5,238 youngsters in Bolton do not have English as their mother tongue – Dept of Education Bolton International Writing Project BIWP, celebrates the diversity of languages spoken in the town and promotes cross-
cultural links between speakers of different languages without reference to faith, gender, age or experience. It reaches out to new arrivals, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and anyone whose first language is not English. James Hartnell, Chair of BIWP, spoke to us recently about a workshop last year, part of the Bolton Poetry Festival, which laid the foundation for development of further, varied, events.The workshop, titled’Found in Translation’
comprised teachers and others whose English was very good and who understood the difficulties sometimes encountered in translation.