Latest from The Dock in TQ
Revd Chris Bennett, chaplain to The Titanic Quarter, Belfast, brings us the latest from The Dock:
'A few weeks ago in Dock-World we launched the Business Plan for the Dock. I never thought I'd get so excited by something like a Business Plan, but I suppose pretty much everything about The Dock has been an adventure on to new waters!
The Business Plan is a fully-researched, costed-out professional document, making a solid business case for this big crazy idea of Church On A Boat in the Titanic Quarter. It's the result of loads of hard work from the whole Dock Team stretching right back to the beginning of the project - you can follow the story of the evolution of the plan in this short video:
The Story of the Dock Business Plan from The DOCK Church on Vimeo.
As we had hoped, the Business Plan is now leading to loads of interest and support from all sorts of directions - government, churches, businesses and individuals. We are well and truly started in this exciting journey of tracking down (and saving up for) a beautiful old boat to moor in the heart of the TQ, to provide community and spiritual life for the thousands of residents, students, employees and visitors.
If you'd like your own copy (or if you know anyone else who might be interested in seeing it), just pop a reply back to this email. Or if you want to be a nice green environmentalist and go paper-free, you can download a PDF version here.
Or if you want the short version, there's a summary
here
And as always, you can catch up with all the latest news and gossip form the Titanic Quarter at
www.the-dock.org
- this month including a video of the Maritime Heritage Festival held in the blazing July sunshine, the identity of Parsnip Lady revealed!, more tremendous progress in building the Titanic Quarter, and loads of pictures of Mass in the woods, storms over the ARC, BBQs in the sunshine, and lots more besides...
Finally a reminder whie the sun is still shining that I'm now part of the team of fantastic tour guides showing you around the hugely evocative Titanic heritage in the old docks as part of the Titanic Walking Tours.
The groups recently have been massive, and massively enjoyable, so there's no better time to explore Belfast's Titanic Heritage if you haven't been already. (And if you have, come back and see how much has changed!) The Tourist Board recently made this rather fab little video of the tours - bringing along two models to be pretend tourists (just in case the group that day weren't pretty enough), and getting the story of the tours from the inimitable Colin Cobb while I gesticulate a great deal in the background.
Check it out here
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