Youngsters in the frame after grant

9:10am Sunday 7th January 2007

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YOUNG people will have the chance to learn photography after a theatre group received a £2,000 grant.

Charity Walk Tall, based in Swanscombe High Street, bought a camera, umbrellas and lighting with the cash.

Walk Tall visits schools in Gravesham, Dartford and Bexley to hold drama workshops addressing social issues such as bullying and drug abuse.

Now it will teach children photography skills too.

The charity's project support officer and theatrical photographic expert Dawn Johnson has spent the school holidays getting acquainted with the new equipment.

She was helped by Walk Tall members Emma True, aged 14, of Mounts Road, Greenhithe, and Kat McArthur, 15.

Founder Ann Duke said: "From the start of the January term, Dawn will not only photograph Walk Tall's young stars, she will teach photography and help produce work to a professional standard."

The grant came from pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.