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Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre
Henshaws award winning Arts & Crafts Centre is part of Henshaws Yorkshire, a charity offering practical help, support and services to people of all ages affected by sight loss.
Henshaws Yorkshire aims to support people through each stage of their life, via the Children & Families Service, Henshaws College, Henshaws Community Housing and the Arts & Crafts Centre.
The Arts & Crafts Centre provides a fully accessible, vibrant environment in which visually impaired people can learn new skills and express themselves through art and creativity.
Our workshops, which include woodwork, music and drama, papermaking and jewellery, are open to the public. The Centre also has a gallery holding regular exhibitions, a fully licensed café and a sensory garden to explore. A shop and plant nursery sell products and plants made and grown by service-users at the Centre and Henshaws College students.
Vocational opportunities are provided with both Henshaws College students and people from community housing working and volunteering at the Centre.
www.henshaws.org.uk |
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Ideas for Knaresborough development...
Renaissance Knaresborough is the organisation set up to identify, develop and deliver projects to improve the town of Knaresborough.
The Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, has provided an early indication of the ideas they could potentially support under the Renaissance Market Town (RMT) Rural Capitals Programme - (Yorkshire Forward’s new programme that supports market towns to become places where people want ‘live, work, invest and visit’). Harrogate Borough Council will be providing officer support to work with RK on these potential ideas to see if they are viable and suitable for funding under the RMT programme.
These potential ideas include:
· Town Centre Renaissance
· Knaresborough Community & Social Enterprise Centre
· Town lift
· Arts Development
· Signage and Interpretation
In addition, RK are currently progressing other ideas which came out as big priorities at the stakeholder event and we would be particularly interested to hear from anyone who might like to get involved in helping to take projects forward around:
· Youth engagement
· Green Town / Nidderdale Way
· RK Communication
For an informal discussion on how you may be able to help progress any of the ideas discussed at the Stakeholder event, or to make suggestions for new ideas, please contact: Peter Crossley, Harrogate Borough Council’s Partnership Development Officer on 01423 556019 peter.crossley@harrogate.gov.uk
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Help keep the town colourful
Knaresborough In Bloom is a group of local people devoted to adding extra colour to our town. We have around thirty tubs and boxes on the streets all filled with plants. Window boxes, hanging baskets and even a boat are all blooming in spring and summer each year. We enter the town in the Yorkshire In Bloom competition and we organise our own competition for local gardens. Its all good fun, so if you would like to help with our projects please get in touch.
Christine Willoughby 01423 866987
info@knaresboroughinbloom.co.uk
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A Knaresborough success story
Friends of Bebra Gardens is restoring this seventy six year old park in the centre of Knaresborough. Bebra Gardens is a delightful place on a sloping site quite close to the castle. Volunteers are always needed to help with gardening, digging, planting, sweeping and to help with running our group. A secretary would be useful! We are a friendly group who meet monthly, please see our website for details.
Andrew Willoughby 01423 866987 mobile 07885 543453
andrew@willouby.demon.co.uk
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