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Thursday 20 March 2003

eMACNew Brighton Online now with added Macintosh

NBO now has it's very own eMac. We can now offer our members who use Macintosh format the opportunity to use the latest OSX technology. Ideal for graphic design, website design, print work, digital photography and digital video editing.

 


News from New Brighton Community Centre

The Centre during this last year has seen major construction and a total transformation with the news that it has been awarded nearly £500,000 worth of investment to become New Brighton's 1st UK Online Centre. This major work will see the Centre become a flagship project on the Wirral and enhance New Brighton's reputation as an ICT provider.

While this major construction work was undertaken the Centre has not sat idly by. It has been fully engaged with the 'new' Community Planning process that has been instigated as a result of the 'Local Government Bill' that recently came into force. Members sit on the Wirral Waterfront Programme Steering Groups (PSGs) East Wallasey Area Forum and have also been elected onto the Wirral Community/Voluntary Sector Network Panel as the New Brighton representative. See overleaf for flow-chart explaining this or further information on these programmes can be viewed on 2 web-sites at: www.wirral.gov.uk and www.wvcsn.org


UK Online Centre

UK Online is a drive to ensure that everyone in the UK who wants it will have access to the internet and email near to where they live. The successful bid came from a variety of sources including the Department for Education & Science (DfES) and the New Opportunities Fund (NOF).


Enhanced Facilities

The transformation of the Community Centre now means that it will be able to offer enhanced ICT learning and associated Internet facilities open for all members of the Community and its environs. The Centre is ideally placed in a central location in the heart of the shopping area with plenty of parking facilities, is also on the main bus routes and 5 minutes from the train station.

The Centre will run an open access policy with friendly helpful staff on hand all day in warm and spacious surroundings. The main computer suite is situated on the ground floor with a seminar room (with associated learning materials) on the lower ground floor. Adjacent to the computer suite is the Internet Café were users can enjoy a meal and a drink while surfing on the Interactive TV. The first floor is available for meetings and can cater for up to 35 people.

The main room has been enlarged considerably and will soon have a dividing wall to enable it to cater for both large group activities and meetings of approximately 100 or small groups in two rooms. All the facilities and rooms are easily accessed by stairs or a lift. The Centre hopes shortly to be able to provide a full programme to cater for all sections of the Community.


Monday 20 Oct 2002

Wallasey MP Angela Eagle surfing @ New Brighton OnlineWhat can the Internet do for you?

The possibilities will soon be endless at New Brighton Community Centre. New Brighton community centre in Hope Street is to become a UK online centre which is part of the Government's efforts to give as many local residents in the New Brighton area free access to computers and the Internet. The successful bid for a UK online Centre which will have an open access policy will transform the Community Centre and more importantly it will offer services to people who have limited or no access to skills in using new technologies.

"We aim to provide the residents of New Brighton with a local drop-in centre that will have free access to computers & the Internet, and which will compliment the existing facilities in the area at Vale House Community Centre"

Tony Jones - Chair - New Brighton Community Centre.

It is envisaged that the building works which include an extension, a lift and a brand new seminar area with state of the art presentational facilities which will be available to local organisations and groups, should be completed by late summer. The Centre will also be able to offer enhanced facilities which will open up a wider range of Community activities than were previously available.

 

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NEW BRIGHTON ONLINE - New Brighton Community Centre, 1A Hope Street, New Brighton, Merseyside, CH45 2LN - EMAIL: rory@newbrightononline.org.uk TEL: 0151 630 2626

 

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