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Dorset Aids Memorial Schools Educational Trust


Contact	Name: Andrew Armstrong Role: Chairman,Chairman Email: damset@btinternet.com Telephone: 01202757076 Work Telephone: 05602 845747
Address	Flat 1, The Cottage, 26 Branksome Wood Road, Bournemouth
Postcode	BH4 9JZ View Map (opens a new window)
Telephone Number	01202757076
Email Address	damset@btinternet.com
Website	www.damset.co.uk (opens a new window)
Partner Type	Disability Groups •
Life Events	Children 0-16 • Young Adults 16-25 • Education • Health and wellbeing • End of Life / Dying • Disabilities
What we do	By addressing the issues of HIV awareness and prejudice/stigma surrounding those living with HIV, the project will help to integrate such people into the community and enable them to enjoy a better quality of life. The emphasis on the project being created by young people is of paramount importance. The project will: extend access to HIV/AIDS awareness education to young people and the wider community, give access to artistic expression, encourage involvement in practical activities as a means of raising awareness, increase skill and creativity by working alongside professional artists young people learn new art skills and will have creative ownership of the project, give artists working on the project experience of new fields and enable them to learn new skills and knowledge of HIV/AIDS - transferable to future work, leave students and artists with a greater awareness of the health/social consequences of HIV, Produce a significant and high quality piece of public art and to help overcome prejudice and stigma
Contribution to Partnership	DAMSET is a new charitable trust, formed to administer an innovative community arts project aimed at raising awareness of HIV/AIDS in younger people in particular, and in the community at large. Initially it covers Bournemouth and through time will extend over the county of Dorset. The project will create a memorial to the (over 200 to date) people who, in Dorset alone, have had their lives cut short by AIDS. Ceramic tiles commemorating the lives of victims will be produced by young people under the supervision of professional ceramicists. The tiles will then be assembled in a professionally supervised memorial wall in a prominent position in central Bournemouth. The real purpose of the project is to heighten awareness of HIV/AIDS in younger people. It shows how the disease is contracted, how infection can prevented, what the social consequences of the infection are and what the specific needs of those living with it are. The programme dovetails with studies in the current schools' curriculum.