The end of a very busy and fruitful week and aiming high

Hello there blog readers hope you are all well and ready for a relaxing week end? I know I am lol
 
This has been a very busy week here:
 
We completed and sent off all the documentation and photographs for one of the awards we are going for........I think we have as much chance of wining as everyone else. So wish us luck please.
 
The end of project lottery form and budget has been completed and sent off. Everything is hunky dory with that. We came in within budget which is cool wooo hooo. 
 
I want to take this opportunity to thank all the funders of Unique Dyslexic, The Big Lottery, Fife Cultural Trust, Foundation Scotland and Fife Creative Learning Network.
 

 

Photo from Unique Dyslexic Celebration of Creativity event

 

 

It seem the rest of Scotland may be trying to catch up with Unique Dyslexic. Dyslexia Pathways CIC and Unique Dyslexic have basically been trailblazers in promoting dyslexia / neuro difference and creativity. I received this e mail yesterday from the Cultural Enterprise office.

 

Dear Steve

 

My name is Helen Voce. I am the Events Programmer at Cultural Enterprise Office. I am a colleague of Jacqui Corcoran, who I believe you met at our Next Step workshop in Edinburgh on 18 September.

 

Why I am getting touch? Well, we are delivering an event titled Planning Creatively with Dyslexia in Edinburgh on 30 March 2015. When I shared details with my CEO colleagues, Jacqui immediately suggested forwarding information about the event to you. If the event is of interest to your networks please feel free to share.

 

This is the first event of this kind we have done. We are looking forward to seeing our attendees get creative with their planning and hopefully overcome some barriers. All with the aid of tea, coffee and cake of course!

 

Best wishes

 

Helen

 

For too long we dyslexics have been treated like second class citizens by society. By an education system that basically fails to meet out learning needs and still fails too many dyslexic kids.

 

For too long we have been shackled by negative stereo types of dyslexia by a medical model of dyslexia that has little positive to say to dyslexics everywhere.

 

The objective of Unique Dyslexic Get Creative is to support, promote and celebrate the creative talents of the dyslexic community across the full range of creative spectrum. At Unique Dyslexic Get Creative, we promote and support the social model of dyslexia. We see dyslexia as a difference that reflects the diversity inherent in humanity.

Viva la difference



 
We had a great meeting of Dyslexia Pathways directors where we welcomed two new directors into the fold. So a big welcome to Cat and Lecia both of whom are dyslexic. 

It was unanimously agreed that will start planning for stage two of Unique Dyslexic and the opening of a new dyslexia centre.......I learned a new word during that meeting.....commniversity..........that what we are aiming for a communiversity for the dyslexic and neuro diverse community.

We have a prospective site for the Dyslexia Centre in Lochgelly.....

The site is an old pub and is quite big enough for our needs. Ok it looks a bit ramshackle but it has possibilities. We plan to have an information centre, training facilities, run our workshops, open an social firm dyslexia café and build units to entrepreneur and creative dyslexics.

The back of the building shown above will be knocked down and replaced by specially built container units where entrepreneur and creative dyslexics can work.

 

 

 

The inside is a bit of a mess but it has a lot of potential and there is a basement and upstairs floor with this as well.

Its not going to be easy but nothing in life ever is. Its going to be a big challenge but I believe we are up to the challenge.  

Anyway that's enough for this blog lol ta for reading my blog

PS......we are currently seeking sponsors to help us finance our work and web sites and volunteers to help us grow our social media network......... So if anyone has an interest in enabling dyslexics to succeed and grow please just leave a comment. 

Oh yes finally watch out for the launch of our crowd funding appeal. I know I have been going on about this for a while but it is going to happen next week.