Contact
Contact: Marni Jackson, General Manager
Street Address: ReNew HQ, 3 Morgan St Newcastle NSW 2300, in the old St Marks Catholic Church
Postal Address: PO Box 1746 Newcastle NSW 2300 Australia
ReNew HQ Office hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
If you would like to discuss your project proposal please arrange an appointment time with General Manager Marni Jackson, by email: application@renewnewcastle.org
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GENERAL ENQUIRIES If you would like to know more about Renew Newcastle please drop us a line via the form below. Alternately, you can email us at hello@renewnewcastle.org. We welcome general enquiries and feedback, messages of support, and other organisational enquiries, but please do read the information on the website, including the FAQ’s before you contact us.
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PROJECT IDEAS For Project proposals, Expressions of interest, questions about your application please see the Proposel a Project page. You can email application@renewnewcastle.org
IMPORTANT: If you are thinking about proposing a project please make sure you read the FAQs and the details about proposing a project BEFORE you contact us. The information on this site clearly outlines what you need to do to make an application and what kind of projects are suitable. If you still have any questions please do write to us.
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PROPERTIES For Property owners wanting to find out more about Renew Newcastle and how to participate, please phone Marni on 0434 637 897 or email: property@renewnewcastle.org
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VOLUNTEERS We’d love to hear from people who would like to get involved by volunteering time, skills or labour, or offering resources for use by our projects. Email: volunteer@renewnewcastle.org
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MEDIA For any media and publicity enquiries, please phone Marni on 0434 637 897 or email: media@renewnewcastle.org
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MAILING LIST We send an e-newsletter about once a month and would love to keep you up to date with project launches, events and activities. Please subscribe to the mailing list by entering your details in the Subscribe Form in the sidebar.
You could also join our Facebook group if you are on Facebook, for updates.
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EMPTY SPACES INITIATIVES
We recieve regular enquiries about how people can set up similar initiatives in their own city or town and we are always keen to give advice and share our experience where we can. In particular, people are keen to look at the License Agreement and other documents we have produced.
We have made our License Agreements available to Arts Law Centre of Australia who have adapted them into templates for others to use. They are available online via the Empty Spaces website, which is an initiative of Arts NSW promoting ‘pop-up’, short-term reuses of empty shops and other spaces for creative and community uses.
The Toolkit section gives much background on the project overall and advice on setting up similar schemes, including interviews with property owners, projects, and organisers.
The License Agreements specifically are given as Sample Documents, located under Legal Resources section.
If you do undertake a Renew style project in your area, please keep in touch to let us know how you get on. We are keen to track how other initiatives develop.
RENEW AUSTRALIA
Join the Renew Australia facebook group to keep up to date with developments for this new national social enterprise initiative to take otherwise empty shops, offices, commercial and public buildings and make them available for short term use by artists, creative projects and community groups.
There are resources available on the Renew Australia website www.renewaustralia.org to assist people wanting to establish their own Renew-style initiative in their location. You can also contact Renew Australia about training programs and consultancy, suitable for Local Councils, Business Chambers, Developers or Community Organisers wanting to instigate space activitation through creative projects.
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Renew Newcastle has limited resources and we receive a lot of enquiries. We apologise in advance if all enquiries aren’t responded to immediately.
