Friends of Gawthorpe

Charity No: 507451

Newsletter – November 2022

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2022 / 23 Programme

 

3rd – 5th 10th – 11th December   10.30 to 3.30pm	Victorian Christmas   We will have hand made crafts for sale made by our members.   There will be a raffle for a quilt made by members Frances and Kathleen   There will also be a dressed doll raffle.  The doll is donated by Gail.   The raffles will be held over the two weekends.  The draw will be held on the close of day on 11th December.   Thank you so much for the many hours spent making the quilt and the dolls clothes.
2023
March 21st	Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 16th May At 2pm   Tickets £3	Celebration of our gold anniversary                                               Photographs of past  Friends and events to be held in the school room on the top floor

We welcome handmade items to sell on the stall at the Victorian Christmas.   Vintage and antique textiles are also welcome if they are small, clean and in good condition.

 

50^th Anniversary

In 2023 The Friends of Gawthorpe will be celebrating our Gold - 50^th Anniversary.  We hope to make it a special year. 

Have you any photographs of events held by the Friends over the past 50 years?

 Are you willing to help?                                                                                                                                        

LCC – News from the Hall

Victorian Christmas at Gawthorpe

3 & 4 December, 10 & 11 December, 10.30 am – 3.30pm

Step back in time - to Christmas past.

Enjoy the Hall trimmed for the festive season, see the table set for Christmas Dinner; visit the Victorian kitchen meet the housekeeper to learn about festive fare. 

Enjoy the festive music and atmosphere; meet Father Christmas and enjoy the craft activities for the children. 

Find a special gift from the Friends of Gawthorpe and Gawthorpe Textiles Collection craft stalls.

Treat yourself to a hot drink from Coffee Vintage Co

All visitors pay entry to the Hall (last entry is 3.00pm).

Christmas past.

2023

 

The hall will reopen in 2023 on Wed 29 March to Sun 5 Nov 2023,

Opening hours - Wed to Sunday 12pm – 5pm,  the same as this year.

Gawthorpe Textiles News

 

Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, Lancashire, BB12 8UA
Tel. 01282 773 963. www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk

Staffing changes at GTC

Charlotte Steels, part time Director of GTC for the past 6 years is leaving to take up a fulltime post with Burnley Leisure and Culture. She is going to join the board of Trustees for the collection and has become a member of FoG, so looks forward to continuing to support the work of both organisations. Charlotte would like to thank all of FoGs members for the ongoing support that they provide for the collection.

The Director post is currently being advertised and details are available on the GTC website https://www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk/work-with-us

Christina Cope, volunteer, Charlotte Steels, Director and Rachel Midgley,

 Rachel Terry former curator of the collection is going to be re-joining the team in December as project funded collections officer on our new major Heritage Fund project to review and prepare the collection for relocation.

 Two further new trustees have been recruited to our Board – Fiona Ritchie who runs her own marketing and PR company and Linda Drury who has extensive experience of working with national charities at a senior level. For details of who all of our board members are visit  https://www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk/governance

Grants and Projects

We have begun rolling out our new Heritage Fund project Cherish the Past, Create for the Future to redisplay, review, digitise and develop the collection. Also to work with community artists to deliver programmes of public activity across the area. We were awarded £250k to undertake this work which will enable us to make significant improvements to both the public face and behind the scenes activity of the charity.

We were also successful in being awarded £127k from the Key Fund / Northern Cultural Regeneration Fund to facilitate the relocation of the stored collection to Northlight, a major redevelopment of a former textile mill complex in Brierfield. This relocation opens up significant opportunities for increasing access to the collection all year round and developing new partnerships and commercial ventures to support the ongoing care of the collection.

 

If you are interested in finding out Ways you can support the Textiles Collection please visit our website: https://www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk/support-us

www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk   -   What’s On  -  Events & Workshops https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/gawthorpe-textiles-collection-3288050358#_

National Trust

The Stockbrige Drive Gate House is being restored.  The National Trust are having a feasibility study done on the Great Barn to find out what work needs to be done.  The café may be turned into a second hand bookshop and a mobile café nearby.  

The volunteers have been working hard in the grounds keeping it all tidy.  Their honesty table of produce did well for its first year.  There was quite a range of produce available.  

 

We are looking forward to see lots of visitors during the Victorian Christmas event.

 

Best wishes to everyone for Christmas. 

Hoping we all have a successful 2023. 

           

Dianne