Mechanical Memories Magazine

At the Open Day, hundreds of people potted plants, took them home to nurture, and
will return in 2014 to plant a garden for Dreamland. We registered around 160
volunteers and linked approximately 80 people to the Dreamland archive resulting in
offers of photographs and recorded personal memories and histories. We also
collected thousands of peoples' memories and thoughts on the comment board and
luggage tags and have signed up volunteers for the f community engagement event,
The Big Clear Day, which was held on the 30 November 2013. This event was also a
great success and I will report on that in the next issue of Mechanical Memories.
Once again, a big thank you to everyone who made Saturday' s Open Day and Art
Auction such memorable events.
VOLUNTEERING UP-DATE
Thank you to everyone offering to help rebuild Dreamland - as stated above, we now
have approximately 160 volunteers signed up! Our voluntary Volunteer Coordinator,
John Cripps, is currently up-dating the volunteer register. This involves matching
people' s skills, interests and available time to the project programme, physical works
schedule, specific tasks, activities and events - lots to co-ordinate! John helps us just
one day a week and is doing a sterling job replying to the many emails and signatures
received and will be contacting everyone as soon as possible. Please be patient - we
are getting there!
We do have to manage numbers of people coming to the site for health and safety
reasons. So if you mi ss any one event, don't worry, there will be more opportunities in
the New Year.
Nick Laister
Nick Laister (Chairman, The Dreamland Trust)
Jan Leandro (Heritage and Engagement Officer, The Dreamland Trust)
www .dreamlandmargate.com
www .savedreamland.co. uk
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