Putley Church in Herefordshire successfully applied for a National Lottery small heritage grant (£3-10k) in 2023. The project involved installing an Info Point in the church to share both past and living history with visitors.
Wildfi ran an Info Point familiarisation and storytelling workshop for a small group of volunteers who used their new skills to build an experience that visitors to the church can access on their phone. A self-guided tour is accompanied by wedding photos and accompanying stories, plus other personal recollections linking the church and the community.
Be careful – before you know it, you’ll be hooked!
I passed Wildfi’s very informal ‘technical awareness test’ ahead of the others in our group and was therefore designated the ‘man to support the tour’ once it was up and running. I was intending that I would maintain the Putley Church Tour once Wildfi had got it all working and installed. But it didn’t happen like that – WildFi’s seductive CMS (Content Management System) reeled me in much earlier.
Wildfi created the structure of the tour but we were late supplying some audio clips and some photographs. I was about to attach them to an email to Wildfi along with an explanation of how we wanted them added to the tour when, having read the extremely well written “Info Point Getting Started Guide”, it occurred to me that instead of sending the content to WildFi, I could actually populate the Media section of the tour directly.
I started with an image. This proved to be easy to do and buoyed with this success I then tried adding that image to one of the tour pages. This proved to be easy too and it wasn’t long before I’d added text, audio and video and had played with Jigsaws and Images which you could rub away to reveal other images beneath. I was no longer maintaining the tour but actually creating it and enjoying the experience.
In summary, the CMS is extremely easy to use and impressively bug-free. Changes and additions can be made very quickly and the whole tour can be backed up with a couple of key presses.
I don’t want WildFi to publish the above. Currently the rest of the group think I am a genius!
Eric Porter, Putley Church PCC Treasurer
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