Case study for our scheme?

Self perpetuating organisation in Leeds that previously was a church.

Very similar to what we perceive All Hallows to be, in that the church wished to retain its spirtual significance whilst opening its doors, freely to the public to use the building as an artistic and creative resource.

"This project is focused on producing a business plan, with four strands of activity, which can be developed. The business plan reflects the goal to operate without a reliance on grants, but there is an acceptance that grant funding will be required to undertake the necessary alterations to the building to turn it into a viable arts venue...The arts activities have helped to raise the profile of the church in the community and they demonstrate how open and accessible the church venue is for everybody"

Group meeting

Secret passageways

We went through our progress so far with Carolyn today, discussing the intentions behind our each groups proposals, leading to conversations around the longevity of the certain interventions and the possibilities of using the existing skills base of the church to direct viable and achievable interventions. Also suggesting that we become more ambitious in our long term proposals.

Along with this we thought of producing an open ended business plan for the church which would based on the NCVO's Sustainable Sun Needs Analysis Tool. Thus providing the church with a tool to comprehend their sustainability status and also providing them with possible paths of progression and a possible educational resource.

Networking diagram

Just to keep everyone informed, i am making some adjustments to the networking diagrams and including the religious networks onto some of these, initially understanding their individual organisational networks and then overlaying them upon a abstract geographical base. This will then be extended to include those centres who are willing to engage with us on a broad community level. It seems to be going well so far.

Religious and community organisations positioning

Religious and community organisations willingness to engage with the project (so far)

All Hallows Church religious interaction

All Hallows Church community interaction

The intention is to compile these onto a few pages for knowledge of who to engage in the process and also for a future networking proposal.

Walk of friendship

Interfaith and community group solidarity event in Leeds, in which All Hallows participates.

"Saturday 01st May 2010, members of the community from various cultural and religious backgrounds joined together as 'one' for the Walk Of Friendship, to walk through some of the streets of Leeds, with paying visits to spiritual sites and places of worship."

Friendface

Christmas has come early guys...All Hallows are on Friendface. It seems relatively inactive though (one post every month or two) and is used to publicise specific religious and social events, almost separately as there is another friendface group for the live acoustic nights.

It seems like a tool for ex-congregation members to remain in contact with the worshipping community.

Great quote from the group wall :

"Happy memories with my children there we used to cycle to church like a family of ducks in a row"

Group meeting

10 DAYS TO DRAFT DOCUMENT SUBMISSION

28th October

The general outcome of the meeting today was that, all of the work done so far has been useful, but requires categorisation and its importance considered in relation to its position within the final funding document. Therefore, for Thursday each group should have a comprehensive contents list for their specific section and a general understanding of a graphical layout.

For the finding document we need to consider a standard requirement criteria, which seems to encompass recording statistical evidence of engagement; examples of this would be documenting :

• how many people took part in the activity
• the age group of the participants
• the ethnicity of the participants
• the people who passively saw the activity occur
• the people who actively engaged with the activity

The next group meeting with Carolyn will be on Thursday at 2pm where we will present some preliminary images (to confirm a graphical style) and a comprehensive contents list to confirm the necessity of all the information in creating a coherent document for client hand-over.

Funding document graphical style

Binding style

Open bind / string bind - Allowing for adjustments to page layouts of each section. Making the document extendable after the hand over

Document size

I have a personal preference for an A4 Portrait Document. More manageable for the client, business like and friendly to pick up and read than and A4, I feel that the portrait page format is more elegant than landscape page format.

Chapter division / Specialism division

Colourful inlays (rainbow coloured if possible) - These will divide the document into community, site and building interventions

Page layout

Jan Tschichold (just a suggestion, if anyone prefers a different grid system, please mention it) - Simplicity and proportion should enhance the reading of the drawing, there should be a consistency to page layouts with a simple grid layout forming the basis of the design, this grid can be broken to highlight important images / diagrams. The design below is only an indication of how it could be done, I probably would alter the position of the grid slightly, although its a classic document grid

Graphics

Line-drawings - Clean black and white diagrams for the most simple drawings (if applicable, may better to use polychromatic diagrams instead of monochromatic depictions)

Swatch palette

A swatch palette has not been defined yet...although I would suggest that we a colourful and friendly palette based loosely on a rainbow spectrum. I don't think they should be overly saturated or desaturated colours. Tentatively I would suggest the following 7 colours (that should be enough for all the diagrams we will produce) These colours would be combined with a clean line drawing (such as those above)

Example of the palette in a drawing

Hand-over extendability

CD / DVD of document and the programme files

Fonts

Minion Pro (Body text) and Gentium Book (Chapter titles) - Just a suggestion because I think we need to be considering this now. my preference for this document is a serifed font, giving historical connotations to what is produced and also a sense of progressive knowledge (and they're really nice fonts and i have the font families for each)

Minion pro

Gentium book

I'm quite happy to talk to all about their suggestions for the document style as this is quite early and i'm sure everyone wants to create something that is coherent and essentially professional and pretty