Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Hello everybody, just to keep you up to date with where we are.
We are re-submitting our bid and video which must be in by this friday 29th, we decided to tweak them both a little bit so lets hope its a case of second time lucky.
The Town Council, DDC, Chamber of Commerce, Dover Society and numerous other local businesses and organisations are fully behind the bid and the plans we have, if you have any ideas or suggestions we're very keen to hear them.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Good luck with the new bid, I would suggest more focus on the future and less on the past but maybe that is what you have tweaked.
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Jan, when we did the first bid we were told the video must last no more than 3 minutes and not be professionally made, we followed those instructions only to discover most of the winners were 5 minutes or so. But you are right, we dwelt too much on the heritage of the town; this time Paul Watkins, Barry Williams and others have kindly agreed to help out and we're dealing more with our plans for the future.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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good luck with it david, do you know when a decision will be made?
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Unfortunately not howard, we're filimg in the town this morning including random locals, if anyone would like to contribute come and find us.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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passing by pencester gardens earlier i noticed a group of people in the centre which caused the seagulls to make their excuses and leave.
what's afoot i thought.
financial guru barry williams making his case for the town team video.
2 affable characters here, council fuhrer paul watkins and local businessman/town team member david little.
not met david before but heard his radio broadcasts.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Wow the heavy mob are out in force!!lol all suited and booted in their Armani's
Well done guys, and well done Howard again with the pictures.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you do look very different in todays photo barry, just looking paul's tie there.
i suppose they could do some editing to the video.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Are you using any of the innovative ideas in the Tourism Strategy, or the Plan of Action for Dover Town, or the Street-Market information I sent you all, David ?
Every email I have sent to members of the Town Team or Town Council have been ignored - why would that be David ?
Good Luck with it though.
Roger
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Good morning Roger, yes we have seen the documents and they contain very useful information which has helped to form a strategy for the bid. We have held meetings with lots of organisations and their input is gratefully received, the team is still very much in its infancy and developing, its a case of collating information and deciding which is most pertinent to the bid.
As was the case when we first applied, its difficult to form a definite plan until or unless we know whether we have the money, after this next stage I guess we'll know where we stand and will act accordingly.
I'm not personally aware of any emails sent to the Town Team and of course cant answer for the Town Council.
Thanks as usual for your input, via this forum I'll keep you up to speed with progress
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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will look forward to the link for the video when it is available david.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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There you go howard, a sneak preview before its officially sent off.
Wish us luck!
Guest 748- Registered: 4 Apr 2012
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Good luck with this. It really does seem much more focused than the previous one.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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David, I thought that the first film was a good one, but this one is really good. I like the 'your probably one of the 14 million...' Not so sure about the shots where the speaker is not addressing us the viewers directly through the camera but is filmed from the side. However, I'm no film director. Wishing the Town Team every success.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The desire to commend all those involved for a thoroughly well done overhaul of the original attempt to attract this public funding to aid in the regeneration of Dover town grew and grew within me, right up to the point where the old dire footage of the local MP was re-included.
I hope that those who view this video, and who have a say in it's success, have their minds made-up before being reminded of the wrong-footed comments from CE.
A real leap forward, my congratulations to all those involved.
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Thanks very much, the video was put together by Colin Spicer who gave of his time and expertise completely free of charge, aided by his mate Bill.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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absolutely first class, congratulations to david and all involved in producing such a professional video.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Colin Spicer is a genius film-maker, he produced the 2-DVD set of Bygone Tilmanstone (village history) several years ago (copies still available), got a club award for his work, and sales have raised over £1,000 for Tilmanstone village hall and church.
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