Things are heating up now and the Eco-Team recently met to agree the Action Plan as we work towards the Eco-Centres Award. The great thing about the award is that it does not expect you to be ‘Eco-Perfect’ from day one. We are all on a journey and...
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Looking for a Dean Court Community VIP aged 5 to 18
Dean Court Community Centre will be opening its doors very soon, and this will be celebrated by a fantastic opening weekend on April 5th and 6th 2014. We would like to find a very special Dean Court child who has made an amazing contribution to...
Have you got ideas as bright as these walls?
We need to fill the fantastic space with groups of like minded Dean Court residents sharing interests and enjoying themselves. Do you know home workers who miss the gossip of the office and would like to set up a weekly coffee break...
Have you got ideas as bright as these walls?
We need to fill the fantastic space with groups of like minded Dean Court residents sharing interests and enjoying themselves. Do you know home workers who miss the gossip of the office and would like to set up a weekly coffee break...
Community Centre this way!
I was stopped dead in my tracks by an amazing sight as I came home last night. It wasn't the beautiful night sky. It wasn't the incredible collection of rubbish on the verges of Pinnocks Way (now no more, thanks to Naomi's litter picking team!). It...
Calling all litter pickers
The completion of the new Community Centre seems a good time to get together to clean the area up a bit. If anyone would like to join us for a litter pick, we will be gathering outside the Community Centre on Sunday 9th February at 2pm. All...
It’s a Community Centre!
Good news, Dean Court! A Community Centre has been built... It is my great pleasure to announce that yesterday, at around 10am, after 9 months of growing and many, many hours of pain and huffing and puffing(!), practical completion of the building...
Allow me to introduce….
…our orange room. But, as you can see, it is orange on one wall only which makes it distinctive but not overwhelming! This is the second largest room in centre, is rectangle in shape, has lots of light and a door that opens on to the ‘back...
Shall we dance?
It’s been about ten days since my last visit to the site to tie up some lose ends with the Environmental Review that we are completing as we work towards the Eco-Centres Award. The much anticipated “semi-sprung” floor is in and doesn’t it look...
Wow!
"Wow" is what you'll say when you see how the new centre is shaping up. The contrast with the site immediately after the fire and now is amazing. If the pleasure of having a look in the building was not enough, I then had the pleasure of being with...