DJ Workshops 2011 update

The Dj workshops are going even better than the ones run lat year. There is loads of new young people Dropping in to have a go.
This time round there is a broader range of ability. The two resident Youth DJ's who were on the last DJ workshop round are now learning more advanced skills and also teaching the other young people the basics of Djing.

As before they are working hard towards a live broadcast on Kindafunkyradio.com which will be sometime in April!

10K Run Promo

10K Run Promo, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Becky Haige is running the Derby 10K run to raise some money for The Drop Inn Charity.
This is the first time someone outside the Drop Inn volunteer list has decided to do a fund raiser for us. It's very kind of Her, Thank You for thinking of us. Hopefully more people in future will thing of us when doing a Charity Fund raiser event.

Kindafunkyradio warehouse Party Promo

Kindafunkyradio warehouse Party Promo, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

The poster for The Kindafunkyradio warehouse party at The Drop Inn on the second of April. It's got a wicked line up, with DJ's traveling down from Manchester to play at our venue.

Jamjar Radio

Jamjar Radio Page Illustration, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

Our new website will eventually include an online radio broadcaster, called the Jamjar Radio.

It will be part of an Intergenerational Media Project.

We'll let you know when we start broadcasting!

New Website Pilot Launch

Projects Page Illustration, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

We have unofficially launched the website.

Which means the new design and generation of site is live and people can go on it, but we haven't promoted it and gone for an official launch yet.

We want feedback as to what people think of it so far!

Try it out: thedropinn.org

CLICK: Donate

We are adding a button on our new website called Click Donate, which will hopefully act as a small regular way of getting funds.

It should make it easier for people to sponsor fundraising events and make generous donating when we're trying to raise money for things.

We'll keep everyone updated for when it's up and running.

Skate Ramp for sale

We don't really want to part with it but the Skate ramp we built as a project last year that we cant afford the insurance for people to use it is getting in our way. Especially now we have loads of work being done toward the festival, and with other big projects coming up in the pipe line. Would anyone want to buy it for £600 or the nearest offer?

Band.it promo idea

Band.it promo idea, a photo by thedropinn on Flickr.

With the success and fun involved in the Tagged promo idea, which involves taking the Drop Inn stickers all over the world and Tagging different places.

This new idea called Band.its is about tagging people wearing the Drop Inn bands.

So hopefully soon we'll have a places promo game called 'Tagged' and a people promo game called 'Band.its'

Safe Rave domain name

We have brought the 'SafeRave.co.uk' and the 'SafeRave.com' domains ready for when we launch it's own site, planned for later this year.

New Building Plans

We have been offered a new building which is next to the JamJar (Our Band Practice Space).

The building is in a bad state and needs a lot of work doing to it. The plans would be to decorate it smart inside and use it for a dance studio, which would double back as a meeting room which we could hire out to the public.

We will keep you informed on our decisions whether to take this project on.