SpinningSchool Tuesday workshops have moved. From now on all Tuesday workshops(second Tuesday in the month) will  take place at the The Allerton Project Visitor Centre, Loddington, LE7 9XE. This new award-winning sustainable building will provide an inspiring opportunity to develop our  educational activity; it seats 70, is spacious and light, has superb conferencing, wi-fi, disability access and facilities as well a fully equipped kitchen – with dishwasher and large fridge!  It is next door but one to the Weaving Room at Loddington Grange – just 1.5 miles from the A47 at East Norton. Interesting to spinners is the fact that it is built from materials sourced from the fields of the Allerton Estate, including straw and sheep fleece for insulation!!!  Also wood chips from the estate are fuel for the biomass boiler, so we won’t be cold any more either! (Woolly Day remains at Stoke Albany for the time being)

News ITEM: Sustainable Development of the Year, sponsored by De Montfort University, went to the £405,000 Allerton Project Visitor Centre, at Manor Farm, in Loddington, near Market Harborough. The scheme, submitted by architect Parkinson Dodson & Cheung, saw a brick animal shed given a new lease of life by a team of volunteers from companies involved in Leicestershire & Rutland ProHelp.

for more information see www.gwct.org.uk/allerton