Yarnbomb Trail: Goodness, gracious great balls of wool!
We’ve had a great response to our yarnbombing workshops and we’re nearly ready to go with the trail. Special mentions go out to the staff and students of Blackpool Sixth Form College who help a super knit-in on 19 July. As well as out hardcore knittaz from our group and pom-pom makers
Dance development apprenticeship opportunity
Following on from the success of the Blaze Ignite placement from June – November 2012, the Fylde Coast Dance Development Programme are pleased to announce a second Young Apprentice Placement. Fylde Coast Dance Development is looking for a young person aged 16-19 years to gain paid work experienc
Knittaz with Attitude: Monthly hook-up
The next Knittaz with Attitude is on Monday 7th January 2013 6pm to 8:30pm at Claremont Park Community Centre, Claremont Road Blackpool FY1 2QJ. More info here!
Aunty at Wordpool October/November 2012
Wordpool 2012 is Blackpool Council’s 6th Annual Festival of Words. The Festival is managed by Blackpool Council’s Arts and Library Services.Wordpool development and delivery is overseen by the Wordpool Steering Group, which includes representatives from strategic partners, Wordpool volunteer
Strictly Bollywood Diwali 2012…
The 9 Week Bollywood Dance Class Course that Blackpool, Wyre & Fylde has been waiting for is finally here. After the astounding success of Strictly Bollywood Summer 2010 due to popular request and demand Blackpool now brings you… Strictly Bollywood Diwali 2012 Classes start on Wednesday
LLP Inclusion Conference: Aunty’s trip to Birmingham
On the 19th and 20th June, we took a trip to the LLP (Lifelong Learning Programme) Inclusion conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. As a result of our Youth in Action project Pop Goes The Workshop, we had been invited to exhibit by the YIA coordinators at the British Coun
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
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 […]
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

