To give you an idea of what we can deliver, we’ve provided a few examples of previous projects. The images bring back some great memories for us, of the people we worked with, the overwhelming sense of joy and excitement the festivals and collective achievementsbrought.
Don’t get me wrong there were challenges along the way, but we overcame them and worked out solutions together to guarantee success.
We hope you too can feel some of the warmth, enthusiasm and positivity from the images we’ve provided. There’s a special kind of magic that happens when people work together to make positive change happen.
We’d like to acknowledge and give thanks to all the people, communities, partner organisations, amazing artists, and creative professionals, we worked with.
We couldn’t have done any of it without you!
Enjoy!
Kirkham Heritage Inspired Street & Lantern Festival
Workshops provided opportunities for individuals to explore and celebrate local heritage, whilst designing and create amazing lanterns. The engagement programme took place across a year, with targeted activities to promote inclusion, along with open workshops, including holiday activities for families to enjoy. This resulted in a spectacular festival of lanterns for the whole town to enjoy!
K For Kirkham Mural
The mural was co-designed through a high-quality community engagement programme, that resulted in a creative brief. The procurement process included representation from local businesses, the community and key partners to secure creative professionals who would deliver a high-quality contemporary artwork that would animate the high street.
Once Upon A Town – Ormskirk
This project was facilitated during the pandemic and included the development of a Virtual Museum for Ormskirk- a place where individuals could access the towns unique history by visiting different rooms and exploring their content. Exhibitions Included Ormskirk’s Community Partnership Town Centre Trail. Content provided by Ormskirk and District Family Heritage Society. Exhibitions by Skelmersdale College students and Ormskirk school children, focusing on their unique experience of covid.
Peep Into The Past
Positive Placemakers CIC were commissioned to to deliver the Kirkham Pilot High Street Heritage Action Zone Project for Kirkham. The aim was to raise awareness, delivery a high-quality cultural programme that would celebrate local heritage, build capacity and connect a community, while also animating the high street. Creating a better sense of place and ownership of the public realm, while delivering health and wellbeing opportunities.
Medieval Illuminated K For Kirkham
This project was planned to raise awareness of local heritage and promote pride of place, as well as attracting visitors to the high street. The K was inspired by medieval illuminated letters, which are highly decorative. The wider community and pupils from local schools were invited to illustrate Kirkham’s heritage using a letter K, during a programme of workshops facilitated by artist Maxine Lee Mackie. The K was then incorporated into a project celebrating the high street at Christmas.
Kirkham With Love
A programme co-designed and created with the local community, resulting in the delivery of a high-quality engagement activities, these included pop up events in local cafes, supporting the collection of memories and stories. These personal accounts were woven together with aspects of local heritage to create Kirkham’s Lancashire Folk Tale, “ The Bride of Kirkham, “along with 12 bite size animations celebrating important aspects of Kirkham’s unique heritage. They were created by pupils from local school children, working with artist Izzie Major and Craig Sinclair.
Voices – Oral Histories & Nostalgia
Positive Placemakers CIC were commssioned by Helen Shearn to deliver this project as part of Kirkhams Historic England’s HAZ, Kirkham Futures. Positive Placemakers worked with Kirkham Local Library and a number of volunteers to deliver a high quality nostalgic events and collect collect oral histories across a number of thems. Bringing alive the characters, the places and ways of life, long since past.