About the Project

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded a grant of £24,900 to Sawston Village College to allow young people to research the history of cinema in Sawston.

Working in partnership with Sawston Village History Society, the Sawston Archive Group of the Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network and the Cambridge Film Trust, young people from Sawston Village College will undergo oral history training, which will equip them with interview skills. They will then speak to older members of the community about their memories of the original cinema in Sawston. These interviews will be collected in a film which will then be screened for the community in a celebratory event at the end of the project.

In addition to this, a dedicated website will also be set up where the memories collected and other project research can be stored. Young people will also work to create an artwork inspired by the project findings.

This artwork will go permanent display inside Sawston Youth Centre, a former cinema building and where the project was launched on June 19 at 3.30pm.