New Pavilion Window on the Stage

<<2011 December 25th Christmas 001.jpg>> One of the windows in the old
Tourist Information Centre has been dressed up to be a Theatre Stage
Window.
We will be using it to advertise all the events that we will be putting
on in the future. With the Curtains, it looks like a little stage and
should have a dramatic effect on those walking by.
Thanks to Charles Beresford for the idea and Deebs Judd for the
handiwork!
Look out for our future events as you pass by the Pavilion!
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
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Carols, Quizzes and Winster Guisers

A great night was had by all at the Temple Hotel on Friday. We had a good take-up for the quiz night and it was tough! Some teams only got half the questions right!

The rounds of the quiz itself were indispersed by carols. Nick the Vic arrive with a Pave the Pav T-Shirt!

Due to the weather – it snowed a lot that night – the Winster Guisers arrived quite late and only came on at around 10.30. This gave time for the bar to fill up!

We raised a little money, but it proved to be a great start to the Christmas festivities.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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Anthony Radford visits the Grand Pavilion

Today I showed Anthony Radford, the Arts and Venues Manager of Chesterfield Borough Council, around the Grand Pavilion and talked about our plans.

He was impressed with the building and our enthusiasm to make it into a venue for Music and the Arts. I got the expected “Wow” when he saw the ballroom!

We have an issue here in that Chesterfield is only 11 miles from Matlock Bath and has the Pomegranate and the Winding Wheel. There is good scope for competition once the Grand pavilion is open. This would not be helpful to either side.

What we agreed was to work together and to look for ways of making mutually beneficial links, both before the Grand Pavilion opens and afterwards.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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See Kylie Pentelow's Piece

The link to the East Midlands Today Programme is below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b017gd1k/?t=14m58s

Kylie’s piece on The Grand Pavilion is about half way through.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Kylie Penelow's Piece Broadcasts Today

The television slot, recorded last Friday, was broadcast this evening and looked really good.

Kylie included clips from Charles Beresford, Ken Smith and Sue Bliss as well as Geoff Stevens from Derbyshire Dales.

She really got across what a great building it is and how we need to save it.

Thanks to all of you who came to help in making the piece and I hope we can have it available online for everyone to see again.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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Amazing Amazon

Andie Brazewell did his talk on the Amazon last night and put on a great show! We had a good audience and signed up eight new members on the night.

The talk incorporated slides; lights; special effects; and sound, which made it a real night of entertainment; not just a talk!

We had a bit of a crisis, before it all started, because Charles Beresford’s computer could not create the sounds; which would have been a disaster! Fortunately I had my computer, we loaded the slideshow, and it all worked OK.

Today we have shown 14 members round the Pavilion – doesn’t it get dark early!

Friends group membership now stands at 828.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Kylie Pentelow Comes to the Grand Pavilion

It was great to see Kylie in Matlock Bath. She was filming a piece for Tuesday evening at 6.30pm. This is part of a series that she is doing on Lost Heritage.

She was enormously impressed by the building and what we are doing to try to preserve it. There was a big “wow” as she rounded the corner and first saw the Ballroom.

A number of key players in our campaign gave interviews including Charles Beresford, Andie Brazewell; Ken Smith and India Davies (pictured), who won the junior prize in our picture competition, right back in February 2010 when we had just started our campaign.

So look out for the piece on Tuesday

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Matlock Bath Fell Race

The Fell Runners Association have organised a fell race on Tuesday the 24^th of April 2012 in aid of the Grand Pavilion.

There will be more information for members towards Christmas, but it will be an interesting event to go and watch; and maybe even join in!

More soon.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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University of the Third Age

Today I attended the University of the Third Age's Theatre Group meeting. I had been invited to speak about The Grand Pavilion and I was given three quarters of an hour!

The speech went well and sparked a lot of interest among the audience, with far more questions than I could answer in the time available.

We signed up eight members of the Friends of the Grand Pavilion and will get more back in the post; from forms that people took away with them.

Currently membership stands at around 810.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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New Events Booked Until April

We have now got a programme of events for the first three months of Next Year.

All these events will start at 7.30 prompt and will be at The Temple Hotel in Matlock Bath. They will be free to members and guests will be charged £5.

On the 14^th of January we have Simon Groom presenting a selection of short documentary films that he has made recently. He will talk about how he made each film and then project it. The films will include “The Flying Scotsman”, “The Roundhouse”, “Alison Uttley”.

This will be followed on the 17the of February by Gerry Kreibich’s incredible show – music and humour. Follow this link for an idea of what it may be like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1kAmU-aZJM

Pollyanna Pickering will follow this on the 30^th of March, with a talk on either her art or her wildlife conservation work.

I do hope you can make some of these events. I’m sure that you will enjoy them.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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New Website is Launched

The Friends of The Grand Pavilion has now launched its new website: http://www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk/

This represents a significant change from the original website. There are a number of new features:

·         There is an events page that will be kept up-to-date with the monthly events that we are organising.

·         Where you need to buy tickets for an event you will be able to do this directly from the website.

·         The designs for the Grand Pavilion have their own page and a link to the detailed designs.

·         You can see this Blog, keeping you up-to-date with our latest news, on a separate page.

Do link to our new website and I hope you will enjoy following it.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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Cromford Mills

We have had a good two days at Cromford Mills, and will be back this coming weekend.

Above is a photo of Trina and Maureen, who did sterling work in helping.

We are doing another weekend starting on Saturday; if you can help please let me know on 0777 1717 086.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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Cllr Garry Purdey Helps Out

I have just received a cheque from Garry Purdey for £250. It comes from his County Council Discretionary Fund; which is designed to help local projects; such as ours.

This will cover ten nights room rental for future events that we put on. It guarantees our events for some time to come, which is great!

Next up in The Temple Hotel is Andy Brazewell; with his talk on the scientific trip to the Amazon, with 60 young people, that he completed this summer. That will be on the 18^th of November at 7.30pm.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Grand Pavilion Roadshow in Cromford Mill

A Jacobite Rebellion - The Charles Edward Stuart Society bringing history to life at Cromford Mills and we will be there with our stall! Pictured above.

Saturday 15th and Sunday 16^th from 9.00pm to 4.00pm at Cromford Mill, this re-enactment should be fun.

Would you like to come to help with this for an hour or two? Please let me know if you can make it.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Missing Flutist Changes Grand Pavilion Programme!

<<P1020278.JPG>> The Ashbourne Sinfonia concert programme had to be changed, at the last minute, because a flautist was stuck in the north of Scotland!
The concert was the second event, organised by the Friends of the Grand Pavilion, and had a good audience and made a great evening.
90 people gathered in The Members Room to share an evening of classical music at County Hall. The missing flautist, stuck in Inverness, caused a change to the programme resulting in pieces by Handel and Benda being dropped. As a result the audience listened to music from Mozart, JS Bach, Pachabel and Van Hal.
This has been the biggest event we have organised to date. It was pleasing that we got a handsome audience for the Sinfonia and we have made a good profit on the night, which will increase our funds.
Andie Brazewell will be the main attraction at the next event, on the 18th of November in the Temple Hotel. If we get the same size of audience then, we will fill the place!
Friends of the Grand Pavilion membership now stands at 732.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
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Face the Music

A tremendous event yesterday in Wirksworth, well done Andie and Ted. Top of the bill was Taste Buds, who put on a great show.

I was there with Grand Pavilion leaflets, getting a great response. It is amazing that our member from North Wales was back in Wirksworth for the weekend and enjoying the show.

This week we have put on 33 members making the total 708!

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Parallel Grand Pavilion

Matlock Musical Theatre provided a perfect first event for the Friends of the Grand Pavilion at the Temple Hotel. They sang a selection of songs from Le Miserable, South Pacific, West Side Story and many other musicals and performed them “in character”.

Having now passed 675 members, “The Friends….” will look to organise monthly events from now on. These evenings will reflect the type of events that could be organised, once the Grand Pavilion is opened; like a “Parallel Grand Pavilion”!

This was a fantastic event to start with, Matlock Musical Theatre put on a really professional performance. Particularly outstanding was John Kersey’s performance, as Fagin, of “Reviewing the Situation” from the musical: ‘Oliver!’

Offering a variety of events to members at reduced or no cost really gives something back to members of the Friends Group. The members have placed their faith in us by joining and paying a small annual subscription. We can organise these evenings because local performers are prepared to give their time for free and together can provide a good evening’s entertainment. The room hire was paid for with the help of Councillor Garry Purdey’s kind donation from his discretionary fund.

Next month, the 8th of October, we will have the Ashbourne Sinphonia at the Members Room in County Hall from 8pm. Tickets are available to members at only £5, with non-member £7.50 and £5 for Concessions. Please contact the Box Office on 01629 55088 or purchase directly from The Music Shop in Matlock or Scarthin Books in Cromford.

The following month, on the 18th of November, we will have a presentation by Andie Brazewell on his recent scientific tour of the Amazon with 60 young people. This will be at the Temple Hotel, Matlock Bath, starting at 7.30pm

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Chatsworth Players' run of "A Man for all Seasons"

The Chatsworth Players are putting on “A Man of All Seasons”.

As before, they’re offering a range of fabulous pre-show options, to make the evening with them really special. Make bookings as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. They already have so many advance reservations for the Gala Dinner on Friday evening that they’ve had to arrange another special treat to make sure that everyone can join in the fun – a black tie Champagne Dinner on the Saturday evening.

So, here are your Chatsworth options:

·         Tuesday October 11 – First night special. Drinks and buffet, followed by the show, £30

·         Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 – High tea followed by the show, £25

·         Friday 14 - Black tie Gala Dinner with wine, followed by the show, £45

·         Saturday 15 – Black tie Champagne Dinner, followed by the show, £45

·         Sunday 16 – Tour of Chatsworth House and gardens, followed by high tea and the show - £35

As always, there will be some tickets available for each evening for the performance alone – these cost £15.

And then, after their Chatsworth run, they have a new adventure. For the first time, and inspired by this amazing story, they will also be performing “A Man for all Seasons” in Sheffield Cathedral. What an appropriate and atmospheric venue in which to perform such a magnificent piece. They will be performing in the Cathedral for two nights – on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 October. The tickets cost £10.

To make reservations, just call Sylvia Jackson on 01629 810174. She asks you to send her a cheque to cover the cost of your tickets (payable to Chatsworth Players), together with a stamped, addressed envelope. She will then send you your tickets by return post.

They’re all looking forward so much to entertaining audiences in October, it’s going to be truly wonderful!

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Members in Buxton!

I never thought that we would sign up members in Buxton. With all the facilities there, the Opera House and their Pavilion, we thought that we would not find anyone; who would be that concerned to support us in Matlock Bath.

Well tonight I have just signed up two members from Buxton!

I was at the RNIB fashion show in Cromford Mill and signed up six people, two from Buxton!

Membership now stands at 561.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Friends Group Membership Continues to Rise

551 Members!

Currently I’m in Bonsall and tonight I will visit a Fashion Show in Masson Mill and erect the stall.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Ashbourne Sinfonia

The second event we are organising will be a concert by the Ashbourne Sinfonia in the Members Room of Derbyshire County Council (View a video of the Members Room here (opens in a new window)) Smedley Street, Matlock on Saturday the 8th of October at 8pm. Tickets will cost £7.50 with members and concessions paying £5. Accompanied under 18s will be allowed in free. What will be played will be pieces from Handel, Mozart, Benda and Vanhall.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Events for Members

We always said that, once we had reached 500 members, we would organise events near to the Pavilion to show what the Pavilion could do; once it was fully open.

The first event will be Matlock Musical Theatre performing an evening of music from the shows that they have put on in the past. It will be on Friday the 23rd of September at the Temple Hotel, Matlock Bath between 7.30 to 9.00pm. Afterwards members, who want to stay, can retire to the bar!  Members will be able to attend for free, although there will be a charge for non members.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Grand Pavilion Membership Reaches 500

The Friends of the Grand Pavilion has now reached a significant goal; it has passed 500 members. When the Friends Group was launched The Grand Pavilion Ltd said that, if it reached 500, we would start to put on events around the Grand Pavilion; to show what the building could do. We have now started to organise these events.

“We have achieved this membership number earlier than we expected, and it is pleasing that the reaction on the door carries on being positive; the further we go from Matlock Bath. Currently we are in Bonsall and people are just as enthusiastic about the project as they were in Matlock Bath

Nearly 200 of our members are from Cromford, on no less than four roads in Cromford: Intake Lane, Castle View Drive, Derby Road and Cromford Hill, we have more than 25 members. We now have over 20 members in Bonsall and nearly 70 members in Matlock.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Family Fun Day at Bakewell Showground

Yesterday I was at the Family Fun Day and Dog Show at Bakewell Showground. This was organised by the High Peak Pony Club. It was a bit of a disaster for membership, one big zero, but there was interest and there may well be members coming in by post as a result.

Today I have starting knocking on doors in Bonsall. Great reaction and a number of members.

Membership now stands at 489. 11 more and we will be 500!

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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A Draft Lease Arrives At Last!

At last, after 6 months of waiting, we have a draft lease. It has a number or errors; it even has our name wrong!

Today I’ve been off to discuss it with our solicitor – who is working for us for nothing.

Hopefully we can get it in place by the 24^th of September, when the quarterly rents are now due. This gives us the chance to pay the insurance that we will need to have in place at the time of taking over the lease.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Membership now up to 471

I’ve been away for a while (see photo) so things have been a bit slow. However memberships are continuing to come in apace, we have also been busy with events at Cromford and Matlock Bath.

This week I will be in Bakewell at the Family Fun Day and Dog Show. Come and see us here.

Gregor                                                                          

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Bonsall Carnival

We had a lovely day in Bonsall yesterday. If only we had arrived a bit earlier; I turned up at 1pm only to discover that the carnival had already started! There was a mad dash to get the stall erected and of course there was no parking left nearby. You can imagine me on that hot afternoon lugging the stand over to the recreation ground and setting it up.

Helen and Charles arrived soon after that and we ran a well organised stall. In the end we had a good afternoon and signed up seven people. This brings the total new members for the week to 33.

Membership now stands at 455!

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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New Banner Unveiled

I’ve been out in Cromford, Intake Lane area, today and met some interesting people; I’ve met the couple who owned the house next to ours in Upperwood Road and remembered all our neighbours, both old and new; I also met someone who worked with my wife Penny and kept her horse in a field in a field near our fields; small world!

We now have a banner (pictured) organised by Andie and used for the first time when we had the festival fundraiser in the Fishpond.

Membership now stands at 422.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Membership Passes 400!

We now have 412 members!

Today we appeared at the “Sheldon Day” and had a great afternoon. We had a lot of interest and signed up six members. Sheldon is near Ashford-in-the-Water and therefore near the boundary of the area that we regard as our natural audience. As a result we were expecting a few people to show less interest in The Grand Pavilion; this was not a problem, all bar one were enthusiastic.

We appeared with Robin and Max from the Mining Museum and this worked well.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Fishpond Event

We have had a great event in the Fishpond. I have no idea how many bands were there, but the recently repainted building was “positively humming”.

We had the stand as you can see from the photo. As usual we signed up a few people. More important we made some more useful contacts and carried on building our relationship with the new owner of the Fishpond.

We are now at 395 members – more soon!

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Highfields - Schools Will Rock You

We have just finished our three evening stint at the “We Will Rock You” at Highfields School. The whole event was sold out, that means more than 650 tickets sold! It was a fantastic performance and really showed what 17/18 year olds can do. Of particular note were Chris Woods, Louise Wallwork, Rose Laud, Luke Marsden, Tristan Kawalek and Meg Woods, who played the leading roles really professionally. I hope we can persuade them to do a performance for our members in the near future.

We had the stall open at the beginning, the interval and as people left. We got a lot of interest and signed up some members. Thanks to Trina, Sue, Helen and Janet for their help.

We are now at 382 members – more soon!

Gregor

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Membership Motors Past 360!

After a successful weekend we are now at 361 members – more soon!

Gregor

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Nigel Mills MP meets the Grand Pavilion

Amber Valley’s MP Nigel Mills met the Grand Pavilion this weekend in Ambergate Carnival. I showed Nigel the displays of how the building will look once it has been converted and explained how the group will raise the necessary funds.

Afterwards Nigel said; “The group really have a super plan for the building, it will provide a fantastic resource for Amber Valley; being so close to the edge of the Borough. I can see people from as far as Ripley. Belper and Alfreton visiting the building to attend concerts and the theatre; as well as some of the many other events that the building can support.”

It is great to have Nigel’s support for our project. Although the Grand Pavilion is just outside Amber Valley, we see the Grand Pavilion as a venue for both Borough and Derbyshire Dales District. The Grand Pavilion is nearer, to most people living in both, than any other venue and it has such good transport links. With Nigel’s support we now have both local MPs helping the campaign. I will shortly be showing Nigel round the building and discussing the proposals in detail.

Gregor

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Regional Growth Fund Application Submitted

The Grand Pavilion Ltd has just submitted its Regional Growth Fund application for the Second Round.

We have applied for £1m, which is the minimum amount allowable. This rule has made it difficult for us, as we are not going to create a large number of jobs directly. We will however protect a large number of jobs in Matlock Bath and create some more jobs, in the community, from our development. The total comes to 207.

This may create the conditions, whereby we can be taken seriously, but these grants will have to be the “tipping point”; whereby they make a project happen. Since we have not got any successful grant yet, this condition cannot be shown to have been met. I don’t therefore want to raise hopes that we will be successful, from this round, and expect that we will have to get closer to our goal, by having applications to other funding bodies accepted, before we have a successful application from the RGF.

Gregor

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Highfields Visits the Grand Pavilion

Eddie Wilkes visited the Grand Pavilion today to see what we are doing and to offer support. Eddie is the new headmaster of Highfields School.

The Grand Pavilion is very keen to work with Highfields, particularly as it is specialising in the Performing Arts. We talked about communicating with the school at all levels and working together both before the Grand Pavilion is able to re-open and after.

Before the Grand Pavilion is open we can provide a venue for students to perform as we organise events for members. This may include classical and other music concerts, as well as work with drama and dance groups. The idea being that The Friends of the Grand Pavilion would provide an audience from the community for performers from the school; to give them practice in performing in front of a real audience.

Once the Grand Pavilion is open we could carry on that process on the same or a bigger scale, using either the “Grey Room” or the Ballroom. We could also provide a venue for larger educational events, where the school is unable to offer adequate seating capacity on site.

We hope to carry on building this relationship.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Visit from the HLF

We have had a very interesting visit from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HFL).

 

Charles, Mark and I met Des Gallagher and Lesley Owen-Jones this morning. We showed them around the Grand Pavilion and shared our vision. In response they were positive about the proposals, but made it clear that the competition is quite steep!

 

Particular areas that we need to be attentive to are those of:

·         what we can do to assist education of young people, particularly in the area of heritage,

·         producing a heritage plan for the building,

·         showing much more clearly how we will be working with the other tenants in the building.

 

We will be submitting a proposal shortly, for creating a Heritage Center in the old Tourist Information Centre. This can be created quite quickly; more about this later. We can then move on to the main application, by which will time we will have build up a closer relationship with  the HLF.

 

Gregor

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Pavilion Roadshow in Bakewell and Whatstandwell

We have had a lovely day in Bakewell and Whatstandwell! The sun shone all day and we have talked to dozens of people.

The stand in The Bakewell Carnival was the fist using the new table and gazebo and this really helped in the blazing sun. My head was not burnt at all!

At The Whatstandwell Festival, we just used the new table and that worked fine in the evening sun. The music was good and there was a lovely crowd.Overall we signed up 12 members over the day, taking us up to 324 overall.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
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Grand Pavilion Roadshow

During the summer we are appearing at a number of events in the villages around Matlock Bath. We will erect the stall, which many of you have seen, and tell people about the Pavilion. So far we have been to Starkholmes, Cromford and Darley Dale.

The next Roadshows are below:

· Bakewell Carnival in the Bakewell Recreation Ground on Sat 2^nd July from 12noon to 5pm

· Whatstandwell Festival Hankin Farm, New Road. On Sat 2^nd July from 5.30pm to 9.00pm

· Ambergate Carnival, Recreation Ground. On Saturday 9^th July from 11.00am to 4.30pm

I will have the stand on the 2^nd and will move from one event to the other, as the Bakewell event ends, so timings may be slightly out.

Would you like to come to help with this for an hour or two?

I’ll take some photos!

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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Membership Crosses 300 line!

The Friends of the Grand Pavilion has now motored past the 300 mark. With 306 members as of today.

The stall was out in the Darley Dale Fun Day last Sunday and helped to pile on the members. Thanks to Trina and Sue and their helpers, we now have members in Darley Dale and Two Dales.

This means that we have put on another hundred members; in just a month!

Overall Matlock Bath still has “just a head” over Cromford with over one hundred each. The other hundred members are spread throughout the towns and villages around Matlock. We do however have four members from outside Derbyshire, one from as far away as Hertfordshire!

If you are still thinking about joining, sign up now and help us to realise this impressive project.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

See out Progress: www.savethepavilion.co.uk &

Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk