We held our first workshop of this second phase on Tuesday 22nd January here in the Imagination Lab at LICA.
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Funding Accelerator Updates
It’s been a busy two months since the project restarted, we’ve been spending the time catching up with our project partners as well as organising our launch event and planning next year’s workshops.
As a result of our excellent launch event we have now got a series of events planned for the first half of 2019, the first one being held on the 22nd January at the Imagination Lab in the LICA Building.
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Stage Two Launch Event
On Wednesday 28th November we held a launch event in Blackburn for the second stage of the HEIF funded Funding Accelerator project. We held the event in the Victorian Gallery at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, an open and inspiring space reminding us of all the innovative ideas which blossomed in the Victorian Age.
It was great to see familiar faces from our first cohort of partners on this project as well as many new faces hoping to bring their ideas to life for the benefit of their local communities.
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Why be involved?
Co-design for health and wealth Funding Accelerator is a HEIF funded project led by Professor Leon Cruickshank from Lancaster University.
The aim is for public, private, and third sector organisations to create projects in collaboration with Lancaster University to not only further research but also provide tangible benefits for their local community.
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Take Up Space Success!
One of our project teams – Jenna Gardner Head of Design at Blackburn College with Rebecca Johnson Arts and Heritage Manager at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery – successfully bid for funding to look at developing derilct space next to the museum into an open, multi-purpose, community area.
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