Accentuate Parliament video: 500 days remaining.
Accentuate is the London 2012 Legacy Programme for the South East, launched on 3rd December 2009.
Caroline Cardus
This day marked the 1000 day countdown to the Paralympic Games. Accentuate consists of 15 ambitious projects which represent the arts, film, tourism, business, sport and heritage. All 15 projects aim to promote the talent of deaf and disabled people in whatever area they work in. Accentuate aims to create a cultural shift in the way disabled people are seen and provide a variety of opportunities for disabled people to take part and to lead.
The inspiration for Accentuate is the Paralympic Movement.
This movement started at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and this is the unique heritage for the South East. The home for Accentuate is Screen South, based at their offices in Folkestone. The scale and ambition of Accentuate means it is necessary to work with a variety of partner organisations who are delivering the 15 projects. Some of these organisations are:
Accentuate is funded by Legacy Trust UK
Accentuate is funded by Legacy Trust UK an independent charity whose mission is to support a wide range of innovative cultural and sporting activities which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. and will leave a lasting legacy in communities throughout the United Kingdom. The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) has also invested significant financial support in Accentuate, as have the regional cultural agencies.
Accentuate believes disabled people must be at the heart of everything we do.
Our View helps to ensure this happens. Our View is a diverse group of talented deaf and disabled people. The Our View Core Group acts strategically as an internal steering group. Our View Project People have direct relationships with individual projects.
Accentuate projects fall into five ambitions or outcomes.
That disabled young people have the opportunity to create, explore and share new ways of working with other disabled young people and their peers, locally, nationally and internationally
That the South East becomes the most welcoming and accessible region for disabled people in the UK.
That the South East region is recognised as a lead region in the UK for disability and deaf cultural activity and as an international centre of excellence.
That the South East's role as the birthplace of the Paralympic movement at Stoke Mandeville is recognised by the world and that its historic archive and the individual histories of Paralympian athletes alongside the impact of the movement itself is explored by artists, and young people in the South East.
That people across the South East have raised awareness of and are inspired by the values of personal best, going for gold and excellence and are offered strategies to help them to adopt these values in their own lives.
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