Friends of Handforth Station

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FoHS Open Meeting on Mon 2nd November

The Friends of Handforth Station invite you to join us at our Open Meeting, on Monday 2 November 2020, starting from 7pm. We’ll be using video-conferencing, so you can join us from the comfort of your own home!

Please join us to hear what we’re doing for the station. We’ll be discussing things like: What is the status of the Access for All project (lifts) ? What will FoHS be doing to complement the works and keep the station attractive ? And, most importantly, how can you get involved ?

Our Guest Speakers this year will be the curators of Dwell Time. They create an award-winning arts publication reflecting on mental wellbeing. Dwell Time are displaying their latest publication in several locations in Handforth.

Note: there will be a Free Rail Ticket available, for one lucky new member who joins us on Monday 2nd.

For details of the Open Meeting (including joining information), email handforthstation@gmail.com or fill in the form on our web-site.

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Work Parties may be starting again soon

Throughout lockdown, the Friends of Handforth Station have been unable to do more than the most basic vital work at the station. We have not been allowed to gather for events like Work Parties, we have not been able to tend our vegetation/plantings as much as we’d have liked, and we have not been able to involve local community groups like the Scouts.

As circumstances related to COVID-19 change, Government advice means that the guidelines imposed by Northern Trains on volunteer groups such as ours are easing.

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Handforth Station – A Platform for Art – Invitation to Artists

We’re still very hopeful that Network Rail will be installing our new lifts at the station in 2022; if government restrictions on building works permit then the lifts may even be in place by the end of 2021.

We are inviting proposals for further artwork to complement the installation of the lifts.

We are inviting artists to identify possible artistic enhancements to the new building works and then design them. As well as the lifts themselves, pathways, fences, seats, signage and other associated works also provide scope for inclusion in the design process.

We would love local (and not so local !) artists to read the announced brief and submit proposals for working with FoHS, Network Rail and Northern Trains.

Our Artists’ Brief can be found on this web-page. We are open for submissions until the 15th of June. You can contact us on handforthstation@gmail.co.uk and via our Contacts form.