Digital Postcards At The Local

The Toad Hall Arms was the first venue for the two planned “Digital postcard open evenings”.

With a running slide show featuring the homes, views, animals and interesting locations of Moorsholm it stimulated interest and conversation with the local residents.  It also encouraged some written comments to go with some of the images.

Amongst some of the visitors were two Lockwood Parish councillors Mike Jefferson and Vic Davison together with local resident and Redcar & Cleveland Borough Councillor Steve Kay. They were very impressed with the photography and this resulted in an invitation to do a similar project in Lingdale/Stanghow.

Overall it is fair to say that the evening was a success.

Enjoying a pint after viewing the "Digital Postcards" of Moorsholm ( Left to right Mike Jefferson, Steve Kay and Vic Davison)

A pilot run of the DVN digital postcard will take place in Moorsholm over two days, 14th & 15th June.

There will be posters placed and every household will receive a leaflet inviting them to come along to view and comment on Moorsholm and the images. The images will projected onto a large screen and will run through a journey of views, households, and interesting areas of the village. Info sheets and comment forms as well as a audio recorder will be there to record interesting stories and quotes on Moorsholm.

Of course the event is not just for the residents and will be open to all, so please come along and support the project.

DVN Researchers Out And About

Out and around the communities (Part 4)

A Community Mapping Postcard By Stephen Nicholls

As we continue our community mapping exercise.  It takes us around Marske Visiting places like  St Marks Church and Its own community centre “The White House”.  The Leisure Centre which is run by volunteers and self funding. Marske libarary,  Bydales School and Thrushwood Community Centre which in turn led us on to Coast & Country’s H/Q in Dormanstown. Also to Bankfields School in Eston where the offices of Redcar & Cleveland’s adult learning are situated.  We gathered the information for the Community Map.

Out and about in the communities

(Part 2)

A Community Mapping Postcard

By Stephen Nicholls.

Lynne and I went to the Grangetown, South Bank and Eston areas to map more community facilities and meet some very helpful and interesting people working hard  to bring help, learning  and ICT to the local communities.

Claire From Teeside University Explains the Data.

The Jubilee Hall Carlin How

Studying The Results

Thank you to Carrie, Paul, Eileen and Claire for a very interesting session viewing and discussing the feedback on the survey. It was fantastic to see how the data collected panned out and surprising how some of  the results came out.

There was certainly some food for thought.

Thanks again and especially to Marion and Kathryn for arranging everything for us at Carlin How.

Steve N.

Out and about in the communities

(Part 1)

A Community Mapping Postcard

By Stephen Nicholls

A social get together at Christmas was a great chance to meet up with everybody and chat.

The Prof. Eileen enjoying a festive tipple.

Signing our lives away. And Carrie showing us where to sign. Roger, Lynne & Nick.

The Spread

Martin & Eileen

Paul & Steve T share a joke

Paul doing the drinks

The Carlin How Crew. Amanda, Marion & Roger.

Colin & John.

Steve T explaining how it's done. It's easy when you know how.

Selma, Roger & Steve T Tucking in.

Terry, John, Nick, Carrie, Pauline, Lynne & Steve

A hard day at the office. Carrie chairing a web evaluation meeting in Destinations . Fri 15/01/10

Thanks to Paul for taking the pics.

Was it something I said?

Christine with her prize winning number

Meet Christine the lucky lady who won £50 of high street vouchers in the Skelton draw. Christine is a support worker based in North Skelton Village Hall. “We were lucky to welcome a new grandson into the family over the Christmas period so it was great to be able to treat both my granchildren with my prize winnings” said a smiling Christine