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 Britain in Bloom
Our Down's Syndrome Week shows several different and moving accounts of living and succeeding with this disability. And this month's Take Action Sunday on 9 September focuses on young people.
Award winners include the projects and people profiled in The Ashden Awards and The International Ashden Awards. And we premiere Between a Rap and a Hard Place, the third London Urban Collective which celebrates and rewards young musicians.
3 - 9 Sept - Down's Syndrome Week & Take Action Sunday
 Abnormally Funny People
A group of actors with learning disabilities explore their lives and how they were laughed at during their childhood years. Now they use stage comedy to poke fun at attitudes towards learning disabilities.
Ups Not Down's - UK Premiere - Thurs 6 Sep @ 7.30pm
Joe was born with Down's Syndrome five years ago. At first, his family worried about how they would cope. In this heart-warming film, they answer the question, ‘Has it really been that hard?’ and tell us about life with Joe.
Abnormally Funny People - Sat 8 Sep @ 11pm
Another showing of this brilliantly funny and hard hitting film which gives an insight into the highs and lows of a group of disabled stand-up comedians as they take the summer's premiere comedy event, The Edinburgh Festival, by storm. more...
 Tommy's Story
Follow budding actor, Tommy Jessop, as he lands his first big TV break in BBC One's Holby City.
The film, made by Tommy’s brother William, provides a revealing portrait of a young actor. more ...
Take Action Sunday - Young People - 9 Sep
One Sunday a month we dedicate a day of programming to give viewers the chance to learn about issues that may affect them, inspiring them to take action and get involved. This month, ‘Take Action Sunday’ focuses on young people, and include:
Scouts Centennial Celebrations - Sun 9 Sep @ 8pm
Celebrating 100 years of scouting, the Channel will show the highlights from this summer’s 21st World Scout Jamboree. The “One World, One Promise” Jamboree united 40,000 Scouts from over 200 countries, making it the largest youth event to be staged anywhere in the world. 2007 saw its return to the home of Scouting on Brownsea Island, Dorset.
 Summit about the Boy
The experiences of Lee McConville - a 22 year old from a deprived UK inner city area - being mentored by Phillip Webster, the political editor of The Times, and the story of their journey together at the G8 Summit in Germany earlier this year. more ...
10 - 16 Sep
Giving Nation Challenge
This three-part film follows three schools taking part in the Giving Nation Challenge 2007 – a competition where students have just five weeks to identify a local social problem they think should be tackled, then set up a social enterprise – a business benefiting their community – to solve it. more ...
 GNC - The Idea
The Challenge kicks off with students put their business acumen to the test and coming up with the best idea to represent their school. They begin by researching local needs, identifying suppliers and potential customers and honing the idea.
Programme 2 - The Business - Wed 12 Sep @ 7pm
With each school's project chosen, they set about refining their idea, building their teams and creating and marketing their projects. But no business ever runs completely smoothly ... and the students' resolve and commitment is fully tested.
Programme 3 - The Verdict - Fri 14 Sep @ 7pm
The schools launch their projects: in Derbyshire, the Highfields School team is selling mugs to fund cleaning up Matlock; in West London, the team at Phoenix High School holds their first open mic session for the local youth; and at Wilmington Enterprise College in Kent, the ‘Generations’ team takes orders for their CD Rom on computer learning for elderly people. Which of them will be the overall winner? There’s only one way to find out…
The Ashden Awards - UK Premiere - Fri 14 Sep @ 8pm
The Ashden Awards promote excellent local sustainable energy solutions in the UK and the developing world (International Awards). Broadcast on the Channel for the third year running, the event attracted pioneers creating lasting solutions to climate change.
17 - 23 Sep
The International Ashden Awards - Fri 21 @ 8pm
These awards recognise the ‘energy heroes’ of the developing world. The five award winners use local renewable energy to reduce poverty, improve people’s health, wellbeing and economic prospects, while at the same time tackling climate change and other environmental threats, notably deforestation. Nations represented in the 2007 Awards include China, Laos, Bangladesh, India and Tanzania.
 Between a Rap and a Hard Place
The story of London Urban Collective (LUC) – a unique youth music project in which thirty young people are chosen from auditions across London to write, record and promote their own album for independent release, mentored by industry professionals – including Shola Ama. Now in its third year, LUC provides a major platform for emerging new UK talent.
24 - 30 Sep
Britain in Bloom - UK Premiere - Fri 28 Sep @ 9pm
Go behind the scenes of two schemes competing in this year's Britain in Bloom competition, the larges campaign of its kind in Europe and organised by the Royal Horticultural Society. The programme follows two communities taking part in this year’s competition:
Beeston is a finalist in the Urban Community category. In this inner city neighbourhood, a cross-section of the local community is working to transform it. A dedicated band of locals want to inject green inspiration into their cityscape.
Rugby is a finalist in the Small City / Large Town category. In the true spirit of ‘community’, council workers and residents alike are mucking in to make Rugby a better place. Some unusual projects are being set up to get one over the competition, including a ‘storytelling tree’ with characters from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ carved into it, in homage to Lewis Carroll who attended Rugby School.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 September 2007 )
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