Macmillan Coffee Morning 2012

Macmillan Coffee Morning 2012, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We had a really good coffee morning and saw a load of new faces.

Thank You to all who attended, hope you all had a nice time, and Thank You to all the volunteers who helped out and put on the entertainment.

We raised £46 in total for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Under 12's Night - Blue Box

We are piloting and under 12's night at The Blue Box centre on Parks Estate. The first one will be on the 31st Oct. This project came about from one of our Derby University placements project idea. Lisa (The Derby Uni Student placement) had to write / plan a project for her course, the project would involve our young Belper School students, young people from the centre and both supervised by our voluntary youth workers to all help run a night for under 12's. Lisa has finished her placement now and has done very well. Everyone at the Drop Inn was in agreement that this is suck a good project which will help another big need in the community. With al of us in agreement we just needed to get together once Lisa had finished her coursework and plan the first night and where.

Now we have found an area that has a big need for it, and a community space located in the middle of the estate. The centre has agreed to let us use it for the under 12's night, so we have planned to do a halloween themed party at the first pilot which will land straight on the 31st of October. We will keep everyone up-to-date with how it all goes.

Charity Boxes - 3 / 10 / 12

We've only emptied the 1st charity box at the Cross Keys - Thank You to all who donated into this box, we raised £16.99.

The other two charity boxes will be emptied at the end of this month, can't wait to see how much each one has the first time. pre-thanks to all who've put donations in already.

Website 4.0 update

We've not had much time since the last update to work on the website, and it's also changed for the better again. We can not wait to launch it's new design and content.

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New sounds, new graphics, new pages, new content and all easier to navigate and use. At this point I would like to say thank you to all who is working on it, it's a massive project. It's been worked on behind the scene for months now. Very nearly there, but to make sure it's 100% it won't be launched till the new year now.

Shookz DJ Workshops 2012

Shookz DJ Workshops 2012, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

You've been waiting a long time but now they are here again. We are very happy to welcome back the SHOOKZ Dj workshops to the Drop Inn, this time with resident DJ's Patchwerk and Skairpigg running some sessions. Workshops start 27th September and run for 8 weeks, 7pm every Thursday.

Skatepark Edit Designs

skatepark_design005, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Here are one of the proposed designs for the Belper Skate park.

Once everyone is happy and settles on a design we can start pricing up how much the upgraded park will cost, then start trying to raise the money for it.

Future Home Scape - TD*

Andrea attended a Future Homes *Team Development day. The day was about each team developing a business plan for a project for one of the few selected charities. Andrea had to go in to give the team facts and figure of The Drop Inn but couldn't directly help or influence the business plan.
The team that presented the best plan would win £1000 toward the charity the business plan was designed for. The day was set up very similar to Dragons Den.

It was a lot of fun through out the day. The team that presented plan for the Drop Inn came in 2nd place. However the Dragons (or equivalent) decided it was such a good plan, they gave the Drop Inn £1000 for development anyway. So a huge thank you to the team who presented for us and a big thank you to Future Home Scape for the donation - what a brilliant way of donating to charities!

Charity Boxes - 12 / 9 / 12

We have collected a total of £28 over a couple of months from the Charity box at the Cross Keys. Thank You all who have donated.

Now we have put new ones at The George and Dragon and the Tavern, please look out for them.

Each month one of our volunteers will go round and collect them all up, hopefully it will be a constant small steam of donated money which will help us with the Di-bar stock for drinks and snacks and all the other little essential things that soon amount up.

Re-open's

We are re-open after a short summer break. During closure we had been working on 2 different arts projects but didn't have the staff capacity to open regular nights due to staff holidays.

Leonard Cheshire - Fun Day

Family Fun day in Alfreton, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We put supplied a sound system and some entertainment for the Leonard Cheshire Care Homes Family Fun Day.

The entertainment was al organised by YP Luke Baker and Volunteer Ant Baker from the Drop Inn.

It was a brilliant day with loads of great entertainment, refreshments and fun games to get involved in.

We would love to return and help out for future events, Thank You for inviting us along.