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Tonight, Inside Out is at Cotmanhay in Derbyshire. Coming up in the | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
next half hour, join the queue. Fuel poverty pushes more people | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
onto the breadline. When you see people coming through | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
the door and you see how they are dressed and you realise that, | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
actually, they are used to a better lifestyle, but they have been | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
reduced to this. It's sad. Also tonight, what's it really like | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
to live somewhere with such a terrible reputation? | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
When we first came 25 years ago, we had friends in the Nottingham area | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
and they said, "Are you sure you want to go there?" And saving our | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
coral reefs. The Nottinghamshire filmmaker on a mission to promote | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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One in four households are said to be in fuel poverty, spending more | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
than 10 percent of their income on trying to stay warm. Tonight, | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
charities here in the East Midlands tell us that more people than ever | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
before are making uncomfortable decisions about whether to heat or | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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eat, and where to get the basic supplies from to survive. Food | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
parcels have become a lifeline for some you would least expect to be | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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It's lunchtime in Loughborough in a part of town that is one of the | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
most economically deprived areas of the country. 40 or 50? Nearly 50. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Twice a week, Joseph's Storehouse offers a lifeline to some of those | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
most in need. Will I do one? Yes, a bag of pasta, | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
some fruit juice, a carton of fruit juice. Just one. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Judith and her volunteers started by helping a dozen people, now they | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
hand out 25,000 food parcels a year. The number of families has doubled | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
in the last year. That has been the biggest shock to me, seeing the | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
number of families rising. And it's not the same families that come | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Everything here has been donated. Churches, | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
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members of the public, the Who will we see today? Who will you | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
see today? Gosh, everybody - families, mothers coming with | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
pushchairs, fathers coming to pick up for their children as well. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Homeless people, people recently unemployed, people out of prison, | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
we will see a sample of every body today I should think. Many are | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
known to the volunteers at the Storehouse, all have to prove they | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
claim benefits. More than ever before are in fuel poverty. Some | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
have walked miles to get here. have got one family who comes from | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Kegworth, another family that comes from Shepshed, another comes from | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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Mountsorrel. Why do you come here? Basically, I'm on low income and | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
have a lot of health issues and the extra food helps me with putting | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
extra electric on. The electrics runs away. I can't afford to keep | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
running it. I've been coming here for about three years. I was | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
embarrassed at first because I have always worked. But we couldn't | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
We are seeing more and more of the people who I would pass by in the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
street and never think they would have to come somewhere like this. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
That's a very humbling thing to have to come here. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Bruce had a long career as an entertainer. Now he is a full-time | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
carer. It's really been circumstances for me. My daughter | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
has special needs, and my wife has contracted an illness. I've had to | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
rely on income support, so it's been very helpful to me. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
This might not look a lot, but for some people, it really does make | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
the difference between having something to eat or not, or having | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
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Alyson and her husband Fred both have serious health problems and | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
live on benefits at a council house in Woodhouse Eaves. She was an | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
office assistant, he was an engineer. We are definitely living | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
in fuel poverty. We regularly spend 20 percent of our income on gas and | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
electric. That's not running it 24 hours a day, that's keeping it to a | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
minimum. Three years ago, they spent around �40 a week on gas and | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
electricity. Now that has almost doubled. Last year, when it was | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
really cold, I was going to bed in a hat and scarf because there was | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
ice on the inside of her bedroom window. It was terrible. It makes | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
you feel like you're not a part of society. The things we get from | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Joseph's Storehouse now means that we're not having to spend that | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
extra money buying those bits. Having that little bit extra can | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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Things in here are the basics. Pasta, jars of coffee that some | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
people might think of as a luxury, but it's something people really | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
like. On the outskirts of Leicester, | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
another charity is making good use of surplus stocks that | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
manufacturers and the big supermarkets cannot shift and are | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
happy to pass on. It's still perfectly good quality food which | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
is fit for human consumption. Which is our basic criteria. All this | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
would have ended up in landfill. Some of the food we saw in | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
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Three years ago, FareShare Leicester distributed 40 tonnes of | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
food. Now that amount has trebled. Over the last four quarters, we | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
have distributed over 120 tonnes of food. If you think of the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
articulated lorries that we see on our roads each day, that is | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
equivalent to filling six of those completely. For many people, there | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
is still denial of the extent of poverty and food poverty in this | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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At Age UK's flagship building in Leicester, it is lunchtime too. The | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
food is not in short supply, but for many it is the warmth that | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
tempts them in. You will get people here from first thing in the | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
morning looking for a hot breakfast and a cup of tea. They may go into | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
town for some shopping and come back again for their lunch. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
aware are you that some of the people are coming here to keep | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
warm? You get to know your regulars and the people that come here for | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
different reasons. Looking around the room, I would suggest that | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
there are an increasing number of those that are coming into us to | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
stay warm so that they can keep their houses warm at night rather | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
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As well as a hot meal, Clarence House serves up support, activities | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
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and friendship to some of the most Every day, six days a week, 1,000 | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
people come through the doors. often ring our offices very | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
distraught, very worried that they are not going to be able to pay | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
their bills. As they are talking through the problem, they are also | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
talking about the effect it is having on their lives. They are | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
cutting back on food, not keeping the house nice and warm to the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
level of warmth it should be at. They are not going out any more, | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
socialising, and it is helping affecting their health and well- | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
being. How much of a worry is that to you? It is a big worry because I | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
am on the basic pension. How do you manage to keep warm? I have to keep | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
one room warm. And you stay in that room? Most of the time, yes. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Hypothermia is a real problem. is yes. If some of those people go | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
into hospital, the sad truth is, All the places I have seen rely on | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
goodwill and generosity. Much of the help is volunteered and the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
food donated. There is little doubt that without it, life would be even | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
worse for those who are already finding it tough enough. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
clients of our member groups are very honest to say that if it was | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
not for the food from FareShare, their cupboards would be empty, | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
they just do not know where they would get their next meal from. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
When they say they do food parcels for the poor, we come into that | :09:55. | :10:04. | |
category. It is kind of shaming to have to admit that you are poor. | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
FareShare Leicester and Joseph's Storehouse in Loughborough plan to | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
expand to meet demand. I have been absolutely amazed at how generosity | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
has increased as times have toughened up. Even if somebody just | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
brings along a bag with a few tins in it, it will make a difference in | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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Thanks to everyone who spoke so openly about how fuel poverty | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
affects them. Now we are in Cotmanhay in Derbyshire because, | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
frankly, it has a poor reputation and we wanted to discover what it | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
is like living in a place that has been branded an undesireable area. | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
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We have been finding out what Reputations are easily achieved, | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
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Terrible place. It has got quite a When we first came 25 years ago, we | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
had friends in the Nottingham area who said, "Are you sure you want to | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
This is the gateway to Cotmanhay. You don't pass through, it's a | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
dead-end. Check through the archives and the only time the BBC | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
have come to film here has been to report bad news. Usually crime, | :11:44. | :11:53. | |
arson and drug abuse. But also tragedy. A child from here lost a | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
family in a ferry disaster in the 1980s, a man died in a gas | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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explosion in the '90s. Cotmanhay Cotmanhay used to be a village, | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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then the coal mines came. They were gentlemen miners. I worked at the | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
collieries and if ever ladies was there and the men was coming off | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
shift or going on, there'd always be one of the miners shout, "Mind | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
your careful words." And then there was the iron works. Homes were | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
built for the workers. They still call this the new estate. Hopewell | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
Farm was built in 1946. We've got a frequent bus service here. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Professor Irene Hardill is one outsider who knows Cotmanhay well. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
She's written about the community here. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
There was a crescent of shops serving this particular community, | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
but by 2004, all the shops were abandoned. This particular housing | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
estate has got no facilities The people here had resisted | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
industrial decline. They lost. Today, there is no big employer. It | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
is the most deprived place in Derbyshire. Well, it's a feeling of | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
being forgotten. No facilities here. Obviously, things have been put | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
into the community, we've got Sure Start. But when it comes to | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
services, there is a remarkable lack of them. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
But the professor says the people in Cotmanhay make a big difference. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
You do not have to be here long to realise a lot is going on. We | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
stumbled across the Bright Street laundry, the only laundry in town. | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
A lot of our clients are in their 80s or 90s. We have had them, | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
thankfully, at 100 years old. There aren't the launderettes any more, | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
but if there were the launderettes, the elderly haven't got the people | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
to say, "Could you take this washing and have it done for me?" | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
The fact that we do the delivery service, we probably are the only | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
people that they see during the day. Trevor, the driver, might be the | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
only person they see. We are a It's part of a charity called | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Community Concern Erewash set up 20 years ago during a recession to | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
help people who may be housebound or struggle to get around. Struggle | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
to do things most of us take for granted. They paint all the fences, | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
which I used to do myself, gravelled all the garden. They come | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
and do my shrubs up. It's the simplest things now. I can't get | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
down on my hands and knees, the same as I used to. It annoys me | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
because I can't get down and do my garden. I had a new carpet last | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
year. What was I going to do, what about the furniture? They'll do it. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
They installed extra smoke alarms for me. I just rang up and it was | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
What they are doing is keeping people in their homes and out of | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
care. You give something to those that may be lonely. | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
This is a recruiting session for new volunteers to give their time | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
to people in Thanks to everyone who spoke so openly about how fuel | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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There is no shortage of willing helpers. They already have more | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
than 60. You just want to give your time. We all do. I think if you | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
just look after number one, it's a very selfish attitude. They also | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
provide a chance to get work experience and give a feeling of | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
being involved. And this. That's good, Andrew. Is that your front | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
door? That is brilliant. I do a painting class. Andrew paints their | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Christmas cards and helps in the office. Mark helps out with the | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
laundry deliveries. I will work out the order. The numbers are all down | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
there, so you take charge. helping out delivering laundry, | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
taking it round for customers. I really enjoy it. It is nice to be | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
out visiting. We are going to keep going and we will keep delivering | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
the service to the people who need it. This is the annual meeting of | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Community Concern Erewash. They hope it will not be the last, but | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
the funding they rely on has become exceptionally difficult to get. | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
majority of our funds are from putting in funding applications to | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
grant funders, not from public authorities. That is the issue for | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
us. We are competing against other organisations to go for the same | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
pot of money, but there is more of us trying to get it. I don't know | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
what we would do if we were to close. A lot of people would suffer. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Without this organisation, the bottom line would be that there | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
would not be a voluntary service and 65 people would be lost in this | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
area. It frightens me to death. It frightens me now. Because I can't | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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do things. The weekly luncheon club is | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
something else they organise. A welcome roast. It is a social thing | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
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as well. I've been coming since a year at Easter. It's important | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
because people are vulnerable and a lot of them are lonely. If they do | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
not come out to us, they may not see anybody for a week. The only | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
people they see are when they come here. For those who can't get out, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
it is delivered. We are here to help people. Through this recession, | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
we will still be here, by hook or by crook. From what might look as a | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
place that's been abandoned, there is also a great deal of self- | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
reliance. In other words, the big society is happening. Bottom-up | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
self-help before the big society was being talked about. Venture to | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
the foot of the hill and another surprise. A community farm in a pub | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
car park. All I know is it all started when my boss started | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
hatching chickens and ducks. She's got a few ducks. Totally voluntary. | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
Totally community led. Not a formal But you can't get away from the | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
dereliction and empty spaces left by demolition. The lack of anything | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
for young people is stark. There's nothing for them. I think that's | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
why they... Even the community centre. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
There is ambition. They want to start a children's football team if | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
they can get the funds. You suspect, if there is any community where the | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
people will make something happen, it is here. We want people to be | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
reconnected. We want people in Cotmanhay to feel that they matter. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
We have got to know everyone here. Wherever we go, they always stop | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
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and talk to you. People do not want to live anywhere else. People are | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
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friendly and they will help you. Anybody will help you. The people | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
of Cotmanhay proving you can't judge a place by its reputation. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Now when you hear about disappearing coral reefs on the | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
other side of the world, it's easy to think that there is little we | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
can do to make a difference. But one woman felt she had to and what | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
she did has had an impact from Nottinghamshire all the way to Fiji. | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
Anne Davies meets an inspirational conservationist determined to save | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
our oceans. We've had the Ice Age, the Iron Age and the Bronze Age. | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
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Plastic is polluting our planet and I had an opportunity of sitting at | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
the United Nations Indigenous Peoples Permanent Forum. It was my | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
first exposure at 18 to serious human rights abuses and human | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
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But I didn't know things were that bad to that extent. I was angry | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
because I'd got this idea that this world was actually OK. And it is OK, | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
but it also isn't. It's a myth. You have to want to look below the myth | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
and once I did, you can never go back. | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
Nottinghamshire film maker Emma Robens was so affected by the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
plight of so many indigenous peoples and the plight of the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
planet that she spent seven years on Fiji working with the locals and | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
making films, including the award- winning documentary the Coral | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
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Gardener which has and is, still, being shown, across the world. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
The key is that you use that time and that process as a way of | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
creating awareness in the most inspiring way possible. I think | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
that's where some of the best But it doesn't stop there. Emma has | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
brought her passion about the environment back home, back to the | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
East Midlands. Which is why we find ourselves here in the middle of an | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
eco-farm in the beautiful Nottinghamshire countryside. And | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
it's where it's all very much about Now in partnership with Farm Eco in | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Nottinghamshire, she has begun a new initiative, a festival called | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
SELF. Everybody put your hand in there and touch it. It aims to show | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
local schoolchildren how to value the natural resources we have | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
through a day of unusual and fun activities. | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
What we do on the land is affecting the ocean. Just because we can't | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
see underneath it, we live in this world where we only look at what we | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
can see. So we have to think about things we can't see. And that is | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
what they do here. They learn about all the things they don't normally | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
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see and connect with them. What do we breathe in the air that's all | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
around us? Oxygen. What do you think you have found out about the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
environment? That it is quite important that you look after it | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
because it helps us. What have you got there? A tree trunk. For fuel. | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
You've got fuel. Last year, about 500 children came | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
to SELF. It stands for Sustainable Environmental Living for the Future. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
That concept is Emma's passion and she has managed to pass it on to | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
the kids. I had a teacher say to me the other day, "Emma, you have | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
engaged the unengageable." I thought that was quite funny! | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
Whether it is true or not, I don't Wow, look at this. Look at these | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
stones. I think these are peace stones. I'll have to sit in on this | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
one. Think about running through the fields in beautiful sunshine. | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Wrap yourself in your favourite blanket and sit in your favourite | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
chair and that wonderful red makes you feel loved. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
As well as conservation, part of the SELF festival is to help the | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
children find their inner selves. The peace tent where they created | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
peace stones for school gardens helps them challenge their stresses | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
and anxiety. Emma says, teach the kids to care about themselves and | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
each other and then they'll care Emma has even managed to inspire a | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
young designer to love coral. her the other day and she was, like, | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
"I wasn't quite sure where I was going with this," but she said, | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
"after meeting you, you're so passionate, so mad about it, I just | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
feel on fire." I was like, "Great! Are you going to join us then?" | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
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"Yes!" That's when you inspire people and they do what they do. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
From the scarves, money goes back to coral conservation. In Fiji, | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
Emma has joined forces with the eminent scientist and | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
conservationist Dr Austin Bowden- Kerby. His project, Corals For | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
Conservation, will hopefully help save the corals, not just in Fiji, | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
but across the world. It's her film, the Coral Gardener | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
that's a big part of that message. If the corals are gone, the fish | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
have nowhere. If you take all these trees out, where will the birds | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
live? Birds need trees. Fish need corals. | :26:12. | :26:21. | |
Local people will grow new corals on special tables on the ocean bed. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
They can then be used to replenish the dying reefs and also can then | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
be harvested and exported for the vast aquarium trade with the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
profits going back to the local coral farmers. I was educated | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
through the indigenous people and the people that I helped about the | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
importance of sustainable livelihoods and the reconnection of | :26:36. | :26:44. | |
nature to business. By the time I met Austin in Fiji, I saw his | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
project and I saw the potential in The first batch of this sustainable | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
coral has just been brought over to the UK. A fantastic achievement and | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
something that Emma has been working towards for years. I think | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
the most exciting part of the coral gardening project is the fact that | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
it is a new profession. You have a gardener that gardens your land, | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
why don't you have a gardener that looks after your sea? With aquarium | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
hobbyists that have these wonderful tanks in their houses that take | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
great pleasure from looking at coral and fish in their front room, | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
for them to know that that coral has been grown by someone on the | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
other side of the planet and that it has contributed to their lives, | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
it is a wonderful connection. With 7 billion human beings on a | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
planet that is made up of 70 percent water, it is no surprise | :27:38. | :27:48. | |
that our very existence impacts hugely on the ocean. What else can | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
we do to not use so much plastic? How realistic is that children who | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
live in landlocked cities will make sure that there is a future for our | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
ocean wildlife? I was a bit shocked when I saw a movie with all the | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
plastic bottles in the water and then the whales were eating them. | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
think we should stop putting plastic in the water. All projects | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
that run, wherever they are, if you can inspire the individual to take | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
it on board and you don't have to do follow-ups and you don't have to | :28:19. | :28:29. | |
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chase them, then you have achieved Well, Emma is filming in Fiji at | :28:41. | :28:44. |