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Spa Grand Hall - latest picture
This image of the work at the Spa Grand Hall (see below) was taken on 04 Aug 10.
Open Air Theatre Up and Running
Several large scale events have now filled the newly renovated Open Air Theatre - this is Ian Grundy's image of the audience watching the José Carreras / Kiri Te Kanawa concert. As you can see he didn't have a ticket !
Spa Complex Renovation
This image shows the stage area of the Grand Hall
The current renovation of the Spa Complex, which is funded by £4.2 million from Yorkshire Forward and £2.2 million from Scarborough Council, is focussed on the Grand Hall and the Long Bar.
The Grand Hall's stage area is being enlarged and access lifts are being added for stage sets.
The Long Bar will have its floor raised to the level of the external walkway outside to allow for doors to open on to a terrace. This area will also include a restaurant.
* Please note all other areas of the Spa Complex are open with a full programme of performances throughout the Summer. *
Caretaker's Cottage
Images copyright Doug Kendall, Project Manager, Scarborough Borough Council
Open Air Theatre - Update
The Forum for Tourism, one the Renaissance Action Groups, was given a tour of the renovated 6,500 seat Open Air theatre which was opened by HM the Queen on Thursday 20th May.
Work was been completed ahead of schedule with the handover to Apollo Leisure being brought forward by two weeks.
Between June 11th and July 11th a large LED screen showed diverse events ranging from the Glastonbury Festival, Formula One Racing and World Cup football - all for free.
The official opening night on July 23rd featured Jose Carreras and Kiri de Kanawa. This was followed by a 1980's Rewind Festival on July 31st with Boy George and Paul Young.
Thanks to the North Bay Railway for hosting this event for the Forum for Tourism and Apollo for their informal presentation and tour of the site.
CHART
In a presentation to Town Team in March a new initiative for Scarborough was unveiled aiming to provide a physical and website-based map of the town’s current creative and cultural activities and cultural landmarks.
CHART (Culture, Heritage and Art in Scarborough) will also provide a trail people can follow to take them around Scarborough’s cultural highlights and information about the places identified on the map.
Open Air Theatre
The renovation of the Open Air Theatre in the North Bay continues.
Jose Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa and the Opera North Orchestra will appear on the opening night on Friday July 23rd.
The "1980's Rewind Festival" on Saturday July 31 will feature Boy George, Paul Young, and Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
The theatre, closed in 1985, will once again be Europe’s largest open air theatre with a capacity of 6,500 seats.
'Scarborough Together'
Click below for the (MS Powerpoint) presentation given to the February Town Team meeting. It features 'Scarborough Together' which is the Scarborough Urban Forum theme for 2010.
Click here . . .Local Development Framework
The Local Development Framework is the collection of local development documents produced by the Local Planning Authority which collectively delivers the Spatial Planning Strategy for its area (and ultimately replaces Local Plan 1999)
[Spatial planning is a process of place shaping and delivery which aims to produce a vision for the future of places that responds to local challenges and opportunities, based on evidence, a sense of local distinctiveness and community derived objectives.]
This was a presentation to the January 2010 Town Team meeting.
'Great Town' award
Scarborough has won the 'Great Town' Award in the annual Academy of Urbanism awards.
'Renaissance News' (December / January) includes coverage of the event.
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As at 10 Aug 2010 the group currently shows 249 photographs from 26 group members
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Scarborough North Bay
As at 10 Aug 2010 the group currently shows 178 photographs from 23 group members
Scarborough North Bay GroupPicasa Web Albums
Scarborough's Future Picasa web albums are a large collection of pictures taken during the town's Renaissance over the last five years.
There are no copyright restrictions.
Currently the albums are :-
* Private Sector Investment
* Scarborough Business Park
* Wood End Creative Workspace
* Boxing Day
* Five Year Re-Union
* Royal Visit
* Thundercats
* Sandside Redevelopment
* Rotunda
* Shared Space
IAP2 Project of the Year
IAP2 is an international association of members who seek to promote and improve the practice of public participation in relation to individuals, governments, institutions, and other entities that affect the public interest in nations throughout the world. IAP2 carries out its mission by organizing and conducting activities to:
* Serve the learning needs of members through events, publications, and communication technology;
* Advocate for public participation throughout the world;
* Promote a results-oriented research agenda and use research to support educational and advocacy goals;
* Provide technical assistance to improve public participation.
The 2009 Core Values Awards winners were announced on September 21st during the 17th Annual IAP2 conference in San Diego, California, USA.
The 'Project of the Year' Winner is Scarborough Renaissance Partnership, United Kingdom. The 'Project of the Year' Core Values Award is given to projects that have achieved a definable outcome. The project must have been completed or have significant phases of the project completed.
The next 5 years of Renaissance in Scarborough
The next 5 years of Renaissance in Scarborough in a presentation of the Investment Management Plan made to the Town Team 15 Sep 09
What do YOU think ?
So what do you think of the presentation ?
If you are a Facebook member use the link below to add your comments to the Renaissance page.
Street Angels
The link below is to the YouTube video which impressed many Town Team members at the July meeting.
Street Angels are volunteers out on the street late on a weekend night to be there for people when they're needed. Streets Angels are a visible presence on the streets helping to improve the safe...
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Well we did it!
We were on our way to Prague to take part in a two day conference celebrating the very best of enterprise and to see if we had been successful in the competition to find 'Europe's Most Enterprising Place'.
After a day of conference and a presentation to a good sized audience (we found it quite disconcerting speaking to people all wearing headphones – you wonder if they are listening to you, we were then taken to the Zofin Palace, a most beautiful building on Zofin Island in the middle of the river Vlata that runs through the centre of the city. The 18th century building constructed by Vaclav Novotny and named after Princess Sofie who was the mother of Emperor Frantisek Josef was built as a cultural centre in the classic Neo Renaissance Style. Highly suitable for the Scarborough team.
It had seen some pretty great performers throughout history with performances from Liszt, Berlioz and Wagner - it was now Scarborough's turn. The dinner proceeded with awards being given to some very strong competition from the likes of a science park in Sweden, a project from Belgium to engage the young entrepreneur and an impressive Polish project in a formerly depressed rural area making the most of its rich cultural heritage. Right at the end when we were wondering why we had been given such a prominent table and thinking that all the awards had been made and we were to go home empty handed, the announcement was made of the Grand Jury Prize – and yes it was Scarborough.
We were elated.
Our small group was then invited up onto the stage to receive the award. This was a prize for the town and the region, and a big thank you to all those of you who have been involved in the programme of activity that has allowed us to deliver this wonderful renaissance of Scarborough. On a humbling note however one element struck me. We were a small group of English people in the middle of Europe. Foreign tongues were obviously spoken everywhere but all of the business was conducted in English.
From Nick Taylor - Renaissance Manager
Scarborough - the most enterprising town in Europe - what difference will this make to Scarborough and the area?
• Most importantly it will raise the awareness of the town throughout the rest of the country and Europe.
• It will give us a superb opportunity to get into the national media.
• It will allow local companies and organisations to make the point that they are from the most enterprising place in Europe which adds to their competitiveness. Dozens are already using the fact we are the best in Britain.
• It will be supportive to those who have invested in their businesses and aim to bring more economic activity into the town. This in turn will promote more jobs and help the viability of the town.
• The take up of the available land on the business park will improve, again bringing more jobs to town.
• The investments being made in projects such as the Spa Complex will be made more worthwhile as the image of the town continues to improve bringing more conferences.
• Local companies and organisations will find recruiting people from the rest of the country easier as again the image is improved.
• Local businesses supplying the full range of ancillary services will be needed.
There will be many other reasons why this will be a benefit to our town and in the meantime we need stories of achievements, milestones and events. There are so many companies winning national accolades such as AWJ Group winning the Glass Company of the Year 2008/9 and Castle Employment being finalists in the ‘Best Small Recruitment Firm to work for’ at a national conference from within their business sector. There are many more stories such as these, coming from voluntary groups just as much as businesses, so please let us know and we can
Scarborough - the most enterprising town in Europe
** Scarborough has been named as the most enterprising town in Europe. **
In October 2008 the Scarborough Renaissance Partnership was named the enterprise capital of the UK beating competition from such cities as Nottingham and Plymouth - having already become the winner of Enterprising Britain 2008 for Yorkshire and Humberside. The Partnership then went forward (with 12 other nominees) to the European awards.
Final results were announced on May 13th at a ceremony in Prague. The winners of this annual event act as role models across the regions of Europe and provide excellent examples how to create environments where entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship can flourish.
The objectives of the awards are to:
· Identify and recognise successful activities that promote enterprise and entrepreneurship;
· Showcase and share examples of best entrepreneurship policies and practices;
· Develop a greater awareness of the role entrepreneurs play in society; and
· Encourage and inspire potential entrepreneurs.
From the final nominees 13 candidate regions were short listed for the 2008 awards covering entrepreneurship promotion, red tape reduction, enterprise support, investment in skills, and
responsible and inclusive entrepreneurship.
Short listed are :
1. Belgium 'A team of entrepreneurship awareness-raising workers', Agence de Stimulation Economique (Economic Stimulation Agency), Liège
2. Finland 'Knowledge, skills, support – from entrepreneur to entrepreneur', The Women’s Enterprise Agency, Helsinki
3. France' Gers Soho Solo project', Gers Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Gers
4. Germany - 'Unternehmergymnasium Bayern: Unternehmertum mit Abitur (Entrepreneurial Grammar School Bavaria: Entrepreneurship Education and School Graduation in one Go) ' ,
Unternehmergymnasium Bayern, Pfarrkirchen
5. Germany- 'Getting people into work', Waldkirch Employment and Qualification Company (WABE), Waldkirch
6. Hungary 'ANTI-BUREAU', Miskolc Holding Zrt., Miskolc
7. Lithuania 'Reduction of statistical reporting burden to respondents', Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian Statistics), Vilnius
8. Poland - 'Commune of Bieliny' – Our Power Spot, Commune of Bieliny, Bieliny
9. Poland - 'Pottery Village', the Nidzica Development Foundation (NIDA), Nidzica
10. Spain - 'Home support programme for entrepreneurs (PAED)', Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism of the Aragón Regional Government, Zaragoza
11. Spain - 'Instituto IDEAS', Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia
12. Sweden Gothia Science Park, Enterprise and Community Building Sector, Municipality of Skövde
13. United Kingdom - Scarborough Renaissance Partnership, Scarborough Renaissance Partnership, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
The Cinder Track - The Scarborough to Whitby Old Railway Line
This former railway line (it closed in 1965) runs from Scarborough to Whitby and a relatively even surface suitable for walking, cycling and horse riding. There are also a number of sections of the track with disabled access ramps.
In the Autumn of 2009, as part of a ‘Live Project’, a group of architecture students from Sheffield University worked with the other groups involved to develop a phased masterplan for future development of the line. One such group is The Friends of The Old Railway who are a group of local residents who have lobbied for improvements to the line and secured funding for initiatives to improve the line.
The website below records the project.
