It’s been a busy old week.
I heard back from the letter I wrote about the third property, it was the agent and he is really behind the project so was going to speak to his clients and recommend they lease their shop to us. That was last Friday but I haven’t heard back yet.
STILL haven’t heard anything from the other 2 agents. You start thinking people don’t want their premises let. It’s a bit mad as it’s obviosuly beneficial to them. They dont have to pay rates whilst we’re in there or for 3 months after we lave vacated thanks to Wirral Council and they get paid rent!! so I’m still playing the waiting game.
Our local MP contacted me as she wants to blog about the project which is great so I have sent her the details and then wrote a press release to follow up so that next weeks local papers might carry the story too, to follow on from her blog.
I also mentioned that the press could do a story about ALL the artists working in empty shops in Wirral, there are 4 of us I think. one of the artists, Brenda Sharp, seemed keen for that so I hope they do. We’ll see.
I’ve had about 20 enquiries so far from artists which is great, deadline is about a month away so I’m hoping I get a good few applications. I’ve sent details to the art colleges too as it would be good experience for a student to take part I think, especially if they could then use it towards their course work.
I also was given a free table and chairs set that I can paint, they are taking up lots of space and we wont have a shop until April to put them in but they were free so I couldn’t say no. Hope to get a lot more for free but will have to wait a while now as I have no space to put things.
There’s a lot of planning to do yet, it’s a good job there’s a few months to go.
