As most of you will know, George and
Charmaine have been looking for someone to take over the running of Off the
Rails. I can happily announce that I will be the main point of contact for the
project, and as a whole, it'll be subsumed under Wivenhoe Creatives (CIC to be).
So what’ll change?
In form, it'll be doing the same things as
the excellent team have done all these years.
Into the future though we’ll be looking at ways of making it financially
sustainable.
Sue Dawes will be producing two more
editions of Words Down The Line before it has a revamp/relaunch in the autumn.
As for the art display boxes, we’ll be
doing something for the Wild about Wivenhoe festivities in May, and after that
have a regular change of artwork.
We’ll be posting about the project on the
Wivenhoe Creatives site, blog, and Facebook page and group, though we’ll create
a link so that the back catalogue can be seen. We’ll also at some point decide
what to do about the OTR Facebook page.
I know running everything through another
set of platforms seems like a big change, but having too many digital platforms
to manage (particularly for what is a volunteer role) can be confusing and
exhausting (for the Wivenhoe Creatives group and me).
The advantage is that we can use Facebook’s
ad function to publicise exhibitions and poetry. We also have a monthly
newsletter, and we’ll dedicate a section of that to OTR.
We hope you’ll want to make the transition
with us.
If anyone would like to help or if you have
any thoughts on the project get in touch at wivenhoecreatives@gmail.com.
