Distinctive Sharrow Action Group Agenda Tuesday 11th May 2010 6pm (TONIGHT!)

1. Introductions and apologies

2. Lloyds Corner

3. Empty Shops and Artists

4. Art Trail II

5. Portland Works Open days

6. Sharrow Signpost

7. Any other business

8. Next Meeting

Empty Shops

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255162/Fake-shopfronts-built-improve-look-recession-hit-high-streets.html

Distinctive Sharrow Action Group meeting

The next Distinctive Sharrow Action group meeting will be held at the Old Junior School, South View Road on Tuesday 6th April at 6.30pm.

Please send any agenda items through to me at julia@sharrowcf.org.uk before this date

We will update/ have a chat about the following:

1. Lloyds Corner
2. Lowfield Myspace
3. Empty Shops and Artists
4. Portland Works
5. Art trail
6. Project planning and proposals

Action Group Events in January and February

Saturday 9th January 10am-1pm: Empty Shops and Artists Funding Workshop meet at the OJS

Saturday 16th January 10-1pm: Lloyds Corner Design Workshop at Action Group HQ, the OJS

Wednesday 27th January 5.30pm: South Yorkshire Energy Centre Training, meet at the centre, 5.30pm

Wednesday 24th February: Built Environment and Landscape Students Presentations and Action Group Social. At 6.00pm at the Action Group HQ, the OJS

Please contact me on sharrow_action@hotmail.com for more details about any of the above events. There are also more to come, watch this space!

Next Action Group Meeting

The next meeting of the action group will be next Tuesday, 8th December at 6pm...

Please try to attend as it will give us a chance to plan the projects for next year...
Three-line-whip!

This includes the next stage of LLoyds Corner, the Art Trail and the Shops Project...We have now got funding for two of these and need to work towards gettting funding for the third...

Empty Shops Meeting Notes

Notes from the Shops meeting

Please find below the key information from the empty shops meeting.

· We will create an umbrella organisation and identity for empty shops projects throughout the city. This should help us gain publicity and also help link together people who are interested in this type of project. We have agreed this with the Sheffield University Empty Quarter Live project and they will mention this in their final report to Sheffield City Council.

· Our empty shops project will run alongside Art Sheffield, which is from March- May 2009. We will aim to secure four shops and have a number of artists in each on a rolling programme.

· We will need to make an application for funding ideally before Christmas as the Arts Council take 3 months to decide an application for over £5,000.

· We are looking for one or two people who may be interested in looking at the funding application for this project. Julia will be in contact to see if anyone is willing to pursue this.

· We will create a website which will include Sheffield Empty Shops information, such as contacts, other projects and reports (inc Empty Quarter Project Report), creative ideas, useful information. CM will look in to the creation of this.

London Road Empty Shop Project Meeting

Hello
For those involoved with the London Road empty shop art project there is a meeting on Wednesday 14th 6pm at the Action Group headquarters.

We will discuss:

- The possibilities of producing a rolling programme of events over the course of one/two months, as the amount of shops we secure may be small.

- Possibilities of linking the project in some way with other projects using vacant spaces around the city.

- Titles!

- Updates from Sheffield Showcase tour and other meetings/advice.

- What we are all able to offer and set a timescale.


Thanks! Looking forward to seeing you there.

Charlotte

Empty Shops Planning meeting

The next meeting for Empty Shops will be Wednesday 14th October at 6pm at Action Group HQ, the Old Junior School, South View Road, Sharrow. Please RSVP, we look forward to seeing you there.

Reminder: Empty Shops tour with David Parker

The tour of the shops on The Moor with David Parker will be tomorrow, Tuedsay 15th September, meeting outside the Town Hall at 10.30am prompt.

See you all then!

Empty Shops and Rates

Need to understand and explain rates and empty shops? Rates Matrix available for download now!

http://www.meanwhile.org.uk/9.html

The good news is that there can be up to 100% discount on rates for shops used for 'meanwhile' community uses... This is however, discretionary and so we would have to discuss it with the council...

Meanwhile space offer financial support for projects and this is the form we would need to fill in: http://www.meanwhile.org.uk/resources/Project+overview+template.doc

Does anyone want to give this a go?

Meanwhile Space

http://meanwhilespace.ning.com/

Updated info on empty shop fronts.... This is really exciting- lots of great projects such as cinema in shops, art, etc...

and they fund projects too! please check this out...

Our contact at Meanwhile Space is the lovely Emily Miller- and we have now joined as the Distinctive Sharrow Action Group- contact julia@sharrowcf.org.uk for the password/ username if you want to log on as the action group and do some investigating...