Traditionally a producer & editor working in film in the USA and Turkey, Charley’s documentary credits include: The Right to Decide for Planned Parenthood NYC, The Earthquake Relief Documentary by Can Dundar & Saatch’s Turkey and the James Earl Jones Biography, for A&E, for which he won an award. While in Turkey, Charley experienced firsthand the plight of young Kurdish boys and girls living on the streets and shining shoes, between bouts of sniffing glue .
Since returning to the UK in 2016, Charley has released a book on growing up in the heart of counterculture and earned a Masters of Research in Digital Arts and Technology, while training and assessing level 3 & 4 apprentice Content Producers and Broadcast Technicians for leading UK qualifications companies, including AIM and Summit Qualifications.
This is phase one of a community project to test equipping cohorts of refugees and displaced youngsters with advanced digital, media and research skills. If successful, a second phase will be initiated, involve funding for a year-round program training a number of youngsters in a bricks and mortar site in Newquay, near the Airport in Cornwall.
The shocking facts and figures: By the end of 2022, 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. This includes: 35.3 million refugees, 62.5 million internally displaced people, 5.4 million asylum seekers and 5.2 million people in need of international protection, a majority from Venezuela.
By the end of September 2023, more than 114 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide. This marks the largest ever single-year increase in forced displacement in UNHCR’s history, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts.