Studley on the Map

An update to our valued project supporters and contributors, The Crowdfunding Project team met for what we hope was the final time last night to finally sign off the artwork, locations and content for Studley’s new information boards and signage! The signage aspect of the Enjoyably Studley project has been the most challenging of all but we wanted to make sure every detail was perfect. Once our final amends have been completed, our suppliers will begin the manufacture and installation is hoped to take place by the end of the summer! We will keep you posted! Thank you to everyone for your support and enthusiasm. The Enjoyably Studley Volunteers x

We have been blown away by the support and interest in the new Studley website, thank you to everyone who has submitted an entry so far. Now it is time for the project to say THANK YOU to the generous Studley businesses who backed our crowdfunding campaign. If you contributed to the crowdfund and you represent or own a business that is based in Studley, or is within 5 miles of Studley we would like to offer your business a FREE enhanced listing on the new Enjoyably Studley website for the first 12 months (01.01.19 - 31.12.19). An enhanced listing includes your business name, and contact details, up to 250 words of copy, your logo and up to 6 images that relate to your business. In order to claim your free enhanced listing please email [email protected] and we will forward the link to upload your copy. We will then ask you to email your logo and images to us directly. The enhanced business listing is in addition to your fee standard business listing. Details on how to purchase an enhanced listing will follow shortly. The purpose of the Enjoyably Studley website is to promote Studley as a destination to visit, spend time and shop. Therefore the site will focus on Studley businesses, activities, clubs and societies. Many thanks again for your support, the success of this project is thanks to you! The Studley on the Map Project Steering Group.

Can you believe it has been a year since we launched our crowdfunding campaign? After successfully hitting our fundraising target in April, the delivery stage of the Studley on the Map project is at the 6 month point....and we have lots to tell you! We are busily working on developing the new website for Studley. We are looking forward to launching this exciting website but first we need your help in gathering data from Studley's many businesses and community groups to populate the pages! Very soon we will be emailing out a link to an online data capture form. Emails will be sent to Studley businesses and Community Groups and the data submitted will be used to build each listing on the website. All businesses in the village will be offered a free standard entry on the website and if you are a business who contributed to funding the project, you will automatically be offered an 'enhanced' listing for your business. Other businesses will be invited to pay for an enhanced listing (which will be in addition to their free standard listing) at an introductory rate of £50.00 for 12 months. All payments will be paid directly into the project fund to contribute to the long term maintenance of the website and signs. Community group listings are all free and will invite you to promote your group activities to the wider community (great news if you don't have a dedicated website!). The attached images give a sneaky peek into the look and style of our new Studley 'brand' which we hope you will love as much as we do! Please look out for your data capture email and help us to spread the word about the website wherever you can. It will only be as good as the information that is on there! More information on the signage element of the project to come soon... Thank you for your continued support. The Studley on the Map Project Steering Group

Happy Saturday Everyone! We would like to say a BIG thank you to the 98 people who took time out to complete the recent online survey. The responses were really interesting, positive and insightful. We’ll do a separate update with a summary of answers soon. The answers will also be used to help create themes and ideas for how we market and promote Studley through the delivery of the project - REMEMBER we are not just buying ‘some signposts and a website’, we have to make these ‘things’ tell a story about our fantastic village - a positive story that will help Studley become a place that more people choose to hang out in, visit and enjoy.... Another fantastic outcome of the survey was that more than 30 people volunteered their time to take part in the themed working groups that are being organised to help create the content for the signs and website! On Thursday evening (see the picture below) we invited all volunteers to join the project steering group at the Studley Sports & Social Club to talk about the vision for and the delivery of the project. Thank you to those who came along. For those who couldn’t, we will be in touch about your chosen group soon. We also drew the winners of our prize draw for everyone who completed the survey.... CONGRATULATIONS to: Jennifer Rogers who wins a choice of Reiki healing session/massage donated by ILLUMI Hair and Beauty And Gail Smith who wins an MOT which was donated by DC Edginton & Sons! So WHAT’S NEXT? Since we hit target, the project steering group have been meeting regularly and have already made great progress. We have been preparing the tendering processes for the signage project and the website... these will be rolled out very soon and we will issue an update shortly. We are also still finalising pledge collections from Go Cardless and PayPal. We bank with TSB and if you are a customer of theirs, you will appreciate the recent access issues we have faced there! 🤦‍♀️ We’re only 8 weeks into our 12 month delivery phase and we are feeling positive and excited about what’s to come! Thanks for reading 🙌😊

Today is deadline day and guess what?! We only went and did it! We hit our fundraising target, and then we exceeded it!! This proves that Studley really is a community to be proud of, and we want to thank every single person who has believed, supported, taken part and pledged - you have all made a difference to Studley’s future. Spacehive will shortly be collecting your pledges so please look out for that over the next few days. The project steering committee will then put the wheels in motion for stage 2 - DELIVERY! Lots of preparation has been going on behind the scenes for the past 12 weeks and we will update everyone on progress and next steps very soon. In the meantime THANK YOU again, and Happy Easter x The Studley on the Map Project Steering Group x