BEV Slaughter of Bere Ferrers is celebrating after receiving a Millennium Award of nearly £4000.
Bev is using his 'A Year in the Life of Bere Ferrers' video Millennium Award to purchase the necessary equipment to edit video footage filmed over twelve months in the West Devon village.
The finished video will be shown to villagers next January and a copy given to the TSW Archive in Plymouth.
Millennium Award winner Bev said 'Receiving this award has been a real boost to my confidence.
'I had finished filming and was trying to raise funds to purchase editing software and upgrade my computer when I first heard about the Millennium Awards from a friend.'
Bev applied for an award through Tarka Country Millennium Awards and was delighted to be accepted.
'The Millennium Awards are providing a wonderful opportunity for people to try new experiences and I would encourage anybody who wants to take an active part in their community to apply for one too,' he said.
During the next few months Bev will be editing more than ten hours of video showing life in Bere Ferrers over a twelve-month period
into a three-hour presentation for villagers.
'I got the idea of a video record of the village after seeing a presentation of life in Devon in olden days by the TSW Archive in the village hall,' Bev said.
'There is very little archive material of everyday life in villages, so, as a keen video enthusiast, I decided that my project would be to record life in our village.'
The Millennium Awards Scheme is funded by the Millennium Commission with proceeds from the National Lottery. It allows people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to apply for a small grant to put their own innovative community project into action.
Throughout the UK there are tens of thousands of Millennium Award winners who are using their ideas to make a difference to their community. The Millennium Awards Scheme was set up in 1996 and was the first scheme to give lottery grants to individuals.