Pop-up Picturehouse: Vote for our Community Cinema!
Please visit http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/704 and vote for our Pop-up Picturehouse project. We’re a group of volunteers who want to take big-screen film out into communities, encouraging people to come and experience different types of films while making new friends and taking par
Hey Ho, let’s So!VolTech
We’re very pleased and excited to announce that the FREE tickets for So!VolTech – Social Media & Technology conference for the Voluntary Sector – are now available. The conference will take place on Saturday 19th November 2011 at Blackpool Central Library, Queen Street, Blackpool,
Check out Aunty’s connections!
On Wednesday night Aunty held the third in the series of Aunty Social Connected (or Blackpool Social Media Surgery). We had about 10 representatives from the voluntary sector in Blackpool come along and even though we were short on surgeons (thanks to @CazFisher74, @StephenMullen and Blu – wit
Pop goes the Workshop: Part 2
FREE Beadcraft workshop. Make bracelets, earrings, phone charms and keyrings. 2:30pm to 4pm at the Grundy Art Gallery, Queen Street, Blackpool. Suitable for all ages. Drop in at any time between 2:30pm and 4pm Facebook Event Page Here’s the event poster and photos from last week’s sessio
Pop goes the Workshop!
FREE Seaside Photo collage workshop. 2:30pm to 4pm, Saturday 20th August, at the Grundy Art Gallery, Queen Street, Blackpool. Suitable for all ages. See you there!
Aunty’s Tea Party – Project update
Hello Everyone! We’re having a little get together just to update everyone on what’s going on at Aunty Towers. We’re meeting at Claremont Park Community Centre, Claremont Road, Blackpool, at 6:30pm on Monday 15th August. Do come along and find out what’s happening or to volun
August Connected and future developments!
Announcing Aunty Social Connected Part 3! We have been hard at work since the second Connected event that took place last week arranging venues and dates for the next couple of evenings of social media. With that in mind we are pleased to be able to announce that the next Aunty Social Connected will
Aunty connects more organisations!
Last night Aunty held the second in the series of Connected events which once again proved a hit with our third sector community in Blackpool. We saw some people who had been at the last event come along again to continue to find out what they needed to know about social media as well as […]
Aunty HQ: Cocked, locked and ready to rock!
On Friday evening Aunty Social opened the new HQ at 25 Deansgate, Blackpool, FY1 3AU. We managed to secure an empty shop (due to be demolished for the Talbot Gateway project in November) through the Blackpool Culture Shops Programme run by Blackpool Council Arts Service. The agreement allows us
Knittaz with Attitude: Keep Blackpool toasty!
Sorry for the delay in posting, but we’ve had a busy, busy week at Aunty Towers! The second KWA stitch-up took place last Monday at Claremont Park Community Centre, Claremont Rd, Blackpool. Following the success of last month’s session, we were delighted to meet some more new faces to
Announcing Aunty Social Connected Part 2
We’re pleased to be able to announce (after a little delay) the second evening of social media for the third sector by Aunty Social. After the success of the first Aunty Social Connected event which we ran back in June we’ve listed to your feedback and set a date for our second event. Co
Put your marigolds on for Aunty!
Help us spring clean our new HQ and get launch tickets (including cake and cocktails): Aunty has secured a town centre venue through the Blackpool Culture Shops Project 2011 and needs lovely volunteers to make her HQ spick and span in time for the launch of the project on 8th July. If you are free [
Knittaz with Attitude: Straight outta Fair Isle…
Last night was the first Knittaz with Attitude (KWA) session at Claremont Park Community Centre, Claremont Rd, Blackpool. 22 knitwits came along to knit one, purl one and maybe drop one! Our knittaz either brought their own work or joined in with our yarnbombing project…part 1 making snuggly li
AuntySocial Connected (Part 1) a huge success!
Last Wednesday evening Aunty’s first “Connected” event took place at the Number 5 Cafe. For those of you who don’t know, Connected is our evening where we help third sector organisations get to grips with social networking and how it can help their organisation. On the night