Nick Hurd Minister of Civil Society was made welcome at The Drop Inn to see the amazing Derbyshire Volunteer Passport scheme which is the BIG society in action.
Minister hails Belper youth project as ‘fantastic’ - Local News - Matlock Mercury
Friday, 23 March 2012
Saved By Grant
The Drop Inn had a very bad financial start to 2012 with problems that had occurred the year before resulting in the organisation unable to find sustainable funding.
The refurbishment's were part of raising the profile again in a hope to attract some potential sponsorships or new funders. It was working really well and still is, but it wasn't a quick enough turn around, so unfortunately the centre faced even more financial troubles and it was looking at some desperate and emergency fundraising events.
We had to raise 6,000 by the end of April. We knew we were in real trouble, but have got loads of things in the pipeline which once up and running will never see the organisation in the same trouble again.
Andrea approached Belper Town Council for some funding, please follow the link below to see what was said:
Drop Inn centre saved after grant - Local - Belper News
A BIG Thank You is in order to Belper Town Council for helping us out and supporting us!
Thank You from al The Drop Inn Team
The refurbishment's were part of raising the profile again in a hope to attract some potential sponsorships or new funders. It was working really well and still is, but it wasn't a quick enough turn around, so unfortunately the centre faced even more financial troubles and it was looking at some desperate and emergency fundraising events.
We had to raise 6,000 by the end of April. We knew we were in real trouble, but have got loads of things in the pipeline which once up and running will never see the organisation in the same trouble again.
Andrea approached Belper Town Council for some funding, please follow the link below to see what was said:
Drop Inn centre saved after grant - Local - Belper News
A BIG Thank You is in order to Belper Town Council for helping us out and supporting us!
Thank You from al The Drop Inn Team
Sunday, 18 March 2012
New Charity Boxes
Look at our new charity boxes, there is a few general Drop Inn charity collection boxes and one 'safe rave' box. If you see them out in the community please make a kind donation. Thank You
Monday, 5 March 2012
Family Tree Blog Plans
We are re-branding and rebuilding our Family Tree blog, it's not been updated for years.
As well as updating all the volunteers, managers and people involved, we thought we would introduce some new features.
The New Drop Inn Tree blog will contain:
1. Generations - which will be a little story about how every 3-4 years the whole organisation has evolved and changed to cater for the need of each Youth generation.
2. Stories - this will be a section of the blog where you can read some of the most inspiring stories told by young people in our community.
3. Quote - this is like a memorandum section, where all the positive and some amusing negative things have been said about The Drop Inn over the years.
Click: Dropinntree
As well as updating all the volunteers, managers and people involved, we thought we would introduce some new features.
The New Drop Inn Tree blog will contain:
1. Generations - which will be a little story about how every 3-4 years the whole organisation has evolved and changed to cater for the need of each Youth generation.
2. Stories - this will be a section of the blog where you can read some of the most inspiring stories told by young people in our community.
3. Quote - this is like a memorandum section, where all the positive and some amusing negative things have been said about The Drop Inn over the years.
Click: Dropinntree
Thursday, 1 March 2012
DiBOX (Youth Open Mic)
The First Recording taken from The Drop Inn's first Youth Open Mic night.
This is the Second Sample recorded from later on in the night, using our loop pedal to build beats.
This is the Second Sample recorded from later on in the night, using our loop pedal to build beats.
Monday, 13 February 2012
Safe Rave rural exchange
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.
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.
Sunday, 12 February 2012
Website update
New new website template is looking really cool, there is more people involved in this next generation website.
This is how the new website will probably sound. It's a mini-mix created by 0perand (Pete Simpson)
The actual site won't be released till late April now, just in time for all the out reach / festival projects over summer hopefully.
This is how the new website will probably sound. It's a mini-mix created by 0perand (Pete Simpson)
The actual site won't be released till late April now, just in time for all the out reach / festival projects over summer hopefully.
Monday, 6 February 2012
DiBOX Promo
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
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
Saturday, 4 February 2012
New Bar New Manager
With the success of the new Di-Bar we have promoted Bradderz one of the Young volunteers who used to attend the centre as a youth has become a Bar Manager! He step into a volunteer role after turning 18, now he is the head of the youth committee and also responsible for the running of the Di-Bar.
Well Done Brad, we are proud of you!
Well Done Brad, we are proud of you!
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