Re:space (refurbishment of our space)

Re:space (refurbishment of our space), a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Our biggest refurbishment project starts.
We have absolutly gutted the bar area, there is mess everywhere. At tyhis point it makes you think "How the hell are we going to do all this work?" It's so hard to imagine what it's going to look like.

It also makes you wonder how many other youth centre's get their own volunteer youth workers to do all the building work themselves, and which other youth centre's decide to pull their own space down and redesign and rebuild it in a few weeks with less than £1000 budget, which we raised ourselves at the New Years Eve Fundraiser party.
Silly? or just plain Drop Inn mental?

Re:space [7] 2012 Vision

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Di Promotional Banner

Di Promotional Banner, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Thank You Signs Express Derby for making a very bold and colourful pop-up banner for us. It will get used with our new promotional hand outs when we do presentations.

Eighteenth Safe Rave Promo

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

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: