Will it rain on the Shipley Shopper?
The big question for today, what's the weather going to be like for the Shipley Shopper launch tomorrow? Is it going to be dry with sunny intervals, as the forecast predicts, or wet and windy like we're experiencing now.
If dry everything should go off swimmingly, if raining, are we going to have clowns, balloons, face painters, donkeys and a street band entertaining the public in our studios? Could be a bit of a squeeze!
We're all looking forward to the launch though, confident its going to be a success, and that the people of Shipley will come to love the ewe sat on a bench, with her handbag and shades. More news and pictures of that next week.
On a more prosaic note, a reminder today that work in a community arts and crafts centre isn't all statues, artists and crafts people; there's also the accounting processes to keep up to date. (As if we really needed a reminder!)
So this morning we had a visit from the essential Dave Collins, local community accounting support worker.
Over the years KS&W has grown from being a mainly drop in facility with funding from a few sources, to the complex organisation that it is today; running outreach workshops around the Bradford district and working with the community to produce stunning pieces of public art, as well as running courses and being available for people to work on their own here.
All that complexity means that our financial systems have to constantly evolve to keep up with the type of work we get involved in. It was brilliant to have Dave here to help us stand back from the day to day running of the accounts and take a good look at what we're doing and how we can improve things.
Tomorrow though will be all about celebrating the Art, something we perhaps don't get the space do enough of.
If dry everything should go off swimmingly, if raining, are we going to have clowns, balloons, face painters, donkeys and a street band entertaining the public in our studios? Could be a bit of a squeeze!
We're all looking forward to the launch though, confident its going to be a success, and that the people of Shipley will come to love the ewe sat on a bench, with her handbag and shades. More news and pictures of that next week.
On a more prosaic note, a reminder today that work in a community arts and crafts centre isn't all statues, artists and crafts people; there's also the accounting processes to keep up to date. (As if we really needed a reminder!)
So this morning we had a visit from the essential Dave Collins, local community accounting support worker.
Over the years KS&W has grown from being a mainly drop in facility with funding from a few sources, to the complex organisation that it is today; running outreach workshops around the Bradford district and working with the community to produce stunning pieces of public art, as well as running courses and being available for people to work on their own here.
All that complexity means that our financial systems have to constantly evolve to keep up with the type of work we get involved in. It was brilliant to have Dave here to help us stand back from the day to day running of the accounts and take a good look at what we're doing and how we can improve things.
Tomorrow though will be all about celebrating the Art, something we perhaps don't get the space do enough of.


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