Congratulations to this year’s winner!
Hertfordshire’s Learning Disability Personality of the Year Award 2015
Thank you to all of our partners and friends who made the Rumble Awards 2015 possible
in partnership with 
Organisations involved in the project:
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Other partners
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Hightown Praetorian Church Housing Association have offered a venue, which Thera are using for their awards, and we are are using for the Main Awards
With amazing, bespoke trophies made by Wodewose, in consultation with the Pioneer Spirits
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Wacky Wheels St Albans, young adults with physical disabilities and/or learning disabilities, are joining our #Proud2BARumble campaign
- St Albans Community Fire Station is also joining the campaign, and has offered their community venue for Rumble rehearsals (event planning, music, art)
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We are working with St Albans Art Sport and Health team (SAASH) and St Albans District Council to deliver a Rumbles workshop at the St Albans festival.
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We will have a stage at the market and our Rumble Choir (including people from all the participating organisations)will join us
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XC Youth Space is letting us use their rehearsal space at Jarman Park Hemel Hempstead to practice our songs
XC Music and Media Studio, Hemel Hempstead
Materials, accessibility advice
Toni Vyse joined the project with the Hemel Campaigners to help add their own thoughts and suggestions, review the training materials, and make sure they are accessible.
The training information pack we have developed includes session plans, templates, advice and activities
The presentation
We delivered the training for the presentation day, together with 2 representatives from Hemel Campaigners. We explained the project, used film, music, drama and gave participants the opportunity to try out a number of resources and materials. We presented the materials that each organisation will have on their USB sticks. We explored values and beliefs around disabilities, learned the new song and started the #Proud2BARumble campaign
Song
We have created a Rumbles song – the group have chosen ‘Proud to be a Rumble’ as the theme this year – and the song ‘Proud’ has been created with support from Abdul Conteh, who has been facilitating African drumming in our song-writing sessions
Session support for organisations
Neil Hoskin, Expert by experience for the Integrated Community Support Commissioning Team, Health & Community Services Hertfordshire County Council and winner of last year’s ‘Leading Light’ Award, has agreed to be involved, and he, the Hemel Campaigners and members of The Pioneer Spirits/Rumbles have made themselves available for advice and to call-in to organisations to support if and where needed
The Rumble Awards and the #Proud2BARumble song
We delivered feedback on Step 1 of the project and ran a #Proud2BARumble workshop to feed into the song, which everyone then performed, with drumming with Abdul Conteh of Herts Drum Circle, at our presentation for the Learning Disability Partnership Board (Hertfordshire)
