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INK on MESH crowdfunder launches today

Lorna Brown is seeking your support to turn her dream of a creating a community arts and design resource in Newhaven into a reality.

Lorna explained: “Creative Scotland selected my business plan for their crowdmatch funding support in February this year.

“I’m looking to achieve my goal of establishing INK on MESH, a community print space that offers classes, courses and tuition in screen printing and stitched textiles.

“Post – pandemic, INK on MESH will become a space that promotes and encourages creative expression, community connections, confidence building and well being through hand craft and heritage skills education.

“I can continue to develop my own textiles brand, Blessed Unrest and also provide affordable space and specialized equipment for developing, emerging and graduate practitioners.”

INK on MESH is an interest partner with The Heart of Newhaven Community, one of the first dedicated intergenerational centres in the UK and will potentially open there in Autumn 2021 or in another local retail space.

Lorna added: “Individuality prevails! You can give people the same instructions and access to the same materials & equipment but how they explore that, interpret and express that is entirely UNIQUE … this is one of the fascinating and constant motivating experiences for me as a craft educator.

“Ink on Mesh will become that dedicated space where people at all ages and stages can come to explore their unique ideas through the craft of screen printing and textiles. Let’s make this happen!”

The crowdfunder launches at 9am this morning (Monday 22 March).

Crowd funder for #inkonmesh – https://crowdfunder.co.uk/ink-on-mesh

Linda’s friend and colleague Lisa Arnott said: “I can not express how super delighted for my amazing best friend Lorna Brown of BlessedUnrest and her Crowdfunding launch for the new and amazing dedicated print studio INK on MESH.

“Her Crowdfunding starts at 9am on Monday 22nd March. It’s an amazing way to become part of her story, show your support for a well-needed resource for our community and support the arts and design industries.

“Set your watches and phone alarms for 9am on Monday 22nd March!”

Please start supporting and following:

Facebook:@inkonmesh

Instagram:@inkonmesh

Twitter@inkonmesh

Individuality prevails!

Let’s make this happen!!😁🙌🏼Monday 22nd at 9am.

Newhaven sings on St. Andrew’s Day

Three cheers for the patron saint of Scotland!

Are you celebrating? Perhaps virtually, this year.

Fitting for those who live around Newhaven, that Andrew was also the patron saint of fishermen. Did you know that the Newhaven fishwives were famous for their singing?

They formed two choirs and the village became known as “a nest of songbirds”.

Those who trudged up the hill to sell their fish in the city of Edinburgh used to sing as they went and they probably included songs by that famous Scottish songster and poet, Rabbie Burns.

Now you too can sing like Newhaven songbirds and celebrate Burns! 

Heart of Newhaven Community is collaborating with several local choirs and  numerous individual singers to celebrate together by recording Auld Lang Syne.

Recorded individually in your own home, each recording will be melded together and the result will be a community choral work, ready in time for Christmas.

Check out Newhaven Sings on our website where you will find easy-to-follow instructions on how to download the accompaniment and send in your own recording.

Recordings should be sent in before the 13th of December and the final work is expected to be ready by the 23rd December.

Join in.

Join Newhaven Sings.


Latest news from Newhaven

Heart of Newhaven Community (HoNC) continues to work towards acquisition of the Victoria Primary School site and despite the impact of Covid 19, our timetable for completion remains the same: as soon as the children move to their new school, we will move in, hopefully in the autumn of next year, 2021.

To acquire the building, which we have permission from City of Edinburgh Council to purchase, we need to find £700,000. To this end, an application to the Scottish Land Fund (SLF) has already been submitted.

With the current SLF funds geared towards applications with more immediate needs, particularly those who have Covid-related issues, we have decided to pause our application until the next round of grants which will bring it more in line with our expected purchase date.

This comes on the recommendation of the SLF itself, who consider our application a very strong one but have advised us that such a pause would make our case even stronger. They are continuing to support us and helping us fund our preparation.

So fear not if you see headlines about the next community projects to have gained SLF grants later this month and no mention of HoNC. We are confident we have a strong case, made even stronger by this hiatus. Our plans for purchase and our timetable remain the same.

To help our case, we need even more members of our SCIO to show support within the community. Numbers are increasing steadily but if you haven’t already applied to be a member, please do so as soon as you can. In this case, size really does matter! Membership is free and it gives you a say in what happens.

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Equally, we need volunteers and not just for the long-term. At the heart of our project is the well-being of the community we serve. Covid 29 has not only put the brakes on the construction of the new school, it has affected so many in our community, in so many ways.

If you can sign up as a Newhaven Neighbour to help the isolated and vulnerable within our community, perhaps by collecting prescriptions, doing shopping, tidying a garden, delivering Christmas boxes, making an occasional phone call to check on the isolated, then we would welcome your help. Check our website for a form to fill in.

Become a Newhaven Neighbour. Get in touch. Add your name. The community will be the stronger for it.

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Remember that you can still read our Chair Rodney’s regular 20:20 vision in his View from the Chair which you can find on the website.

The View from the Chair