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</div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><b><font size="5" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Press release <span> </span><img border="0" width="100" height="100" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CB7816.8ADA5850"> <span> </span><img border="0" width="100" height="100" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CB7816.8ADA5850"></span></font></b></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:24px"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:Arial">For immediate release (Tuesday, November 3rd)</span></font></div>
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OF DREAMS SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEOPLES MILLIONS</b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:24px">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:22.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">Fablevision
has beat<span style="color:#001269">en </span> off fierce competition
to be in the running for a £45,000 prize pot from the Big Lottery’s Fund’s
Peoples Millions.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"></span></p>
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<div><div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:24px"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">Voyage of Dreams</span><span lang="EN-US"> is different and is also about making a
difference - to the lives of countless young people and others across Scotland.</span></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:24px">
<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ssd0Mf0UMI&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ssd0Mf0UMI&feature=player_embedded#</a>!</span></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><span style="font-size:large">THIS IS YOUR ONE AND ONLY CHANCE TO VOTE FOR IT AND
MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Voyage
of Dreams</b></span><span lang="EN-US"> involves
a group of young people from differently disadvantaged backgrounds and places
across Scotland coming together, to learn how to work, live and develop their
skills – both practical and personal. It is about sailing, the sea, stories,
journeys, histories and the future.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sailing
around Scotland from the West Coast to the East Coast in the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">East
End Endeavour, t</span><span lang="EN-US">hey
will connect people and places; rural settlements and urban communities. Their
journey will involve facing trying situations and being tested. How will <i>YOU</i></span><span lang="EN-US"> rise to the challenge of being
responsible for yourself and others? Would <i>YOU</i></span><span lang="EN-US"> know the importance of personal safety and
looking after the safety of others? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">These young
people (and they could be <i>YOUR</i></span><span lang="EN-US"> young people) will record their experiences, the challenges they face,
the people and stories they engage with. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Voyage
of Dreams</b></span><span lang="EN-US"> is about
young people developing confidence, skills, and ways of communicating with
other people. It is about achievement, learning how to work in adversity -<span> </span>both on your own and as part of a team.
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The stories
gathered from <b>Voyage of Dreams</b></span><span lang="EN-US"> will speak to Scotland in these turbulent and stormy times via video
diaries, music, poetry and films. They will be stories of optimism, opportunity
and making a real contribution through the connections they make sailing round
Scotland, the ports and places they call into, and the stories they learn, tell
and collect.<span> </span>These will be tales
of new ways of doing things - hope and change. Some of the young people who
have taken part in our three test sailings have already attested to this with
comments like:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">Everyone
is equal and you learn more by listening to others.’</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">‘It
is great because you are made to notice things that are always happening’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Others
talked of the importance of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">‘self-development’</span><span lang="EN-US">, ‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">of learning to become more
confident</span><span lang="EN-US">’ and finding
out how to act in demanding circumstances and not </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">‘lose the
plot’.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">Notes to the editor</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The project
– A Voyage of Dreams is undertaken by </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">Fablevision and A Scottish Wave
of Change</span><span lang="EN-US">. Fablevision
is a Govan based arts charity with an unparalled record of achievement at a
local, national and international level of delivering projects and work of lasting
change. A Scottish Wave of Change is a project using stories to explore the
future of a Scotland people wish to see – testing models of how they would like
to bring it about. In association with Fablevision, A Scottish Wave of Change
will produce a number of resources including the stories gathered during Voyage
of Dreams.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold"">East End Endeavour</span><span lang="EN-US"> is a sail-training vessel, which, in a
previous existence was used for Glasgow City Council’s Youth Opportunities
Programme in the 1980s, when current skipper Sam Paterson first sailed on her
as a youth trainee. She has a long history transforming the lives of young
people from a wide range of backgrounds and Sam, inspired by his own
experience, is determined to ensure she continues to do that important job. </span></p>
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