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Starting Blocks: January - March 2012
for pre-start and new creative businesses in North Kirklees
If you are either considering turning your creative skills into
a business opportunity or are just starting up a new business
venture, you will find Starting Blocks invaluable.
Broaden your understanding of basic business skills and
self-employment issues and create the essential survival toolkit
to help you avoid the pitfalls and survive and thrive.
Starting Blocks offers an intense series of practical
sessions specifically aimed at people just starting up in or new
to business in the creative sector in North Kirklees, focusing
on business planning, financial control, marketing, time
management and sales.
To take part in Starting Blocks you must have finished in
full-time education, be considering or in the process of
starting a creative business (or becoming self-employed), and be
living and/or running your business in North Kirklees. Starting
Blocks is free of charge but we expect you to you show your
commitment by paying a small returnable deposit and attending
all of the sessions where possible.
For more information or an informal chat contact Loca at
loca.admin@loca.co.uk |
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BOOST
New design work at
Thornhill Lees LICC,
Dewsbury
Thornhill Lees LICC
got a BOOST at a recent celebration event when the building was filled with local people who came to
celebrate the LICC’s third birthday and the unveiling of the new
look building. Impossible Theatre transformed part of the
building with a colour and light video projection showing design
work made by local high school students; colourful bunting made
by children and parents from the infant school was used to
decorate the streets of Thornhill Lees; and children made
birthday cards and won prizes for their high scores in the BOOST
challenge activities. The design work created by artist Lesley
Fallais was a hit with visitors who made comments such as, “It
looks fabulous and really stands out” and, “It really is a
‘wow’!”.
During the event
several people who had never been to the building before signed
up for LICC services. Staff say the project has been a great
way for them to reach more people and raise awareness of the
LICC.
“BOOST has really been a
catalyst to get more involved in projects in the community; it’s
really BOOSTed our profile in Thornhill Lees” (LIC Customer
Services Manager).
Take a look at some
of the photos of the event and the new design work:
Outside at the Event
Impossible Theatre's
colour and light projection
Designs and signage outside the building
Thornhill Lees Library Information & Children’s Centre, 53
Brewery Lane, Dewsbury. Tel: 01924 324181
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Emotional Wellbeing projects deliver real impacts
Last year Loca’s partnerships with NHS
Kirklees and CapeUK enabled us to continue
growing the work which we have been delivering in Kirklees
schools for over 5 years, focused on using creative
approaches to support children’s social and emotional
development.
We were commissioned
to deliver 10 primary school projects, all of which entailed
artists working with small, targeted groups of children under a
Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing banner around themes such
as transition, aspiration, identity and relationships. A
round-up of all the evaluation material gathered shows that
across all ten schools benefits were widely experienced by
children and observed by staff in a range of areas related to
children’s confidence, self-esteem, self-belief, resourcefulness
and positive self-image. All ten projects generated ‘Striking’ or ‘Plenty of’ evidence
of:
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Children being more
confident in trying new experiences out of their normal
comfort zone
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Children gaining personal
tools, attitudes or insights which positively influenced their
feelings about change and/or will directly help them to cope
well with transition and change
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Positive effects on children’s communication with and
relationships with others (plus in 8 of 10 schools evidence of
children having gained a broader vocabulary for communicating
views and ideas and increased confidence in communicating
ideas)
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Children
enjoying positive experiences of group work and relationships
(and in 8 of 10 schools evidence
that for at least some children this led to shifts in
behaviour, attitudes and/or self-image
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Children’s increased engagement with learning – a new or
stronger interest, enthusiasm or ‘I can’ attitude (and in 8 of
10 schools that translated for some children into greater
engagement with learning in the classroom)
In addition, nine
of the ten projects generated 'Striking' or 'Plenty of' evidence
of:
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Children enjoying feelings of pride from experiencing a sense
of achievement and recognition
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Children being enabled to find different ways of expressing
their feelings and/or understanding their behaviour
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Children having more confidence in their own creative/arts
abilities and skills
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Children discovering creative interests and talents in ways
which have changed or raised aspirations or may open up new
options
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Milnsbridge public realm project - a sneak preview
Here’s a sneak
preview of some of the design details of
David
Mayne’s work for the Milnsbridge street furniture
scheme. The use of repeat pattern draws inspiration from the
textile heritage of Milnsbridge and the images show links
between the work David did with local young people and his own
final designs. The street furniture is now in production with
work on site starting in the new year.
David
was
commissioned by Loca
to work on the project in
Milnsbridge, alongside
the Council’s Regeneration
Development Service which is undertaking some environmental and
streetscape improvements. Loca’s input has focussed on a
seating area in the centre of the village that is in need of
upgrading and access improvements, a scheme which it was decided
should involve a collaboration between one the Council’s
landscape architects and an artist with public art credentials.
David worked with school and youth groups to
involve local young people in thinking about their village
centre and its heritage and in contributing design ideas for the
seating and street furniture produced by David.
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