Setting up 18 studios, Long Eaton, Nottingham

Southwell Artists were able to donate £1000 to SightSavers www.sightsavers.org/, whilst a local charity Southwell Care Project www.southwellcare.org/ also benefitted from the open studios event as their volunteers provided tea and cakes, raising another £1000. What a warm feeling inside. As I couldn’t get to the studios last week I posted keys to a new licensee (who is local). I had gone through h & s and various proceedures so I thought this would be the sensible option. The problem is the post has been badly affected too and the keys only arrived yesterday. Anyway, John Cooke has been v patient and will move in at the weekend. I showed an artist from Long Eaton around the studios this week who had never heard of HMS. He is now on the waiting list. When we set up HMS I didn’t realise how many practioners would be within spitting distance of the studios.