Well, we seem to be getting there

Have taken over this monstrous building a year ago after being knocked back for funding from Gannochy Trust as a capital grant...so have just gone for it anyway and hoping to buy it myself and rent it out...

 .....well actually we have rented out studio spaces and antique,vintage, retro stalls...have 28 stall holders and 4 artists at themoment...bit disappointed in the amount of artists, but the building has no water at night which I hope to fix soon !

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looking for a cake baker so we can have a cafe !!!!!!!!

studios for rent in Perth

We have secured the former Loves auction for artists studios in Perth and are currently running an auction in order to raise funds to repair the building...its in need of a good clean as well as warmth and new windows but has the vibe of a great location...come onboard

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wee moosie

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trying to raise interest in our products, increase links and communication....it seems like a new world.........in some ways a strange one in which I talk to no-one and yet lots of people  are friends ......silence from them all.....and then out of the blue a comment appears form someone and a complete stranger suddenly feels like a long lost friend. The numbers of followers increase , the numbers of friends increase ,,,,but no sales for our social enterprise...so do we have to go to trade shows and sell like a tile company to big stores?? Think so ...much as I am loving this blogging ...it is strangely therapeutic...a social network as they call it....but an unusual one...

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so if we are not being funded by the council after 8 years of hiting our head off the wall ...meetings...presentations...and so on ...and we are not being fundd by trusts because they are nervous of our involvement in enterprise ...is there any point being a charity ...if we could make enough money in ... say a community interest company...then we could support the causes we fight,,,without applying for grants...monitoring , reporting and justifying...but then again if we were a ltd company ...just an ordinary on then we could decide to profit share ...when we feel we can ...it would be like teh old philanthropists model...question of course is ....are we going to make a profit that can run our organisation ...currently we have 135 people with special needs who come every week which needs financed every year to the tune of £55 K ...so are we going to make that.......????  xx

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social enterprises are struggling

apparently two of the local social enterprises have struggled this year and gone bust ...heard from the funder that we thought was going to support us ....they feel that we had a large part of our business plan was social enterprise therefore vulnerable to going bust too ....great....!! as you can imagine ...we feel we shouldn't be judged by their failure, but we will have to now work harder to prove the social enterprise idea works ......

old buildings

just got some bad news that we are not getting funded by one of our major sponsors because they are nervous about us buying a big old building....this leaves us with a dilemma...should we rent to buy and renovate whilst renting....and borrow from the bank or just find a medium sized new building and rent that ??

Still looking for acrylic display stands online to provide us with a look for the SECC...so our reclaim and renovate is not appreciated today .... all feeling a bit low ....Jess is making cake and biscuit badges to cheer us all up!!

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Just trying to tell the story of wot we do at artspace .....dragon's den drifting through from the kitchen and wondrin...what wud duncan bannatyne say to me .....you haven't a clue.....I'm out..... ?? luckily the old british spirit seeps thro ........keep right on to the end of the road, keep right on to the end.........dont really know anything else but hopeless faith in eventually we will get there........