Multi-Story Water
Multi Story Water is an interactive project
taking place in the Shipley area during 2012. The idea is to involve local
people in a creative conversation about the waterways that run through the
town. We’re gathering stories, memories and ideas from people who live close to
the River Aire and Bradford Beck, and we’re hoping to use these as raw
material for the creation of live, site-specific performances (e.g.
storytelling, theatre, walking tours) that will take place in open-air
locations in September. The project is a research project being led by Leeds
University with Canal Connections as a
partner organisation.
Waterways for Growth
Waterways For Growth explores how our inland
waterways can best support economic growth, through encouraging business
activity and by creating attractive places near which people can live and
work. All this is underpinned by the sustainable management and
development of the waterways and their surroundings. Canal Connections is the
lead partner in developing workshops focused on developing the Social Economy
through the waterways.
National
Community Boats Association (NCBA)
The NCBA’s vision is a network of well
resourced, well managed community boating organisations that promote access to
UK waterways as well as promoting the safe use of community boats as a resource
available for the benefit of disadvantaged and excluded groups in ways that
promote social cohesion, protect the environment and support economic
regeneration. Canal Connections is an accredited training
centre and Trevor is the chair of the Board of Directors.
Canal and River Trust North East Partnership
The government is placing the waterways in trust
for the nation through the Canal and Rivers Trust, and that means that it is
important for the people who use them to have a greater say in how they are
run. One of the ways that this will happen is through the Waterways
Partnerships. Trevor has recently been appointed onto the North East
Partnership.
Bradford Works
Bradford Works is a partnership based social
enterprise offering quality grounds maintenance and landscape management
services whilst delivering value for money and supporting long term unemployed
people based on the principle that it is easier to get a job whilst in work. Canal
Connections is a partner organisation together with Shipley College, Aspire!,
Trescom and InCommunities .
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| Image Courtesy of Yvonne Roberts, Artist in Residence |
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