Future Radio at Chapelfield Open Market

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The Open Trade Network and Future Radio have teamed up with  Chapelfield Shopping Centre to put on a five day Open Market on Chapelfield Plain, outside the shopping centre under the big screen, to promote enterprise amongst young people in Norfolk and showcase local talent. 

Amal Douglas, Director of the Open Trade Network, explained that, “following exaggerated newspaper headlines about gang warfare on the streets of Norwich, it has resulted in numbers of youths who last summer would normally congregate in the Jenny Lind park, being forced to look for new places to meet and finally settling on a new haunt outside the Chapelfield Shopping Centre. Subsequent meetings to discuss the results of the police tactics, the behaviour of the young people and the impact on others, including the shopping centre, led to this initiative being proposed by the Open Trade Network and immediately Davina Tanner the Manager of Chapelfield added her support in order to make the space available as did Dawn Jackson and Tom Buckham the Future Projects, and Anne Matin from the Norwich & Norfolk Racial Equality Council (NNREC).”

The event runs from Wednesday 24th June and finishes on Sunday 28th June and will be open throughout the day at the same times as the shopping centre. All stallholders will be encouraged to give young people a chance to learn the ropes of commerce and work alongside traders. Young people will also be involved in setting up the stalls and the day to day running of the event. Also on site will be Future Radio’s “Sound Box,” a portable trailer with audio equipment and laptops with the latest software which will be available for youngsters to turn up and just have  a go under supervision, or attend one of the structured classes on using Reason music software and how to make and edit a movie. Some youngsters will also get the chance of a behind-the-scenes look at how the shopping centre works but will need to book in advance.