We are working towards making Blackwell Parish a community-led, connected, playful and proud place that proactively and creatively commemorates and celebrates its people and places. Come and join the fun!
WE ARE GREATER CREATIVE
Greater Creative is a community collective. Our work is informed by the community and led by our working party of Blackwell Parish residents. The programme is facilitated by local community arts organisation Platform Thirty1.
We’ve been together since 2018 and work closely with local, regional and national artists and experts in specific fields to co-design and co-create projects, revive and invent assets, put on events and create opportunities with and for our community. From 2018 until 2022 we were funded by Creative Civic Change, a programme that empowers communities to use arts and creativity to make positive local change.
OUR community
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blackwell parish
Blackwell Parish is in Derbyshire, south of the district of Bolsover and is made up of the villages Blackwell, Newton, Westhouses, Hilcote and Old Blackwell. Our parish was once thriving with local mining, railway and framework knitting industries. Today our parish is nestled within a semi-rural setting and holds approximately 2,300 houses. New walking routes and greenspaces have and are being generated across the ex-industrial trails and open casted lands. Many people have lived here for generations with new families coming to dwell in the many newly built estates across the parish.
EXPLORE Our PROJECTS
Platform thirty1
Greater Creative was ignited by the team at Platform Thirty1.
Platform Thirty1 is a women-led organisation working across the arts, culture, community and education sectors in the East Midlands but is based locally, here in Blackwell Parish. The organisation specialises in co-created work in ex-industrial areas and the team bring a wealth of seasoned experience and facilitation approach that uses creativity to generate agency and power for individuals and communities.
The organisation felt very proud to work on their own doorstep and to bring their core principles to the heart of the project:
- Creating change: striving to make a positive difference
- Being context specific: proud to be rooted in people and place
- Having integrity: doing the right thing
- Unapologetically authentic: considerations for the complexities and qualities at play
Platform Thirty1 has worked extensively on the Greater Creative programme to bring about local ownership ensuring the integrity of the direction and delivery of creative initiatives across the parish.