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17 people liked Well Street Market3 years ago
Delivered 3 December 2016
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By WESTRA
Well Street Market will be an innovative model of a community market, locals will access healthy, affordable, good quality food along with a Teenage Market, Student Makers Market and live music stage.
Well Street Market will be more than a market. It is an ambitious, exciting and bold project. We have a wonderfully diverse community who we encourage and support. We'll nurture young entrepreneurial talent by having a Teenage Market, give free economic and business training to local creatives by having a Student Makers market offering amazing design pieces unobtainable elsewhere. Integral to our market will be a live music stage where locals can book performance slots. We'll have a music mentoring program encouraging new routes into work. We are developing a community bee project and want to buy beehives and bee pollinators to make Well Street honey. We want a wireless network enabling cash free trading. We need money for the infrastructure costs to pay for our ambitious plans. We need to buy stalls, live music stage, wireless networks, bee hives , hanging baskets, Christmas lights. We need the crowd to pay for the training and staff that will help us enable to develop local talent.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
Well Street will be more than a market, transforming it back to a bustling hive of activity, by regenerating the area, making it a 'go to' destination. We want our street to be filled with amazing produce, a space that unites the community, we want hanging baskets filled with flowers, Christmas lights, it to be a street to be proud of.
This whole vision is instigated by the Well Street Traders and Residents Association we're committed to improving the life of our local neighbourhood. It's a wonderfully diverse community that we want to support and encourage. Our plan for an innovative community market will strengthen the character of Well Street. Together we want to celebrate all the energies of our community and make it an exciting place to be again, bringing economic growth economic and social benefit to the area. We will create pathways into work, support local makers and producers and be an exciting new place for the community to come together and connect and build civic pride.
Steps to get it done:
Since developing our vision of Well Street Market we've had an overwhelmingly positive response, with busy meetings and community workshops. We are supported by Hackney Council, and Regeneration Hackney and fit neatly with the council's new 'Markets strategy'
Well Street Market will be more than a market. It will be an innovative project that has our community at it's heart. We want to support and nurture our neighbourhood. Developed by the residents and traders it is key that business work together to make Well Street a destination. Our aim is for activities and events that happen on Well street Market are broad, varied and exciting, and will clearly benefit our community. The market is a weekly opportunity for the community to gather in their shared public space. This will be a market that puts the offer of healthy food at a central theme. We want the market to work collectively, be innovative and continually in conversation with our community. We ask the community to support us.
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How will the money be spent?Total £79,464
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Total £79,464
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VolunteerWell Street Traders and Residents Association aims
* To bring about a full weekly market with stalls in Well Street market
* To bring about social cohesion in the wider area of Well Street market by creating a social hub
* To tackle unemployment and poverty in the area through creating new jobs and businesses
* To improve the social life of the area through encouraging crafts, music, and other cultural and arts activities
* to reduce carbon emissions from people travelling out of the area to shop
* to make the area more bike friendly, campaigning for bike racks and bike lanes
* We have campaigned to improve the offer of the whole street and particular businesses
* initiated a design study of the street to preserve its Victorian look and encourage general improvements, including designing and paying for shop signs to be replaced.
* Run a Winter festival for the last four years involving pedestrianising the street and enabling people in the E9 area to sell goods, the community coming together to celebrate,
* To be family friendly with local musicians and dancers performing
* Supported training scheme for young people interested in setting up in business, also working Community Links and Sanctuary Housing, and currently looking for further funding from The Mayor of London's Crowdfunding Scheme
* Worked with Hackney Council to create a new environment in the street with a parking scheme and create links with the Fashion Hub on Morning Lane
* Negotiated a new strategy with Hackney Council for running a regular market from Summer 2016
* Regularly campaigned to raise the profile of the street in the media and in the locality, and through our own website, Facebook and Twitter
* Initiated moves, including fund raising, leading to the development of Well Street Area Neighbourhood Plan and setting up of the Neighbourhood Forum
The market provides opportunities for people from all sections of the community to start operating as a business with low overheads. We advise and support all business in the street who request help, and have run sessions with Hackney Business Venture (HBV) to help people with running proper accounts, selling techniques, marketing, promotion etc.
All our meetings are open to anyone from the community to come and contribute, and become involved in some way as a volunteer.
Project Owner: Kay Richardson The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Contractor: Westra The team responsible for building or installing the project.
