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Safe Rave rural exchange

2012-02-13T13:38:00.000-08:00

We designed a 'Safe Rave' package to take the award winning project into other communities, to help tackle under age drinking, drug misuse and anti-social behavior. Each community 'Safe Rave' package will include e few 'Safe Rave' events for the young people, but will especially include DJ training for the youth and drugs and alcohol awareness sessions for the volunteers.
Each package will cater and can be adapted to suit the needs of the different communities.

There is already 4 communities that have been put forward for this package by DCC, we are excited to begin the out reach work.
Please read more about it by clicking on the Belper People link below:

>>> Belper People Article <<<

The money put into this project is being put into the communities for the training and tackling of antisocial behavior, but the money for the equipment hire to run the projects, which will be Hired through the Drop Inn will raise small amounts of funding to maintain and improve the facilities of our own youth centre.

It's a great new direction for The Drop Inn, we cant wait to start.

DiBOX Promo

2012-02-06T12:54:00.000-08:00

DiBOX is a youth open-mic night we are starting on the 1st of March.

We though we would share this artwork from our new Deviant Art Profile. If your on Deviant Art please watch us.

DiBOX by ~thedropinn on deviantART

JamJar Jam session

2012-02-02T03:18:00.000-08:00

Or follow this link and visit our Soundcloud page:
JamJar Jam session at The Drop Inn

Donations

2012-01-31T04:40:00.000-08:00

Finally got our Donation button up and running on our website.
If you think we deserve it and would like to help support us, Please Make a Kind Donation.

Thank You very much,
The Drop Inn Team

Re-launch 2012

2012-01-23T09:16:00.000-08:00

We are re-open with some smarter and more exciting new attractions for young people.

New for 2012:
- Di-Bar, which is Belper and Amber Valleys only Youth Bar, serving smoothies, milkshakes,
food and other refreshments.
- Fully refurbished projection space for films, computer games, and also training / education sessions.
- Total refurbished games room, making the room look loads smarter and more spacious.
- 2 brand new computers connected to our free Wi-Fi network.
- Cleaner, smarter and better facilities through all of the main space.

Please look at the Belper News report of the grand re-opening event for more details.
Goto: Drop Inn’s re-launch - Local - Belper News

Belper News - New Years Honour Award 2012

2012-01-11T05:53:00.000-08:00

Andrea has won the New Years Honours Award 2012 Presented by Belper News. Well done Andrea and Thank You Belper News

Re:space [7] 2012 Vision

2012-01-09T05:59:00.000-08:00

We have ran the re:space project a few times before, but never on this monumental scale. If your not familiar the re:space project is the re-design, refurbishing our space. This time the scale of project was to big so for the first time in 12 years we closed the centre to the Youth and public for 6 weeks to commence the building work.

We re-open on the 23rd of January. We have refurbished all the rooms and build an exciting new feature for the young people, which will be a first in our town, district, and one of the only in Derbyshire County. It's very exciting.

Hope to see you all on the 23rd of January, we are opening from 2pm till 9.30pm

OldScool News Jan 2012

2012-01-07T10:11:00.000-08:00

As part of the Old School (Old is Cool) News we look at what we were up to 10 years ago from today.

Click Here to see what we were doing 10 years ago.

NYE 2011

2011-12-20T13:23:00.001-08:00

NYE 2011, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We're hosting a New Years Eve fundraiser party at our centre, with help from friends Kindafunkyradio.com and Sound-hub.com

It's been two years since we last hosted an NYE party so we're very excited!

BBC East Midland Today Review

2011-12-08T04:47:00.000-08:00

We had a brilliant interview on East Midlands today news. It was broadcast twice, the first one going out live.

If you were watching at the time, Check out the Live interview online:
BBC iPlayer film of the News

Otherwise visit: BBC East Midlands Today

Award Nomination by local MP

2011-12-06T08:38:00.000-08:00

Pauline Latham the MP for Mid Derbyshire has kindly nominated The Drop Inn for a National award. We ae so please to be nominated it means a lot to us and shows there is a great deal of support out there. If we win we also get awarded £10,000, which is incredible.

Please visit the Pauline Latham Article

QR Scan Codes

2011-11-10T15:00:00.001-08:00

QR Scan Code, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Scan this QR code with your smart phone. We are going to put this code on the new batch of stickers and a lot of the new wave of promotional material.

We have also had the idea of putting these codes inside the centre linking to relevant information about what we do online. For example there will be a code for our band room that will give information about the band room when scanned off the wall.

Eighteenth Safe Rave Promo

2011-11-05T13:28:00.001-07:00

F710[4]_Eighteenth, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The last 'Safe Rave' of 2011 is coming round. It may be the last of this year but it's a first for Live music. We have booked Just James the winners of the Sound Hub Battle of the Bands 2011 for the headlines. They do originals and covers of Dnb, Hiphop, Electro and dubstep. They are well worth seeing. Also on the Line up we wil see the legendary Shookz and resident DJ's Patchwerk and Skairpigg <<<

Node56 - Update

2011-11-03T12:08:00.000-07:00

We've not got a website up and running yet but we have set up a Facebook page to get people introduced to Node56. Which if you are unfamiliar with Node56, it is a Limited company set up to trade with the great assets the Drop Inn has build over the ten years of opening as a charity.

Please get familiar with The Drop Inn's new family member, and Like on Facebook:

Halloween Party 2011

2011-10-31T07:44:00.000-07:00

IMG_0936, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The staff had to wear compulsory fancy dress costumes.

IMG_0933, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

One of a favorite Scary costumes. There wasn't many Youth that dressed up, but the ones that did had make the effort with some brilliant costumes.

IMG_0926, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

This is some of the scary decorations put up to make the Drop inn look haunted. It looks amazing! Thank You to Andrea, Shush, Ant and some of the Drop In Youth so setting it all up.

Please Follow

2011-10-28T12:26:00.000-07:00

Follow @dropinntweet

New stickers

2011-10-22T12:13:00.001-07:00

We have made a few new sticker designs, and printed off a few hundred. Grab them at our centre and get tagging everywhere.

NODE56

2011-10-21T15:33:00.000-07:00

NODE56 rev2, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Node56 is a Limited company ran buy volunteers of the Drop Inn. It is a Events organising and marketing company, who also run media workshops in communities. Node56 also trades for the Drop Inn and will raise regular small amounts of money to donate to the Youth Charity. It's planning to start trading the beginning of 2012. Looks like next year will start of with another new member to the Drop Inn family. We will keep everyone updated with the progress of Node56.

Deviantart Profile

2011-10-20T12:37:00.000-07:00

We have set up a Deviantart profile to upload all out creative idea's. We have got a Sound Cloud Profile for our music, Youtube for films, Flickr for Photo's, and on most of the major social networks for contacts. There was never a play for our creative arts projects, so we've set this profile up to share our art ideas. There isn't much on there yet but keep watching it will be filled with art soon enough.

Click Here to see Deviantart profile

Halloween Party Poster 2011

2011-10-01T07:34:00.000-07:00

Halloween 2011, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We do a Christmas party every year, so this year we have decided to celebrate Halloween in a bigger way as well.

There is loads of work going into the decorations and planning of this event. The Drop Inn is going to look really spooky and haunted.

FORUM Concept

2011-09-25T10:20:00.000-07:00

FORUM isn't our internet forum it will be our the Drop Inn's art collective, much similar to the JamJar being the music collective and the Cinn being our Film collective. We like to keep each side of the Drop Inn organisation fresh with different brands for each area.

Really looking forward to getting this one moving, we've created some amazing art pieces in the past, so we want to push more of the arts side this year.

/// Creative Projects 2011 (End)

2011-09-19T13:34:00.000-07:00

/// Creative Projects 2011 End, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We are starting to promote our projects seasonal and in groups of 4. This is the first line-up of /// Creative Projects leading up to the new year.
- Dance + Poi
- Djing
- Reactive Graffiti
- Games Design

Each creative projects season we will try and run 2 or 3 standard projects we always run, and then at least 1 or 2 new ones.

The new project in this line-up is the Games design, which we are really excited to announce and can't wait to start!

Child Care starts again

2011-09-15T10:18:00.000-07:00

The Belper School contract for Child Care alternative education has started again. We've had an excellent pass rate so far so good look to the new group

12 / 09 / 11

2011-09-12T06:30:00.000-07:00

DSC03018, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

What we look like now, it will be all changing for the even better soon. We have some big plans for next year

New Stickers 2011

2011-09-10T10:14:00.000-07:00

To follow the styling of the new logo brand we have also launched some new stickers to put around. The original ones were made up of vinyl and didn't last very long, and also didn't have the website included. Now the new ones are printed and laminated so they last longer, they look smarter because they are digitally printed and they also include the website.

Look out for the new stickers there is plenty to go around (especially around the world)

Bank Holiday BBQ and Party

2011-08-29T13:07:00.000-07:00

It was a great turn out with loads of new faces turning up for the BBQ and party. It was lots of fun. We were hoping to have a release on the dates for the projects plan up until December for everyone, but it's not quite ready, so anyone that is interested in what we have planned please either look on here, the social networks or call in and visit again.

Cheers,
The Drop Inn Team x

Signed up to Grant Net

2011-08-28T06:22:00.000-07:00

We have signed up to the brilliant Grant Net in the hope we can find some funding for next year. Things are looking extremely tight again, so we nee to start looking for some big bids to ensure our survival of next year and the future. If anyone finds anything they think will fit our organisation or is good with funding bids please let us know. Thank you

Frankenstein level up

2011-08-22T06:20:00.000-07:00

We are looking for funding to mend two of Frankensteins feet (Bass speakers), repair an amp, buy new cables and hopefully buiod some massive bass speakers to bring him up to a 5k system

Olympic Torch Next Stage

2011-08-19T06:30:00.000-07:00

Adie has made it to the next stage after being nominated by V to carry the Olympic Torch next year. Well done Adie, this is getting really exciting now. We'll find out in December if He gets this opportunity.

Wikipedia Setup

2011-08-14T06:49:00.000-07:00

We are still in the process of setting up a Wikipedia page of information. We are still looking for help with the account set up if anyone knows anything about it please.

New News Structure

2011-08-13T05:47:00.000-07:00

We have been falling behind on our Blog this year due to the amount of projects and events we've been involved in. You will get to hear about all the positive work we've been doing this year in the next few weeks. This is the second apology this year for the lack of blogging. We think we have come up with a new idea to keep things updated better.

We are now going to be running blog sessions every Thursday, so as well as the staff blogging the news the youth will also get the chance to voice their opinions and evaluate projects, workshops and events. This way everyone following our blog will get a wider news coverage, written in different styles. It will also create opportunities for the youth to get into creative writing and start covering their own events as youth reporters. We're starting it next Thursday if anyone is interested.

For everyone else please keep looking at our blog and clicking on previous dates as the news will be filling all the gaps for each Month we've been open.

Y Not Festival 2011

2011-08-07T06:08:00.000-07:00

Y Not Festival, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The Y Not festival involvement was different again. We only supplied a P.A system, a few games, and DJ's. So we could focus on the music more than the artwork.

This was the open mic sessions on the Saturday in the Cider and Hog roast tent.

All weekend the tent we helped out with got a brilliant response.

Jasper at Y Not Festival, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We managed to get Jasper one of our volunteers onto the open mic. He only got to play a few songs but blew everyone away. It was awesome, and made us feel very proud. Thanks Jasper!

Y Not Festival, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

This is the tent at night just before the DJ's stepped up to play some house and techno.

The whole weekend had a brilliant response and raised £400 for the Drop Inn.

Re:space Cinn Plans

2011-07-28T05:35:00.000-07:00

We are looking at ways to improve our projection space. We are thinking of adding surround sound and boxing the projector in properly. The essential work will be the re-building of the roof, so we can use the space above for storage and put better lighting inside. We are trying to raise some funds for all this work, and hoping to start the work before the New Year.

Coppice Brook Clean up

2011-07-23T09:20:00.000-07:00

Coppice Brook Clean up, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We started where the Coppice Brook meets the River Derwent, near Belper Rugby Club.

We fetched 4 bin bags full of rubbish from the first section of the brook.

Coppice Brook Clean up, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The second section of the Coppice brook we cleared was through Belper Parks Nature reserve. It was here we found an old inflatable boat, sledges, newspaper bag, and loads of broken glass. This section took a lot longer to clean up.

We filled the back of a land rover with all the rubbish. The next stage is to sort through all the bags and send it off to be recycled.

Olympic Torch Nomination

2011-07-22T05:33:00.000-07:00

Adie has been nominated to carry the Olympic Torch to represent the voluntary sector. He was nominated by V after winning the Vinspired National award earlier this year. Fingers crossed Adie, it's amazing news!

Skate-BasketBall

2011-07-21T05:43:00.000-07:00

The sun or lack of sun must be getting to us. First the concept of Street Animation now the invention of a sumer extremely extreme sport. It could work we have a skate ramp and a basketball hoop, just need to work out how to make it a little more safe, then game on.

Street Animation Concept

2011-07-14T05:40:00.000-07:00

We've done Street Dance, Street Graffiti, Street Music styles so we thought we would try and develop a Street art concept. Lets see where this idea goes

Shookz New Music Video

2011-07-06T08:03:00.000-07:00

Summer Programme

2011-07-02T05:28:00.000-07:00

We have wanted to put a summer program together for years and aim it to a slightly younger age and up to 17. It would run like an out of school arts and crafts projects. With all the busy events we've had over this year we won't have tim to plan one, but it's in te pipeline for 2012. We probably wont do as many festivals so we're thinking of staying local to our centre and running some creative workshops.

Build-a-Band wk3 - Changes

2011-06-28T07:55:00.000-07:00

A few people were a bit unhappy about the song choices to try and cover. Everyone in the group has different music tastes, which is a great thing but difficult to find a happy medium for playing in a band together.

We have decided to move this project to next year, or the end of this year. Instead we are running Jamming sessions every Thursday and other open night by request. The jamming was the most enjoyable part of this project, and it also gives people the chance to musically gel with others, then potentially think about building a band.

We will keep people posted on the progress of Jam sessions and let everyone know when we are ready to run the Build-a-band project again.

Roots Project 2011

2011-06-26T05:22:00.000-07:00

Roots / Back in the day project is getting the current generation of youth to look through our files of old pictures and projects and scan it, then the staff will type a brief bit of news about it and blog it. Whilst the youth can find some current news and photo's and blog it next to the old news to compare we we are 10 years later. It's similar to the bygones page of the Belper news and should be a lot of fun doing it. It will also show the current generation of youth how we started up over 10 years ago

Press Pack Idea

2011-06-22T05:19:00.000-07:00

After all the attention we are getting over this summer we would really like to put a press pack together for when we are doing out reach work so people can discover who we are when we come out to work with them.

Build-a-Band wk2 - Jammin'

2011-06-21T15:00:00.000-07:00

Drum Marathons, then added bass lines, with Keys and Guitar. The second session everyone really enjoyed, just having an extended Jam session.
There was some disagreement on what to try and cover, but everyone worked it out and covered a couple of tracks. Everything is sounding pretty good so far.

Out The Box Festival 2011

2011-06-17T05:08:00.000-07:00

JamSource Tent, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Setting up our tent on arrival. There is still loads of work to do from this point.

JamSource Tent, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The JamCorner with some of the Nano Peeps from Bearded Theory Festival

JamSource Tent, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Looking across the tent from the JamCorner you can see the 3D Bird Jigsaw and right the other side you can see a P.A system set up with more art created by Adie. The other art piece was some levitating boxes to represent out the box influences. When finished it looked a small but very intriguing tent.

Recording of some of the Jam sessions in the Jam source tent.
Jam session at Out the box festival by thedropinn

Build-a-Band wk1 - Intro

2011-06-14T14:57:00.000-07:00

We will fill all these gaps in the news very very soon, keep looking back at dates, because we keep filling in loads of other news from as far back as March now :) Build a band news will pop up in the next week!

Website Update

2011-06-12T09:01:00.001-07:00

The new site has had over 1000 views now in it's pre-launch. The official launch will be announced as soon as we have finished the planned updates on it. There is some new links ad images being added to it. There is 8 new pages planned, and some changes in design. The template will remain the same, it works really well. Now we've had a few months of feedback we can make the improvements and then announce the official launch. It's really exciting, we have some amazing new idea's to improve the site.

Follow us on Twitter

2011-06-12T08:29:00.001-07:00

Follow @dropinntweet

Qype Profile

2011-06-07T04:45:00.001-07:00

We have just registered to the QYPE website, which will hopefully give some people the chance to find us and write reviews about their visits to the centre.

Visit The Drop Inn, Belper on Qype

If your familiar with QYPE please add us as a contact and write a short review and rate our Charity. If you don't have a profile it doesn't take long to sign up for one.

Hope to see you on their with reviews about us.

Thank You

Jamsource tent Promo

2011-06-06T05:05:00.000-07:00

Jamsource tent Promo, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We are really excited about this festival especially after the buzz of our first in May.

At this one we are only supplying some experimental workshops, so we can focus more on the art side for this festival.

Hope to see you all on the 17th June

2011 Marketing Campaign

2011-06-01T11:37:00.000-07:00

Work has begun on our 2011 Marketing Campaign. We have never really done one, but are going to try. The idea is to tie all the amazing idea's and projects we have done and are doing this year and then promote them better.
The organisation is taking some great new directions which is changing the face of it again, while keeping the focus back on the Youth in our community. Hopefully this Marketing Campaign will be fun to create, with the idea's coming from our current young people, which will be giving most of the information and content to put into it. This will hopefully attract even more young people in the future, and also get the positive work the Young people have done noticed to a wider audience.

Belper People Profile

2011-05-27T09:03:00.000-07:00

We've just found this website for local businesses which we thought we should be on. Check it out on:BELPER PEOPLE !!

Building Plan final decision

2011-05-22T04:31:00.000-07:00

We have decided we cant afford the extra rent for the other building joined to our Jamjar room. After the survey done, the surveyor had said we would have to put too much money into making it safe, which unfortunately we couldn't afford as well at paying the extra rent on the building.

It was going to be our own dance studio, so instead we will look at improving the facilities in the main room for dance projects.

Build-a-Band Poster

2011-05-21T06:29:00.000-07:00

Build-a-Band Poster, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The Build-a-band project is starting a week after people get back from the half term break.
It will run on every Tuesday night from the 14th June. This project has been in the pipe line for a while, but it seems now we are involved in quite a few events it would be even better to have some bands who started from our centre.
Plus the people involved in this project will get some amazing opportunities to play some exciting live events.
Come down and meet some new musicians and have fun Jamming the first few weeks. Hopefully see you on the 14th June.

New Company Name?

2011-05-21T04:36:00.000-07:00

We have been setting a company up to act as the Drop Inn's trading arm, with all the extra money passing through for all the events. We just need a name for it, any suggestions please email us

Jamsource tent Promo

2011-05-20T12:59:00.000-07:00

Jamsource tent Promo, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The crazy poster for the crazy Jamsource tent @ Out The Box Festival.

We'll be Jamming with open Source Art creating some unique sounds and visuals to compliment the already exciting local festival.

Graffiti Academy Live

2011-05-20T04:12:00.000-07:00

The Drop Inn Teamed up with Urban Canvas and Urban Projection to help put on an under 18's night on at Donut Studios in Chesterfield. The night was organised by Urban Canvas who had ben running a graffiti project at the centre and set up a group of young people known as The Graffiti Academy. This event was set up to exhibit the work and hopefully sell some of the art work on. The event also included live workshops from Urban Projection, who were running Light Graffiti workshops and supplying some amazing visuals for the DJ back drop. The VJing was very impressive, see the video below. The young people in attendance were more attracted to the light graffiti workshops which were a huge success.
The Drop Inn supplied the resident youth DJ Skairpigg and DJ Shookz who has ran DJ workshops for over 6 months at The Drop Inn centre. The music was enjoyed by a group of young street dancers from the Donut Centre. Unfortunately the music was a bit too heavy and a bit much for the younger members attending the centre. The Drop Inn aims the Friday night youth provisions to the young people on the street and attracts more 14 - 17 year olds, where as the Graffiti Academy Live was geared up more for 11 - 14 year olds with live workshops to engage in. If The Drop Inn was to get involved next time we would know to pitch the music for a younger age. It was still fun all around. Our resident youth DJ really enjoyed it. It was also very nice to finally make contact with The Donut Studio and meet the staff you guys are doing a brilliant job, keep up the good work. It was also a great pleasure to finally meet Urban Projections which we would love to do some projects in the near future with. Please check their video for the night out below.

Festival Vibe Pics of BTF '11

2011-05-19T06:53:00.000-07:00

Please Check out the Festival Vibe pitures of Bearded Theory Festival they look awesome!

BBC Radio coverage of Bearded Theory 2011

2011-05-16T08:50:00.000-07:00

We get a few mentions through this show. Whitemoor were really good, they impressed everyone and covered the whole festival in promo stickers and posters, thats the way to do it Derby! Check the BBC Interview with Whitemoor who had just come out of the Drop Inn arena after playing their very enjoyable performance. Looking forward to seeing you guys in the near future!

Website over 500 hits

2011-05-15T07:08:00.000-07:00

Our new generation of website has had over 500 hits in it's first Month. Most of this is due to the success of the Drop Innvaders game. We are hoping to do a press release about the website after the Bearded Theory Festival is out the way.

Future Sponsors

2011-05-09T08:27:00.000-07:00

We've sent some begging letter out at the beginning of the year, and heard back from a couple of companies who are willing to sponsor our community project. Please let us know if you know of an established company willing to sponsor our Local Youth Project, currently we only have one Sponsor. Companies can sponsor us a week a year which is £200, a lot of money to us, but it would mean then we would only have to find 51 more weeks of rent next year.

Please help us find a couple more sponsors,

Thank You x

Heage DnB night II

2011-05-07T06:21:00.000-07:00

After the success of the First DnB night set up by Shookz, the Windmill Inn booked 3 more nights.
This was the second one and saw some more people turning out to have a bounce.
Each time the Drop Inn gets £40 for the hire of their P.A system and Decks, (Frankensteins Arms and head)

Out The Box Festival Promo

2011-05-06T09:29:00.000-07:00

Out The Box Festival Promo, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Just a little Promotional Profile Picture ready for Out The Box Festival June 17th.

DJ booth for BTF

2011-05-05T05:51:00.000-07:00

DJ booth for BTF, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We build our own customised DJ booth for The Bearded Theory Festival. This was after panicking realising we didn't have a table big enough for all the DJ equipment.

It does look quite smart even if we do say so our selves.

Company update

2011-05-03T04:39:00.000-07:00

If we haven't told you before we are in the process of setting up a sister company to the Drop Inn, which will act as a trading are to sell the services of the charity at a commercial rate. The profits will then feed back into the charity like a social enterprise to support and stabilize the charity financially in the future.

Graffiti Academy Live Poster

2011-05-02T05:05:00.000-07:00

Graffiti Academy Live Poster, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Advert for the Graffiti Academy Live event where we are supplying the music to go with Urban Canvas and Urban Projections workshops. We'll be bringing along our two Youth DJ's

Willington Arts Festival illustration board

2011-05-01T05:49:00.000-07:00

Willington Arts Festival illustration board, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

This was one of the illustration pieces the young people at Willington Arts festival created. The Young people who took part had to think how to get different shades and create illusions of different colours using patterns and different shading techniques with the selection of limited coloured marker pens.

BTF Drop Inn Arena Boards

2011-04-29T04:26:00.000-07:00

We are designing the Arena boards today. We'll have three for the Main arena explaining what is programmed for when, with all the correct times for the artists. There will also be one for the workshop tent which will also have a description of all the live art pieces. Then we are having a final one explaining what the Drop Inn is as an organisation.

Drop Innvaders New Designs

2011-04-28T09:07:00.000-07:00

New Space Ship

New Space Ship, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Here is one of the new designs for the Drop Innvaders Game competition to design new items for the online game

Wip Boss Alien

Wip Boss Alien, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

This is another design. Very interesting idea to introduce aliens to the game. Think the idea with this new enemy would be that they emerge from a planet and you have to blow the planet up to stop the aliens coming out and attacking you.

BTF Drop Inn Arena Programme

2011-04-27T09:34:00.001-07:00

Programme

Arena Programme, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

This is the Full Arena Programme with all the Programmed entertainment over the weekend.

Drop Innvaders Update

2011-04-26T10:16:00.000-07:00

We still haven't promoted or had any press release on our game yet, we have just slowly been passing it around Facebook.

So far it has had 360 plays in it's first month, we are so happy. If you haven't played it yet follow the link below:

DROP INNVADERS GAME

Coppice Brook Clean up

2011-04-23T08:02:00.000-07:00

We are joining another local community group to help clean up sections of the Coppice brook that runs through Belper.

This project will involve some of our Young people and we are hoping to make it an intergenerational project and involve some of the older members of the community through Linking Lives.

The idea being the Young people will clean it up and document the Clean up and the Older Members of the Community can help out by pointing out rubbish and maybe supply refreshments at certain check points, they can also tell stories and the history of the Coppice Brook, to illustrate the importance of keeping it clean.

This project is planned for some time in July, We will keep you all posted on the planning and updates.

New Graffiti Illustrations

2011-04-22T05:40:00.000-07:00

New Graffiti Illustrations, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Adie and Billy have added more to the Graffiti Illustration wall. It's really starting to fill out now and look amazing!

New Graffiti Illustrations, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Looking great on the close up, there is so much detail going into it

Kindafunkyradio.com Broadcast 21/04/11

2011-04-21T05:24:00.000-07:00

Catch The Drop Inn Show this Tonight on Kindafunkyradio.com at 6pm till 7pm feat DJs Skairpigg & Patchwerk (The Drop Inn Resident DJ's)

Dance Peer 2 Peer Workshops

2011-04-19T07:23:00.000-07:00

Some of the Youth that have been involved in previous Dance Workshops have put together some basic dance routines to teach people at The Bearded Theory Festival in workshops.

They are looking very good and a lot of fun. Some of the dances are being put into a performance being put together by Adie and Sarah the student on Placement from Derby Uni.

Soundcloud Remix Competition Idea

2011-04-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

Now we have our Soundcloud profile up and running with some of our own tracks on their we are wanting to promote the profile, and get some more interesting tunes on their.

Shookz and Jasper collaborated on a Drum and Bass track a few months ago and have given it to The Drop Inn. Then Shookz came up with the idea of running a remix competition and host it on our Soundcloud.

Soon we will be uploading the different elements to this track for people to download and remix, The best remix will get featured on the home page for thedropinn.org. There might even be more free music give aways for the winner.

We'll let you know when the track is up there ready to start remixing, it will be after the Bearded Theory Festival, so some time the end of May early June.

Formula 'Safe Rave'

2011-04-15T10:21:00.000-07:00

Formula 'Safe Rave', a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The 3rd 'Safe Rave' of 2011 is the Formula filth one, with resident DJ's and volunteer Ben Gregory Performing.

We tried some new toys out like MP3 encoded decks fed into the iMac.

It was an unusual 'Safe Rave' wasn't as busy as the others but it was still a good one.

Clothes Order [9]

2011-04-14T08:24:00.000-07:00

We are hoping to have this order ready for the Bearded Theory Festival. We have a few t-shirt designs done for the Resident Youth DJ's and for the staff. We have also tried to get the logo embroidered onto a jacket. There is even more items on this order, the orders keep growing each time

Build-a-band Idea

2011-04-13T06:59:00.000-07:00

Many years ago in the first couple of years The Drop Inn had it's very own House band. Now we have the Jamjar (Band Room) and no house band to use it all the time. We have bands come down to Jam in there, but we want to set up a Drop Inn house band again now. It would be amazing now we are getting involved in local festivals, the house band could open our stage each time.

It would be a lot of fun and also useful for communication between the local band scene. The student from Belper School who did the 3rd week of work experience enquired about the dormant project and was more than happy to take it on.

We'll post up when this project is planned to start, it should be not too long after The Bearded Theory Festival

Skydive Money collection

2011-04-12T07:02:00.000-07:00

We are hoping to have collected all the Skydiving money by the end of May, could all the people collecting try and have the last bits in by then please.

Thank You everyone that has sponsored this crazy fundraiser, when it's all collected it should be a fair bit.

Work Experience WK3

2011-04-11T06:44:00.000-07:00

We have our final Student who is from Belper School. The first group cleaned up in the first week, the second week was a lot of paperwork and data basing. Now this final week is aimed at sorting the music space out and planning some of the future projects.
The Student we have this week is studying music technology, so we can again cater for the different need of the student so they get the most out of their work experience week.
We have already asked them back to help with the build-a-band project and the Bearded Theory Festival, which gave them unbelievable motivation. They work very hard all week and really organised our JamJar music space.

All three work experience weeks have been completely different, all a great success with the students getting a great work experience out of it.

BTF Drop Inn Arena Face

2011-04-10T10:17:00.000-07:00

Arena Face Poster

Arena Face Poster, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Blur Your Eyes to see The Drop Inn's Arena Face!

Heage DnB night

2011-04-09T10:22:00.000-07:00

We hired some of the Frankenstein speakers to Shookz to run a Drum and Bass night in Heage at The Windmill Pub. It was a pretty good night. We've been given some more dates which will raise a little money for The Drop Inn each time.

Y Not Festival Proposal

2011-04-09T04:21:00.000-07:00

After the confirmation we had for getting in Bearded Theory Festival we have approached a few others for this year. Y Not is the the other huge Derbyshire based festival of the year. Fingers crossed we get this one as well.

The Big Drop (Skydive Footage)

2011-04-08T02:23:00.000-07:00

The Big Drop Footage is here from the 25 / 03 /11

Pals Take Leap of Faith
Pals leap of faith - Local - Belper News

Out The Box Festival Workshop List

2011-04-07T08:37:00.000-07:00

Our tent at Out The Box festival is called Jam Source, and promoted Jamming with Open Source Art: Here are some of the workshops we will be running!

[1] Industrial Trash Drumming – build a one–of-a–kind percussion kit to jam with, devise a jumping industrial sound.

[2] Light Sculptures – bounce light off people and places to generate light sculptures, experiment with light trails then project your light traces as live visuals.

[3] Reactive Graffiti Illustrations – Design graffiti marker art foundation then add a U.V mask to make a unique 2 layer graffiti wall.

[4] 3D Jigsaw relays – We have a picture of what this 3D Jigsaw looks like complete, we want teams to build it as fast as they can. The fastest time wins a prize!

Work Experience WK2

2011-04-04T06:40:00.000-07:00

This week we have a student for Landau Forte College who is training in Law. This week was different to the last week, with the student more involved in Paper Work and planning, which doesn't sound fun. The student did comment on how useful the week was and also how much they enjoyed their placement. Another successful week of work experience, one more week left.

Willington Arts Festival Poster

2011-04-04T05:35:00.000-07:00

Willington Arts Festival Poster, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The Drop Inn team are running some workshops at Willington Arts festival on the 30th of April and the 1st of May.

We'll be running a drumming workshop on the first day and then illustration workshops on the second day.

Please check out the festival on: Willington Arts Festival

Derby 10k Run

2011-04-03T10:23:00.000-07:00

Becky Haigh a member of the community who supports the Drop Inn has decided to do one of the Derby 10K runs and donate the money she raises to the Drop Inn Charity.

Becky managed to raise £150, which is amazing.

Thank You So much Becky x

Kindafunky Warehouse Party

2011-04-02T07:41:00.000-07:00

KFR, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Dave Angle the headline DJ for the Kindafunky Warehouse Party.
Photo By Angel Simpson.

KFR2, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The smoke machine and some of the crowd at the warehouse party.

KFR3, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Kindafunkyradio warehouse party.
Picture by Angel Simpson

Linking Lives Coffee Morning

2011-04-01T06:55:00.000-07:00

Linking Lives held a coffee morning, this included refreshments and some entertainment.

There was a series of films screened and some interesting live performances by Adie and Jasper.

The work experience students from Belper School enticed people in, and did a very good job helping out through out the event.

We saw a lot of new faces, looking forward to the next one.

Bearded Theory - Arena Story Poster

2011-03-31T09:30:00.000-07:00

Arena Story Poster, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

This is a story of the Drop Inn's Bearded Theory Adventure!

This weekend will be full of SUPERKAINE’d individuals, and UNKNOWN CREATURES of the night who are INTERAVINIT. We’ll be travelling in RICHARD AND THE RAFTERS vessel known as the PARADISE 9. We’ll be sheltered under the URBAN CANVAS sails which are meant to be WHITEMOOR than black, they are shaped in a huge rectANGLE, and have been covered in u.v NANO dust and graffiti. Travelling Over RIPTIDE’s and through SMOKE STACK’s to support ROBINSON, a man who knows THE BEARDED THEORY, and is on YOUR PLATFORM’s. On the way RICKY MEAKIN shouts “Hey MAESTRO, where’s the happy music, I’m in the mood for a crazy PANIC DANCE, you know how it goes.” OPERAND searched for some good GRADE of music on the WIRELESS to warm the hearts of the travellers, and get people in the mood for this big weekend. He gets SQUIGZ to stop scratching his itch and lay down a SHOOKZ track, featuring MC SPYDA, who’s got has THIS WICKED TONGUE for lyrics. Suddenly these STUNT BROTHERS burst through the PATCHWERKS of THePETEBOX, which was sat full of beer on Richards vessel next to HAYLEY & ANDRA. The two brothers Accidentally SKAIRPIGG’s not JASPER AND THE COMPANY OF OTHERS. Who had been teasing this DIRTY BEAR who was happy BASKing in the sun with the PANTS PRIEST all the way to the DROP INN ARENA, which is one of 7 amazing areas at this Derbyshire Festival. NATHAN HADLEY tries to put on a serious face and tells them to Stop acting a MONKEYS UNCLE. He recites from THE CODE written years ago by one of the original traveller’s know as JIMBO DOOMFACE the pirate. The Travellers code speaks of KEDLESTON HALL island. The original tail of the island was discovered by Dr FRANKENSTEIN and inherited by CHLOE-JADES grandfather, who kindly translated the pirates code so people can find this PARTY.

If this story of adventure doesn’t makes sense, please visit the Drop Inn Arena 13^th – 15^th May 2011 at the Bearded theory Festival, Kedleston Hall. The only gaps in this story are you guys!

DJ workshops 2011 update

2011-03-28T07:53:00.000-07:00

The DJ workshops are going very well with the experienced resident DJ's learning new more advanced skills ready for their performance at Bearded Theory in May. They are working on perfecting their set lists and getting loads of practice in.
The Monday night Drop-in DJ sessions are still going well with new faces calling in to have a go and mixing.

There will be a broadcast in April live on Kindafunkyradio.com for the young DJ's to perform their new sets. Looking forward to hearing them.

Work Experience WK1

2011-03-28T06:37:00.000-07:00

7 Students from Belper School are on work placement at The Drop Inn. They are planning and running the Linking Lives Coffee morning planned for this Friday. They are also cleaning everywhere and re-painting some of the wall to smarten the place up.

They have re-painted the Games room and the Lads Toilet. The Drop Inn has never looked so clean, hope they all come back to keep it this clean.

Skydive for Charity Write up

2011-03-28T05:24:00.000-07:00

Please have a look at this really good write up on This Is Derbyshire. We should have raised even more when it's all collected.

Signing preparation for Skydive

2011-03-26T05:20:00.000-07:00

Signing prep for Skydive, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Adie signed all the safety preparation to Billy before they're were allowed to do the Skydive

The Big Drop (Skydive)

2011-03-25T16:40:00.000-07:00

The Big Drop, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

7 People have decide to throw themselves out of a perfectly good plane to raise money for the Drop Inn charity.

Adie Stone: Inclusion Officer
Tom Stone: PP Manager
Ben Gregory: Trustee
Ant Baker: Volunteer
Ant Winson: Volunteer
Billy Alton-Wood: Young Member of the Drop Inn and deaf community
Dave Mellor: The Band Riptide

We've not counted how much we have all raised collectively.

Just before first Skydive, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The First Skydive Team look ready ...

Just after 1st Skydive, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The first team landing and with huge smiles on their faces

Skydive Media Coverage

2011-03-24T16:34:00.000-07:00

Skydive known as THE BIG DROP for The Drop Inn. Not long now!

Pals take Leap of Faith, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Photo Taken by Belper News just before the Just!

Excuse for no news

2011-03-23T13:25:00.000-07:00

Please excuse us while we fill in the massive gap in news from December. Should all be posted up in the next week now the website is working.

Bad excuse but it is an excuse.

x

New Building Survey

2011-03-21T16:04:00.000-07:00

We have had two surveyors come out and look at the building. Truth be told the first one laughed and the ambitious project to convert the tattered building into a smart dance studio.

We have only asked the surveyors to price up the basics of the building first, so it becomes a usable space. It need repairs to the Roof, walls and the floor, before you find this amusing though, it is still possible!

We are now putting all our focus on raising what money we can towards the new building, it looks like the work is going to cost around £2000. No we have our target we will do what we can to raise these funds and hopefully take over the new building.

A Spring 'Safe Rave'

2011-03-18T06:17:00.000-07:00

F710[2]_A Spring a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

This was all about the Drum and Bass mad March Hare. It saw the return of the favored DJ SHOOKZ, back by popular demand, and supported by the Resident Youth DJ's Skairpigg and PatchWerk!

We tried a new room lay out again, which made it sound even better and made a nice dance area, what the DJ's looked over.

This 'Safe Rave' was also dedicated to celebrate the life of Tom Chandler, one of our members who is sadly pass on. We stopped the music to have a minutes silence, and had a book to write messages to send to his family and close friends.