Tim Neobard is crowdfunding
Weʼre raising £4,500 to help East Essex Hackspace fix up the pavilion in a rush!
- Hawkwell, Essex
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East Essex Hackspace is a non profit organisation which will be providing a community workshop space, lectures and events in the former Clements Hall Cricket Pavilion on Park Gardens road in Hawkwell. At the end of May we will be signing a seven year lease.
Rochford Council is allowing East Essex Hackspace to move in before the lease, to assist us in manufacturing and distributing COVID-19 emergency PPE to the NHS and other health workers. With new urgency, we require the pavilion to be transformed into a usable space for equipment such as our laser cutters and 3D printers which are working to make PPE.
To date (1st May), our volunteers have produced 9,000 face shields and 6,000 ear protectors working from bedrooms, patios, garages and garden sheds. The only way to increase production is to increase the length of time we cut with the equipment we have. By having a central location, volunteers working in one-person shifts can man many machines all day long.
The Pavilion has been closed for the last eight years and has fallen into a dilapidated state. A rat infestation, vandalism and years without regular maintenance have left the space in need of a significant clean up effort. The council has invested £25k in a new roof for the building to secure its place in the community, however all internal works are left to us.
As a non profit Community Interest Company, we intend to raise funding through grant applications, but to get started, we are asking the community to help where they can, to allow us to open the doors as quickly as possible.
All the work will be done by volunteers but we need to raise money for materials to make this happen.
We need, in rough order of priority:
- Cleaning & Sanding supplies £100
- Interior Paint, rollers, brushes etc - £200
- Building work - £700
- New stainless catering Kitchen - £600
- Fire extinguishers & signage £200
- Electrical rewiring £2,500
- Interior double door £150
- Electric hand wash stations x 3 = £150
- Acid etchant & Floor paint for workshop £300
Should the crowdfunding allow us to do so we may add to this list as we find other things that need fixing.
If you want to participate email info@eehack.space, or visit us on Facebook at http://eehack.space
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- 3 months ago
Tim Neobard
3 months agoThank you all for your kind donations! I think we were a bit naive to think we could have done what needed to be done for the £4,500 and quite a few things came out of the woodwork we didn't expect. Thanks to several people, the local council, grants and a couple of companies, we now have enough to close the campaign for the reconditioning of the building itself. Any money over the £1,540 will now be going into equipment to populate the workshop. We will setup a new campaign and retire this one specifically for equipment!
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- 4 months ago
Tim Neobard
4 months ago21d of sanding later and you can see we are getting the first layer of paint on. We still have to disassemble the kitchen, put in a stud wall and sand that, but we have been putting it off as we will lose our tea and coffee making facilies! Thanks for the recent donations, we'd been getting concerned we were almost out of cash and this helps us buy much needed supplies.
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- 4 months ago
Tim Neobard
4 months agoWe have boarded the social space and are now awaiting the plasterer to arrive Tuesday/Wednesday! We still have a bit of paint prep to go, the newly cleared storage cupboard (left door closest) needs scraping, the disabled loo continues to need attention and the entrance lobby has to have every square inch steamed off as they painted over the mold each time they repainted! Still, it's looking a lot better. Please keep sharing the campaign and letting people know we are still working. We still need to raise another £1,500 to get electrics in!
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Peter
Aug 25, 2020
Well done!
£20.00
Judi
Jul 30, 2020
You are all doing a grand job, well done.
£10.00
Richard Reeves
Jul 20, 2020
You’re doing a great job for the community - thank you.
Jasper Wallace
Jul 14, 2020
keep up the good work
Anonymous
Jul 13, 2020
Donation on behalf of Nigel & Coral Kathro who changed a couple of my old videos into dvd's and asked for any contribution to go to the pavilion project.Thanks Nigel & Coral and also a thanks to Tim
£25.00
Val Collins
Jul 2, 2020
Well done!
£20.00
David Sullivan
Jun 25, 2020
£30.00
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