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Aims of today’s workshop
•  Learning about:
o  Exploring ways to enhance the heritage for your
building/site through creative design solutions
o  Using digital media to get your message out
o  Ensuring a sustainable future for the site through sound
business planning and funding strategy
o  Maximising income from commercial use / visitor
attraction / working with the community.
•  Hearing about and joining BRICKwork
•  An opportunity to have a guided tour of Middleport Pottery
•  Sharing ideas, views, discussing issues with peers
•  Networking.
The Prince’s Regeneration Trust
•  Founded in 1996 by HRH The Prince of Wales to help ensure that
important buildings at risk of demolition or decay are preserved,
regenerated and re-used
•  The Prince’s Regeneration Trust has dual charitable objects covering
heritage and regeneration
•  Our work focuses on places that will benefit most from the
regeneration of the wider community.
Where we work
•  18 years
•  1.3 million square feet
re-used
•  1,650 jobs created
•  Over 70 Projects
•  £150M + investment
secured
The Trust’s role in projects
Owner/
Partner
Social
Enterprise
Community
Adviser
Projects - we provide
assistance on:
•  Understanding heritage issues for a
building or site
•  Establishing what stakeholders want
•  Building consensus between owner,
local and heritage bodies and the
community
•  Finding viable new uses, including
architectural, heritage, funding and
legal solutions
•  Sourcing very specialist expertise
from our extensive networks
•  Providing developer led solutions
•  Leading a team to deliver a scheme
Working with communities
•  Although we work with buildings, what we do is about people
•  We support and strengthen communities through our projects
•  Our priority is to work in areas of deprivation; places that will benefit
most from the regeneration and economic growth we deliver
What is BRICK?
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BRICK - a three year, UK wide training and
mentoring programme led by The Prince’s
Regeneration Trust
Aimed at supporting community groups to find new
ways and means to save their local heritage
through innovation, collaboration and partnership
Emphasis on peer to peer learning and digital and
fundraising innovation
How is BRICK funded?
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By a major grant from The Heritage Lottery Fund
Catalyst Umbrella programme
Match funding provided by Purcell, Alan Baxter
Foundation, British Land and through in-kind
contributions from The Prince’s Regeneration Trust,
Locality and a number of collaborators
BRICK work streams
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Conferences
Workshops
Mentoring
Partnership brokers pilot
BRICKwork
•  Over three years we will mentor c. 40 groups and
provide 7-9 days of specialist support per group
•  Examples of support that could be provided:
o  Business planning
o  Grant application advice
o  Governance issues
o  Communications strategy
o  Funding strategy
o  Options appraisal
o  Apply online through BRICKwork
Apply now for mentoring
support in 2015-16!
Expression of interest form here:
http://brick-work.org/about-brick/
the-brick-mentoring-programme/
Our new digital platform:
•  Includes a social networking site for the
regeneration / heritage sector
•  Is a place to:
o  promote projects and celebrate successes
o  take part in online discussions
o  offer and get advice from professionals
o  search for volunteers and potential trustees
o  book events
o  hear news
•  Is a repository for BRICK and other relevant
resources.
Changing Places
Peter Jenkins - Finance Director
Vision
• Repair and restore the Grade II* listed buildings and site to secure
Middleport’s unique character as an operational Victorian pottery.
• Retain the ceramics manufacturing business and traditional pottery-making
skills.
• Create new workshop units for new and expanding creative businesses.
• Save existing jobs and create new jobs in an economically deprived area
• Provide a catalyst for wider regeneration in the local area
Vision
• Create a visitor centre where the history of the factory can be told, and
café, expanded shop and function rooms
• Provide learning and participation opportunities for local residents, school
children and visitors
• Offer skills training throughout the project and beyond
• Catalogue, conserve and display the collections of moulds, archives and
historic artefacts on the site.
Funding summary
Total £ M
English Heritage
1.2
Regional Growth Fund
1.7
HLF
1.4
ERDF
Private donors & trusts
PRT & Denby
1.2
2.4
1.0
8.9
Relationships
The Project Milestones
• Design Team – Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios selected September 2011.
• Heritage Interpretation consultant appointed October 2011.
• Facilitating Works (Old Packing House) completed March 2012 .
• Planning permission granted July 2012.
• Urgent Works, chimney repairs and asbestos removal completed August
2012.
• Main works started mid-October 2012.
• Collection cataloguing works commenced November 2012.
• Main works completed June 2014
• Visitor Centre open July 2014
• Collections cataloguing work due to complete summer 2015
Key Challenges
• Keeping factory production going whilst carrying out major works
• Maintaining public access and developing a program of activities during
construction works
• Maintaining the character of the grade II* listed site whilst providing
modern facilities (‘Mending the factory’)
• Combining a working factory, visitor centre, workshops and offices on one
site
• Partnership working between a private equity owned commercial company
and a charity
• Balancing the requirements of funders
Key construction works
Re-roofing
Window repair and refurbishment
Drainage works and new rainwater goods
Major mechanical and electrical fit out
Key elements
Canal wall works
Bottle Kiln pointing and stabilisation
Removal of redundant tunnel kilns
Key elements
New circulation and lifts
Chimney stabilisation
Furniture and fit out
A few before and after shots…
Training
• ‘Get into Construction’ programme, ran in conjunction with The Prince’s
Trust, and 3 follow up construction apprenticeships offered.
• Placements for 3 Prince’s Foundation Craft Apprentices
• Apprentices taken on by B&L
• Graduate internships created in partnership with Keele University
• Work placement funded by the Halcrow Foundation
• Volunteer opportunities and training
• Future training opportunities in the café in partnership with Stoke College
• Future ‘Get into Ceramics’ programme in partnership with B&L
Collections
• Collections work began in November 2012
• Covers extensive paper archive, ceramics, furniture, historic machinery,
moulds, copper plates / cylinders
• Team of professionals assisted by large team of volunteers working at an off
site facility, have catalogued the mixed collection of paper, ceramics, furniture
etc.
• Collection of c19,000 moulds of which over 6,000 have been catalogued and
returned to site
• All display collections returned to site as well as the Richard Dennis collection
• Collections work continuing on site until summer 2015
Visitor Offer
Activities
• Programme of events throughout construction
• Winner of a Heritage Open Days ‘Community
Champions’ award
• Engagement with local schools, colleges and
universities
• Programme of events for 2014 aimed to attract
local and national visitors
• Major community art project resulting in the
2000 Kilns on display in the gallery
• Oral History Project collecting memories
funded by the Halcrow Foundation and HLF
Thank you!
Peter Jenkins
[email protected]
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