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Renew Newcastle's New General Manager [25.04.2009]

Renew Newcastle finally has some funding! It means we are no longer paying for everything with volunteer labour, overdrawn credit cards and dubious IOUs. We'd like to thank the Newcastle City Centre Committee and Arts NSW for getting on board and backing us.

The even better news is that the arrival of money means that we now have our first paid staff member. Marni Jackson has been appointed as Renew Newcastle's first General Manager. Some of you may know her from her previous role as Renew Newcastle's most over-enthusiastic and over-commited Newcastle based volunteer (that's Marni on the left above back cleaning out one of our first empty shop spaces) or from her previous life as the Manager of the This Is Not Art festival.

We couldn't have found a better candidate.