The Harris appoints a new fit-out and showcase contractor for the Harris Your Place project
Harris Your Place is a £16 million project set to restore and reimagine the Harris for 21st-century audiences as a community, cultural and learning space. When the new Harris opens in 2024, inventive blended displays will give access to remarkable collections. New spaces have been designed to activate curiosity and reflection and offer library services […]
Have your say on Wyre’s great outdoors
Wyre Council has launched their open space survey that contributes to the vision of Wyre as a healthy, happy and greener place. People who live and work in Wyre are being invited to help shape the planning and delivery of local public open space, also known as green infrastructure by completing a quick and simple […]
Harris Your Place Calls Out for Critical Friend and Project Advisory Group Members
Source: Harris Your Place
Harris Your Place is the ambitious project redefining the city of Preston, reinventing the Harris as a 21st-century community, cultural and learning space. Due to re-open in 2024, the Harris remains focused on delivering services to the local community. Following the Harris’ Community Empowerment Guidelines, two new opportunities have emerged to apply to become a […]
Festival investment reaps rewards for Morecambe
Morecambe’s Vintage by the Sea Festival generated more than £1.5 million for the local economy and attracted 45,000 people, a new report shows. As curators and producers Deco Publique enter the 10th founding year of the award-winning festival, they are sharing the many successes of the event which returned last September after a two-year Covid […]
Community donation pushes button on new Education Centre and Studio Theatre in Lytham
The Lowther Pavilion Theatre & Gardens are thrilled to announce a major donation that will see building work commence on the new Education Centre and Studio Theatre this summer. The Windmill Community Benefit Society are supporting the construction of the shell of the new Education Centre and Studio Theatre with a massive donation of £180,000 […]
Festival of Making 2023 dates revealed
The fifth edition of the National Festival of Making weekend will return to Blackburn, Lancashire on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of July 2023! 🎉 With a programme that combines art, manufacturing, making and communities, the festival weekend will present a participatory festival programme celebrating making in all its forms. The National Festival of Making is […]
National green energy firm reports record turnover and massive recruitment drive
National green energy firm MEG (Making Energy Greener) who have their HQ in Preston, has announced a record turnover of £6.2m in 2021, compared to £1.7m the year before, representing a 264% increase. This turn-over figure is also set to rise to £8.5m at the end of this financial year, which fits in with the […]