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The NMC at Woodford Lane West
This post rounds up our series of posts about the history of the NMC and covers from 1990, the time when NMC took up residence to the present day. if you have memories of the NMC, please post them in the comments box below.
- 1993: NMC is registered as a charity
- 1994: The Duke of Gloucester visits to unveil NMC’s building extension
- 1996: NMC Lotto is launched and the first Spirit of Christmas carol concert is held at Chester Cathedral
- 1999: Kate Fox (Senior Physiotherapist and Co-founder of NMC) retires and Dan Cundall, Head of NMC Design+Print starts
- 2001: The first ever Gorgeous Grub event, which then ran for 14 years and raised in excess of £170k
- 2002: Our Graphic Designers go on a trip to London, a first for all involved
- 2005: Sarah Kelly, co-founder and Centre Director, retires and Matthew Lanham joins as CEO
- 2006: NMC starts doing social accounts
- 2007: Support worker role created (bringing together all the knowledge and experience that is available at NMC)
- 2008: NMC Design+Print wins Social Enterprise of the year
- 2009: NMC’s first Live in the Park event takes place at Arley Hall raising £36,400 and building work took place, creating a carers area, treatment room and meeting room
- 2010: The NMC appeared on the television programme Eggheads
- 2011: The NMC celebrates its 21st birthday and features on ITV’s Daybreak as part of their 'Pledge Your Time' day
- 2012: The paralympic flame comes to the centre and NMC became an independent charity
- 2014: New NMC Retreat constructed and launched
- 2017: NMC wins Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service and completed building extension work providing 70% more space
- 2018: Connect Up, a
project to tackle social isolation and loneliness, funded by Brightlife was
launched, 100+ attended the Power of Creativity, showcasing creative work and
sharing experiences and knowledge from within the NMC community and young
people from the NMC took part in the Duke of Edinburgh award for the first time
- 2019: The NMC
visited the British Music Experience in Liverpool and MediaCity in Salford and the
cricket world cup came to the NMC
- 2020: NMC celebrates its 30th birthday and 25 years of Spirit of Christmas, which to date has raised over £850,00
Lorraine Woolley says:
ReplyDeleteSomething I can tell you is that the side door in Training and Development was the original front door. The event space was a small kitchen with Sarah Kelly's Office in the corner. The original main office space ended near the side door and then there was a small bathroom/physio area. One of the physio beds and physio desk was actually overflowing into the main office. Lunchtime was chaos with no eating at your desk. There was a selection of tables every day that would dragged to the middle of the room and we all late lunch together. Probably about 12 people in total. It was amazing, cosy and we had some great laughs!
Reception was where Keith sat in Training and Development and that was my first job. I spent many a day doing letters and welcoming folk. The car park was tiny and had 10 spaces tops. I could go on all day and I just have so many memories and still have to pinch myself to believe what NMC is now.
Debbie Leather says:
ReplyDeleteMy first memories are from February 1991 and the physio department in a former mobile classroom, which is now training and the event space. The kitchen was at the far end (left hand side) where the fire exit door is, Sarah Kelly had her office in the right hand side. There was one treatment bed in the main area and another in the small area by the original bathroom which I think had a shower in it. There were only the three staff, Sarah Kelly, Kate Fox and Gordon. The only access was from the door (now in training) and you parked on the school playground!!