Grand Pavilion Planning Meeting

Over the weekend the trustees had a planning meeting to sort out our structure for the coming months and years.

Having taken on the lease, in the expectation that we would not be able to do much with the building, we have found that we can use it. We have now had two extended events in the building and are planning three more this year. We hope to have lots of events next year!

The structure, that we agreed18 months ago, cannot cope with this change and we need to re-organise ourselves to deal with the running of a living building! We are likely to have an overall management group that will oversee everything and then a series of smaller committees to oversee the individual tasks that need to be done.

As the days go by I will do further Blog postings with more details.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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Rolls Royce Helping the Grand Pavilion

Ten Rolls Royce executives are helping The Grand Pavilion to reach their goals. They are helping to formulate a plan that will get the Grand Pavilion used more, in the time before a full restoration is able to be started.

The ten picked the Grand Pavilion project from nearly a dozen different community projects. This is part of their management training course, which includes a community project as part of the curriculum. They are currently looking at the different revenue streams that the Grand Pavilion can gain. From this they will make recommendations as to what improvements to the building should be prioritised first, to bring the greatest benefits to the overall project.

This is a massive help to us as they are devoting time and energy to a subject that will help to make our project successful in the short term. In deciding what we can and can’t do, with the building now, we will be able to look at potential bookings as a real opportunity. Currently we are just doing what is necessary to meet the next booking’s requirement. We then have to hope that we will get another similar booking, that will help to justify what we have spent.

Five of the group (pictured) came over to talk to us and they now have a clear idea of what we are looking for. We have a good idea of how they can help us.” Gregor continued; “we hope that this relationship will build and that they will gain, as much as we already have, from our relationship together.

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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

Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk

 

Wirksworth Festival

A great weekend was had by all at the Wirksworth Festival. Numbers were up on last year and the weather was fantastic.

We were there with the stall again and this time we were down by the station. It was a bit quieter there tan up in the town centre, but we still had lots of visitors to the stall.

Trina did sterling work again and we also had other helpers.

Overall we signed up 40 new members and I feel sure that will get lots of forms back that we handed out.

Membership now stands at 1370. We have only lost 5 so far as people renew. There are still some who are a bit late though!

Gregor

N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd

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

Support out vision: www.thegrandpavilion.co.uk