news and events at
ImagineNewmarket
This
is where we will place project updates and
news of our Imagination Centre events. Come
back and have a look often.
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September 27th 2007 |
Sustainable
Buildings Day
September 27th 2007 - 09.30am to
2.30pm
George VII Memorial Hall
High Street, Newmarket, Suffolk.
Our
next event for children and young people.
Building
on the success of our 2006 Architecture Week event - we're
thinking this time about the future of buildings and the use of natural
power sources.
Working in groups to discover uses
for wind, water and sun - building models and shelters from
natural materials.
Teaching and learning will take
place through slides, film and group work - using our successful mix of
story telling, making and building our ideas, working together.
Letters,
as last year, will shortly be sent to all our schools - but you can
download the event flyer by clicking the image above.
A site/event Risk Assessment
undertaken for the event can
be found on our download page. Read
more...>>
Get
a free copy
of Adobe
Reader.
We thank Newmarket Town
Council for their generosity in making this event possible.
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August 2006 |
ImagineNewmarket
Chair
presents certificates...
Tim Young, Chair of ImagineNewmarket, commissioned the
production of
commemorative certificates to say thank you and mark the involvement of
project partners
- local schools and businesses - in the delivery of our Design It Day.
 Tim remarked that '...the
involvement of local young people in our project marked the beginning
of the design process for our regional landmark building.
What it looks
like, what is in it - will all be the product of the energy and
imagination of young people'.
To mark the support of business in the delivery of the
ImagineNewmarket
vision Tim presented Little
Angels, Bury St. Edmunds with a framed certificate to mark
their significant contribution to our start up process.
Tim
Young of
ImagineNewmarket and Joan Weingaertner of Little Angels, Bury
St. Edmunds.
The Little
Angels team provided professional care and support, in
concert with parents and carers, on the Design It Day.
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June 2006 |
See
our Design It Day report here. - part of Architecture Week
2006.
We had a great, informative and stimulating day. We came back
from Tattersalls Newmarket weighed down with ideas, drawings and models
to help design our new building. Design
It Day page.
ImagineNewmarket Architecture Week Event....
Tuesday
June 20th 2006
Tattersall's
High Flier enclosure, Newmarket. 9.30am - 2.30 pm
Contact ImagineNewmarket
if you would like to help with our work.
We are holding an event in partnership with The John's Practice of
Newmarket to celebrate Architects Week.
Children will be able to explore space, materials and develop ideas in
a safe, friendly atmosphere.
We will learn about buildings, how they are built and creating a 'wall
of ideas'.
Young people attending will also have the chance to contribute to a
Children's Forum and to give their ideas about the creation of
ImagineNewmarket, our new Imagination Centre in Newmarket.
Architecture, community and young people in action. Turning ideas into
reality.
See our programme for the day here.
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April 2006 |
ImagineNewmarket are designing an event to celebrate Architecture
Week, beginning on the 16th June
2006.
We will shortly be writing to local schools to tell children about our
workshop activities. Where they can explore building materials, design
ideas and contribute to the creative community thinking around our
proposed building in Newmarket.
Our Architecture
Week event is a partnership with
the community, schools, architectural practices and our Vision Team.
If you would like to volunteer for a day and help to spark some ideas,
or have any materials that you can donate that might be useful
for us email information@imaginenewmarket.org.uk
Paper, pens, card, pencils, crayons, cloth, flour, string, board
panels...everything gratefully accepted...we collect.
Members of the Vision Team visited Discover
in Stratford, East London. Looking to see how it can be done and to
find out what works well.
Thank you to the Discover team for making us so welcome during a busy
day.
This Imagination
Centre, created in refurbished buildings in East London has an exciting garden, with an interior that
has been created to stimulate imaginations through storytelling.
The
centre is visited by thousands of school children throughout the year
and offers its users a wide range of activities and events to to
stretch minds and 'imaginings'.
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March 2006 |
Our Vision Team have developed, consulted about and agreed a formal constitution for ImagineNewmarket.
With a framework document that now guides our activities we are now opening a bank account and raising development funds to move our project forward.
The Vision Team/ImagineNewmarket Community Committee are now looking at applying for formal charity status as a next step.
Watch this space for further news of our development.
We intend to publish our committee reports and working documents on this web site. You can see them on our 'downloads' page.
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February 2006 |
ImagineNewmarket received press coverage during February.
You can obtain a facsimile of the article from our download
page.
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January 2006 |
news
and events at
ImagineNewmarket
This month our
plans include work around the following...
Consultation:
This web site, for example, is all about the businesss of
building an
Imagination Centre and the process of establishing our charitable
organisation.
The Vision Team are committed to involving children and young
people in
these processes. As you revisit this web site in the future
you will see the creative energy and ideas of Newmarket's young people
reflected in what you see.
We are taking the message of our project out into the
community from
this month. We will be very happy to arrange talks and presentations to
to community groups and partners in West Suiffolk about our project.
Contact us on information@imaginenewmarket.org.uk
if you would like to know more.
Our
Charitable status:
The Vision Team will, from this month, be pressing ahead to
formalise
their organisational structure. We would still like to hear from anyone
who would be willing to volunteer their time as a potential trustee of
ImagineNewmarket.
We meet monthly for support, ideas and progress reports. The
Vision
team are committed to providing appropriate induction and training for
trustees - working always to deliver our efforts using best practice
and with the full support of our partners.
Contact us on information@imaginenewmarket.org.uk
if you would like to know more.
Development
funding:
Linked to the formalising of our structure we are beginning
the process
of raising development funds for our project. We would like funds to
undertake full and formal consultations with our community, to
fund the creation of design and build options and to provide
for public events and training for the Vision Team.
We want to use our energy to create visual models that offer
choices,
that help us to show interested groups what is possible.
Watch this space for updates of our progress
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ImagineNewmaket
- lifting expectations and imaginative horizons...
Image
courtesy of Sue Martin
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