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To hold 3 free creative workshop launch events and create a website linking businesses with underutilized spaces to creatives who will use these spaces to offer further cultural events and workshops.
The project aims to • Identify and work with host companies who have underutilized space which could be used for cultural and creative events. We currently have 3 commitments from host sites in Fylde, Blackpool and Chorley. • Encourage and support host companies to use creative activities to support their own ventures by providing Free or affordable spaces to makers and creatives. • Deliver 3 FREE cultural and creative experiences in underutilized spaces to communities and to build opportunities to engage communities in experiencing and learning new skills. • Improve the economic viability of local businesses by using underutilized space to improve customer engagement by providing cultural and creative experiences. • Develop new routes to market for local creatives for their exhibitions, markets, demonstrations and courses.
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The project will benefit the creative community, business community and local community by :- • Bringing together both business and creative communities to maximise their assets for mutual reward, economic development and increase provision of FREE Creative activities for local communities This will be achieved by :- • Creating networks of businesses that have space for use by local creatives to provide pop up or regular markets/selling space/workshop/demonstration space. • Linking event’s organisers to businesses/landlords to create creative events. • Increasing the sustainability of the supporting businesses by increasing their footfall, community engagement and customer loyalty. • Increase the opportunities for the local community to connect with local artisans and makers through free events (markets, demonstrations and workshops) • Improving the economic viability of local creatives by developing new routes to market.
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How will the money be spent?Total £5,852
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VolunteerHello, I am Helen Pemberton the founder Stallholderspaces.co.uk. I am also a potter/ceramic artist and offer pottery workshops from my garage. I am personally and painfully aware that small scale creatives lack both space and routes to market. Happily I am also aware that some business owners can benefit greatly from having creatives use their underutilized spaces. I would like to tackle this by linking organisations and business that have underutilized space with creatives.
I set up a pilot project in the very large and underutilized carpark of a local public house and the landlord feels that the value added to his business is invaluable. It has also encouraged 16 small scale, spare room, creatives to sell there work and I hope this goes from strength to strength. I have recently been asked by another business, that has an unused function room, to run an indoor market and workshops for the community, the room comes FOC as they have seen the benefits created at the first site. It became clear that there is a need to link similar business to other event organisers and creatives.
I wish to create a platform (website) to conntect businesses and creatives via www.stallholderspaces.co.uk. The Unique Selling Point of this website and what sets it appart from others is that it/I am actively seeking hosts, (businesses with spaces).
The intention is to create a site that links businesses that have underutilized spaces (car parks, function rooms etc) with events organisers and creatives who can use this space, with mutual benefits and I currently have the increasing support of the a Nationwide Pub Chain and hope to roll out the opportunities to more businesses and creative communities in Lancashire by developing and promoting the website.
Any additional funds raised will be used to improve the website and potentially create a CIC which will aim to create more permenant spaces for local creatives off the back of the networks created by the website.
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Helen Pemberton
Project Owner: Helen Pemberton The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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