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Project Progress: March 2021
This month our main focus has been getting ready to celebrate Mary’s birthday, as we do every April. This year there is a whole week of events planned: from lectures with Barbara Taylor and Amartya Sen to musical performances celebrating Mary and other women from history, there is something for everyone. We hope you will join us!
Project progress: February 2021
This month we learnt a little more about when we might next be able to welcome you all to the Meeting House again. We are now busy planning in the hope that it will be June when we open again for self-guided visits, booked tours, exhibitions, and a chance to try our new audio guides and touch screens!
Update on project progress - January 2021
Hope you are doing okay in these difficult times. We’re very uncertain as to when we will be able to open the doors of the Meeting House again and for our fantastic volunteers to welcome you and take you on a tour of our history.
Until then, we have been making wonderful progress in our community work, education programmes, historical research and events. Here’s an update.
Inside the Meeting House
We’re delighted to share with you some wonderful photographs taken by our heritage project rapporteur, Marcus Duran.
Project update November 2020
One name has dominated the headlines this month, and we couldn’t be happier that that name is Mary Wollstonecraft! Thanks for the decade-long efforts of the Mary on the Green campaign there is a sculpture to Mary’s legacy on Newington Green. There have been many views shared, criticisms and debates on the sculpture – and it has been fascinating reading people’s responses.
Project update: October 2020
This month is Black History Month – although we are committed at the Meeting House to sharing, learning and celebrating Black History every month. We have a line-up of events this month in collaboration with creative partners The Black Exchange and Alternative Fictions that we have been busy putting together to ensure a high quality, engaging and relevant events programme that highlights and tackles important conversations we should all be having about issues like Black experience, representation in the Arts and inclusion and allyship.
Update from the project
After a slow start and getting our heads round new working practices and the furloughing of many colleagues at New Unity – we are now getting stuck in with this new online world of engagement.
Newington Green Meeting House: Revolutionary Ideas - project update
It was very disappointing not be able to re-open the Meeting House in April and enjoy the celebrations and programme planned and developed for such a long time. The team have still been working hard in the face of adversity on the project, here is an update on progress and amended plans for the Newington Green and New Unity communities, and our partners and supporters.
Project launch postponed update
The Newington Green Meeting House: Revolutionary Ideas Since 1708 project’s planned launch has been postponed due to the Covid 19 (coronavirus) outbreak.
Instead, the team will work to create resources that can be shared online, such as teaching resources and live-streamed activities, and will also devote energy to planning an autumn/winter programme.
NGMH renovation: Rapporteur report, March 2020
This is the final straight.
A sense of “very-near-completion” binds all of the spaces throughout. From the old to the new, refurbished, reimagined or simply untouched, everything’s coming into sharp focus. Much of this is evidenced in the functional trappings that are being added on the day of the rapporteur’s visit. These include, amongst other things, the wiring of light switches, laying of Yorkstone on the new staircase to the basement, hanging of lights and some final bits of tilling in the kitchen and bathroom.
Project throwback: Early 2019
2019 was a major year for the Newington Green Meeting House, as it marked the first phase of major works on this historic building. This blog post will go back over some of the key events which occurred in this part of the year.
Project throwback: Late 2019
As 2019 began to draw to a close, so did the Newington Green Meeting House renovation project. In this article, we’ll explore exactly what happened over the course of the second half of the year.
Renovating our Meeting House: a history of the project
The building needed some attention, and a group of people from New Unity worked hard to secure a renovation. Now, it has been fully renovated thanks to a major grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. This blog post will take a look back at just how the Meeting House renovation project came about.