The Glossopdale Trust AGM will be held at 7pm on 11th December 2013 at Glossop Gasworks, Arundel Street, Glossop.
We will be e-mailing all members & supporters over the next couple of weeks with an invitation to the event, along with details of the Agenda.
If you would like to be included, please sign up here. You can also stay up to date by following us on twitter or facebook.
If you would like to submit an item for the AOB, please do so on-line here.
We are going to have a stand at the Manor Park Bonfire next week (2nd November). In addition to selling home made Parkin & Fudge, we will be there to answer any questions about what we are up to.
We are also supporting Bankswood Music who will be putting on Live music at the event.
So if you are going to the Bonfire, be sure to come over & say “Hi”. We would live to meet you.
you will find full details of the Bonfire here.
The Glossopdale Trust have just launched on both Twitter & Facebook. We will do our best to post all the latest news about the Trust and our activities on social media, so Like our Facebook Page and follow us on Twitter & we will keep you posted.
First of all, can I thank you for taking an interest in the Glossopdale Trust & supporting what we are trying to do.
The Glossopdale Trust was set up as a community organisation and as such you, our members are most important to us. Thus ensuring that you know what we are doing is essential.
As part of this process going forward, rather than invite all members to board meeting (which was becoming impractical) we will be producing a summary of the Trusts activities on a quarterly basis in the form of a Newsletter, the first of which is attached. These will outline any key decisions & activities undertaken by the Glossopdale Trust, and will aim to keep you informed of what we are up to. We will also publish these newsletters on our website (www.glossopdaletust.org) and welcome comments either on-line or via email to info@glossopdaletrust.org.
In addition to this, we will also aim to hold an AGM on an annual basis (as set out in our articles of association) to which all members & supporters will be invited.
Trough these mechanisms, we aim to ensure that you our supporters are kept fully informed as to our activities, and have the mechanisms to make comment and influence the decisions/directions that we take.
We hope you find the newsletter interesting and look forward to your comments.
Summer Newsletter 2013
SIB Application
The Board approved the draft tabled at the meeting held on 5th June 2013 and agreed this should be sent to Anton Schultz of Locality, requesting help with questions 7 and 8. It was also agreed to give a copy of this final draft to the council, who had asked for a progress undated.
Council Matters
Community Voice
This event had been organised by the council to talk to local groups about what is going on in the town. D Wright suggested Glossopdale Trust ought to be represented and possibly make some kind of presentation. Several agreed to attend at 6.30pm on 24 June in Bradbury House.
Meeting with HPBC
Dai Larner, who is Director responsible for regeneration, wanted to meet the Directors of Glossopdale Trust. D Wright invited representatives from the council to the Gasworks at 6.30pm on Wednesday 3 July and they had refreshments with the Directors before the July Board Meeting that day.
Bankswood Music Festival
Glossopdale Trust are now working with Glossop Round Table to organise the 2013 Bankswood Music Festival. Taking place on 31st Aug & 1st Sept, the festival aims to be a great showcase for local musical talent.
In order to support engagement with the council regarding the Halls project, we will be inviting members of HPBC and DCC to attend the Festival.
Art in the Window
Between 40 and 50 shops have signed up across Glossop and Hadfield and bill board spaces around Piccadilly booked to promote the event this year. It has been suggested there should be a press release about all four of the August ‘festival’ activities. Glossop Life had advertised Art in the Window but there was no mention of Glossopdale Trust and we will be looking to raise the Trust’s profile in future publicity. The whatsoninglossop website continues to profile the Trust and handle all public information enquiries.
New Board Members
In light of the fact that specialist skills would be beneficial going forward new members have joined the board. They are S Bullivant (Commercial Solicitor), J Beard (Live Sound Engineer and Tutor) and C Herbert (Construction Project Manager).
Ethical Policy
We have discussed the possibility of working on a mission statement or some brief aims and objectives that will include our ethical responsibilities as well as our artistic and community intensions.
AGM
As soon as a date is agreed all Members and Supporters will be notified and invited to attend.
To help promote the Bankswood Music festival and local music scene, we are holding a battle of the bands competition at the Oakwood in Glossop on the 4th July. There will be a panel of music industry professionals judging the bands.
The winners of this competition will not only receive a slot to play live at this year’s festival, but also a day of rehearsing and recording in the highly spec’d Charlie Jones Venue at SSR in Manchester with help from Jay Beard (SSR’s Head of Live Sound), who’s students will be running the production for the festival.
If you’re in a band or know someone who might be interested and want to enter the battle of the bands or for more info on playing the festival, email bands@bankswoodmusic.com with a link to your material on youtube or soundcloud.
The date fro bankswood festival 2013 has been set for Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September in Bankswood Park Hadfield. The event is free but a contribution is encouraged as local charities will benefit once the event is paid for.
Dates for the art in the Window Festival 2013 have now been agreed.
Running through the whole of August we already have over 40 independent shops in the town signed up to take part. With an exciting group of artists including nationally & internationally renowned professionals and some of the extremely talented local armatures, Art in the window 2013 is going to be bigger and bolder than ever.
A NEW CULTURAL & COMMERCIAL CENTRE FOR GLOSSOP – OWNED AND MANAGED BY AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF GLOSSOPDALE! NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE.
The town hall complex has been central to life in Glossop for well over 100 years, with the town hall building having been used from everything from a courtroom, to a music venue. However in recent history, whilst the municipal buildings have been fairly well maintained and used by HPBC, the indoor market has become dilapidated and is in desperate need of investment, whilst the town hall building is now pretty much derelict and unused.
Against this backdrop, 2 years ago a group of Glossop residents started talking about what a great place Glossop is, a vibrant, passionate community, located on the edge of the beautify peak district national park, and only 30 minutes from the centre of Manchester, and how under developed it was as a visitor location within that context.
At that point, we decided that we wanted to try to make a difference and to develop a vision for the future of Glossop, and created The Glossopdale Trust.
One of the key strengths of the town that was immediately apparent to everyone, was the strength of the creative community in the town, from art, to music, to writing and storytelling and performance. It seems to be that everyone is a musician, artist or performer of some kind.
The natural conclusion of this thinking was to look to support the Economic development of Glossop through the support of music and the arts within the town.
One issue that came out of this thinking was that if Glossop was looking to attract visitors to the town, it lacked a focus to draw people in, and to encourage them to stay and spend time in the town.
Bringing these threads together, we see a great opportunity to develop the town hall complex into a vibrant complex, focused around music and the arts, used and run by the community, for the community, that would attract people to visit the town and spend time in the town.
Some of the ideas that have emerged to date are set out below, however none of these are set in stone, and we will work with the local community to ensure that the final development delivers greatest possible benefits for Glossop, economically, culturally and socially.
In other words to create a complex in the centre of the town that will become the heart of the town, managed and used by the people of Glossop, and an attractive destination for those visiting the area.
ALL OWNED AND MANAGED BY AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF GLOSSOPDALE! NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE.
To make this a reality, we are looking to work with the community of Glossop, High Peak Borough Council, and an organization called Locality (www.locality.org.uk) to create a plan for the sustainable use and management of the Town Hall, Market and Municipal buildings in line with the vision outlined above.
The next step in this process is, working closely with locality, to create development plan for the town centre complex and to identify funding opportunities to finance this development.
The Glossopdale Trust is an asset locked company limited by guarantee, that has different levels of membership open to everyone.
Anyone interested in getting involved in the Trust or the project, can get in touch via the “get involved” link on this website.